new old kind of science

i already published this sentiment in andy's post as a comment but i want to reiterate it: i'm fine with having RBIs return (this is like reactionary ffball -- like how after WWI people basically were like, america is never fighting in a european war again). i know it's not sabermetric, but RBIs are fuxoring the only good indicator of how many people scored after your hits. also, i'm still sore about basically having to cut pat burrell in september last year because RBIs didn't count. i'd rather have RBI be the anti-sabermetric dinosaur stat instead of HRs. i'm sick of having HRs as a stat. if hits count, SLG% or AVG or OBP or OPS count, or if Total Bases count, there's no reason to have HRs as a stat. it's silly and it overvalues guys who are already valued pretty highly.

stats i think we should look at:
for batters
Total Bases
RBI
Hits
Stolen bases
some two out of SLG, OB% OPS

my wildcard throwaway: K/AB as a negative stat for batters

for pitchers
K
BB
Losses
Saves
WHIP
ERA

wildcard stats: Earned Runs as a neg counting stat. K/9 IP. Having IP as the counting stat that replaces Wins -- because, if you think about it, they're related. Earned Runs could be an option. I'd like to make relief pitchers, all of them, slightly more valuable, and i think ER might help with that. with this system, you can devise a way that you might be able to field a decent pitching lineup with only one or two "ace" starters.

i have a spreadsheet that i made with all of the scoring from my other league already typed in, at least for the 200some hitters and 100some pitchers from that league. there's no way to import that sheet into our league's scoring system, but if anyone wants to mess around with it, i will e-mail it to them. short version of what it showed is that in a league where your IP are important, Brandon Webb is the 18th best starter in baseball. and that chipper jones, when he played last year, was a tank. and for reference, this league was on yahoo, so you can do stats like this in a free league.

top hitters by [ Hits + 1.66*(TB) + 2(BB + HBP) + SB - "Outs'] (outs = AB-H+CS)

LEE, Derrek	CHN	638.4
RODRIGUEZ, Alex	NYY	626.5
PUJOLS, Albert	STL	622.6
ORTIZ, David	BOS	566.6
BAY, Jason	PIT	533.1
TEIXIERA, Mark	TEX	528.2
HELTON, Todd	COL	501.5
RAMIREZ, Manny	BOS	497.1
CABRERA, Miguel	FLA	483
DELGADO, Carlos	FLA	474
YOUNG, Mike	TEX	468.4
ABREU, B	PHI	467.1
HAFNER, T	CLE	465.7
THOME, J (2004)	PHI	465.7
GILES, Brian	SD	465.6
ROLEN, Scott (2004)	STL	455.3
GUERRERO, Vladimir	ANA	448
DUNN, Adam	CIN	447.1
JONES, Andruw	ATL	441.4
GIAMBI, Jason	NYY	433.2
WRIGHT, D	NYM	430.7
ENSBERG, Morgan	HOU	427.4
JETER, D	NYY	423
KONERKO, Paul	CHA	422.6
BURRELL, Pat	PHI	421.8
ROBERTS, Brian	BAL	421.7

top pitchers by [Saves + K - BB - HBP + 2.75*IP - 4.5*ER)

CLEMENS Roger		503.1
SANTANA, Johan	MIN	496.2
CARPENTER Chris		481.7
PETTITTE A	HOU	472.8
MARTINEZ, Pedro	NYM	447.8
OSWALT R		437.2
PEAVY, Jake	SD	424.8
HARDEN, Rich	OAK	414.5
WILLIS, Dontrelle	FLA	401.3
SMOLTZ, J	ATL	395.7
BUEHRLE, Mark	CWS	386.9
ZAMBRANO, Carlos	CHN	356.8
PATTERSON, John	WAS	349.8
JOHNSON, Randy	NYY	345.2
MILLWOOD, K	CLE	343.5
COLON, Bartolo	ANA	336.4
WEBB, B	ARI	335.8
LACKEY John		331.8
BURNETT AJ		326.8
MYERS, Brett	PHI	320.6
HALLADAY, Roy	TOR	301.7
LOAIZA, E	WAS	300.3
LOWE, Derek		296.0
DAVIS Doug		295.9