ben, your future-posting is fucking everything up. also re: whatif baseball. i think the problem is that you think you have made a team, but you don't have 25 players and your team isn't done. go sign 2004 cesar izturis for 1.3 million and we can start our league.
glad to see that we're starting the stats debate early this year. though without moacir on the blog, the true plate throwing can't begin. let me throw my hat into the ring:
HITTING:
hits, home runs, rbi, slg, obp, sb + negative rate stat.* ideally RC could be a stat but i doubt yahoo can do that.
PITCHING:
era, whip, k, saves, tb + some others? problems: 1) i'd rather not have wins, either, but we need something to replace wins, unless we want to intentionally unbalance the categories and slightly devalue pitching for the draft. 2) i don't know how many other good categories there are. combining obp and slg into straight ops might help this problem.
*negative hitting stats really ought to be rate stats since there isn't an inning maximum. i think we talked about this last year so i'm not going to beat a dead bush.
i plan on being out of the country for some time this summer so i'm probably a bad comish. before we crown one people should think about travel plans.
10th player: coates? if having somewhat outdated views of baseball are an informal requirement for being in our league, he's as good a choice as any.
i want a keeper league. how many slots would we keep? any penalty in draft picks the next year?
pete i would be game for having a bastard child second league that was done via auction. possibly the auction could be had while we were drinking after the draft. that'd be a better auction. how do you decide the order of players to be auctioned? it'd be really awkward to start with paul byrd or something and just stand around looking at each other.
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that's the genius/gza of auctions -- there's a traditional draft order, but it's just the order you nominate guys for. like last year, when i was in an auction league with like four mets fans, i nominated jose reyes first because i thought they would run him up to like $30 because they liked him. what i didn't realize is that even mets fans know jose reyes sucks, so i almost wound up getting him for $5. anyway, it's another dimension of strategy -- not only do you have to know who to pay a lot for and who not to, but you have to realize who's left. because people will fight each other for midrange guys and then someone winds up getting a really good played for $20 bucks or something. what i don't want to do is have a salary cap or tie auction values to a salary cap. because it's not my fault if someone decided to pay $75 for barry bonds. anyway, we might be entrenched too much in drafting to ever switch this league over, but auctions are a lot more fun, take a lot more time, and frankly, provide a better venue for proving you are better at fantasy baseball than other people. also, the long-standing problem of people not paying attention to their turn being up at the draft is rectified. i'm just saying is all.
also, forget HR as a stat, can we? it's weird to have something that already impacts your hits, OBP, slugging pct, OPS, total bases, whatever, added again as a separate stat category. this is one thing i really want to change. i propose total bases instead of home runs.
what if the negative hitting stat was just "outs"? no one's going to give up on the other counting stats by benching their whole team ...
an idea:
batting:
Hits
TB
Outs
SB
OBP
SLG
pitching:
Earned Runs
K
BB
Saves
ERA
WHIP
this definitely makes drafting walk-happy pitchers a BAD idea.
i like the idea that someone could build a decent pitching performance if they had just 10 good setup relief pitchers with good rates stats who struck out a lot of guys.
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