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Friday, January 27, 2006

In Defense of Reality

Moacir, I think I speak for many when I say this: Stop complaining like a little girl when you don't get your way. We are getting tired of it.

I think a lot of this comes down to many of us not wanting a league predicated on stats that don't make any sense. I agree that the vote may have been a little premature, but it was designed to gauge people's assumptions and feelings, not for a hard and fast resolution. So stop spitting your hate, it's getting old. You realize that you are becoming the villain now, right? I didn't think you could strip that away from Omar, but you're almost there. No wonder Whet doesn't read this any more.

Second, not that we are going to do it for sure, but are you honestly saying you'd be completely pissed off with a standard 5x5? There's a reason that it's become such a standard. Trying to have pitchers with "OUTS" (think about it. In a innings capped league, all the outs are gonna be the same at the end of the season) and other nonsense stats is also going to harm the league as well. Only your way people will feel better about themselves because they will think that they reinvented baseball.

Basically, I just want a set of stats that we can all reasonably agree on, not the ones that you think best determine the fundamentals of baseball. I could get down with a Carter-style skeleton framework or anything that seems to sooth people's minds. Still, if people can't learn to compromise than what's the point?

I liked it much more when people were actually talking about the merrits of different stats rather than complaining that the system is unjust.

1 comment:

mikecard said...

i just don't want us to mess around too much just for the sake of being different. i thought 2 qbs was stupid and was overthinking what fantasy football is supposed to be, and i still think it was a horrible set-up for the league. a third of the league stop playing about halfway through, and there were multiple complaints about the fact that we had to start two quarterbacks from people who originally supported it. at the time i kept quiet and didn't play the "i told you so card". i guess my point is that i'd rather people stay interested than try to come up with stat categories and roster spots that don't even make sense. like having pitching categories like outs and having both slugging and total bases on offense. does everyone know what slugging and total bases measure? do we need to have a stats tutorial?