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[Lawrence of Arabia]

LoA - I think you must have made a mistake reading the stats last year, I don't remember any problem with infinity and composite stats and I was paying attention. I suppose we could avoid composite stats, at least as much as possible. We could have Hits allowed, BB's and K's instead of WHIP, K/BB, and K/9 inn.

nah i remeber getting the shaft last year because I had David Wells who walks like 1 guy for every 20 Ks and the K/BB stat would be consistently off because 9 K/ 0 BB = 0 and instead of adding all the Ks and BBs up and then dividing, they would do the fractions and then add, which give syou messed up stats.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I had David Wells who walks like 1 guy for every 20 Ks and the K/BB stat would be consistently off because 9 K/ 0 BB = 0

They'd make it INF, not 0.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Okay, my preferences for stats:

Hitting (9 total):
R
RBI
TB
SB
HR
SLG
OBP
BA
BB (no Times on Base? )

Pitching (8 total):
W
L
SV
HLD
K/9
TB allowed
ERA
WHIP

My theory... we have 20 roster spots total. I'll assume 11 are hitters, 9 are pitchers. The Win Shares system assumes that baseball is 48% offense, 52% defense. 11*.48/9*.52=1.12=~9/8. Therefore 9 hitting, 8 pitching. BS method, I know.

Roster changes: Weekly on Mondays
Minimum IP: 15/week

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Blah. All these years without a DP...

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Win Shares system assumes that baseball is 48% offense, 52% defense. 11*.48/9*.52=1.12=~9/8. Therefore 9 hitting, 8 pitching. BS method, I know.

Indeed, but I like you methodology .

I like your catagories, but I'd probably take out BB (OBP covers that) and Hld (damn useless stat ).

no Times on Base?

Well OBP measures that .

[jdd2007]

Prefs:




Batters

Hits (H)
Doubles (2B)
Home Runs (HR)
Runs Batted In (RBI)
Stolen Bases (SB)
Walks (BB)
Strikeouts (K) (If we have walks, we need to have strikeouts too)
Total Bases (TB)
Fielding Percentage (FPCT)
Batting Average (AVG)
On-base + Slugging Percentage (OPS)

Pitchers

Innings Pitched (IP)
Wins (W)
Losses (L)
Saves (SV)
Home Runs (HR)
Strikeouts (K)
Total Bases Allowed (TB)
Earned Run Average (ERA)
(Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP)
Strikeouts per Walk Ratio (K/BB)

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

no Times on Base?

Well OBP measures that .

We have TB and SLG. By that logic, one of the two is redundant. ( well, sorta)

Though I agree with you that if I had to cut two categories, it'd be walks and holds...

[Imran Siddiqui]

I also am intrigued by the Fielding Percentage catagory, though I fear that would mean DH's would be severly undervalued (they'll always score 0 on that). Maybe that'll take the place of TB or SLG, but it's a BIG tradeoff.

[Imran Siddiqui]

bump

[SlowwHand]

DH sucks.

[Imran Siddiqui]

True, but they do exist.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

instead of fielding percentage, why dont you just have errors?

[SlowwHand]

In half of baseball, for a relatively short time, they exist.
Makes no difference to me, as far as the setup of this league goes.

When's the draft?

[Imran Siddiqui]

instead of fielding percentage, why dont you just have errors?

Because errors doesn't take into account how many chances they get AND gives DH's a decided advantage (they'll never make an error making them worth that much more).

When's the draft?

When we set up all the rules . Hopefully I want to start it, at the latest on March 1st.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Because errors doesn't take into account how many chances they get AND gives DH's a decided advantage (they'll never make an error making them worth that much more).

And excellent point.