i think we have two camps here. some of us have tired of the stat debate and just want something set in order to start thinking about the draft. others want to try to come up with some new stat combinations and want to see how that would play out over a full season. like czap said, i think the problem we're running into here is the attachment to a 5X5 system. neither side is going to be happy if we go with four traditional stats and putouts on offense. i'm not saying that these non-traditional stat categories aren't interesting or useful to think about. rather, i think trying to crossbreed traditional and non-traditional stats can work; it just probably can't work in a 5X5 format. i think many of us think it's just too risky to try new stat categories that might flop in a league that has a six month long season. maybe we could do a 6X6 like last year (or even a 7X7, but i think the more categories, the harder it is to have any cohesive strategy down the stretch run). we could do six offensive categories like H, R, TB, HR, K (or GIDP or whatever), SB. pitching could be W, SV, K, TB (or L or whatever), WHIP, ERA. these are just ideas, but i think in order to make everyone happier and to make the league more interesting statistically, we might need to lose the elegant symmetry and go for a broader system.
p.s., two qbs still sucks though.
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i'll grant notional assent to this. it's obviously going to be easier to convince, say, me, to go along with having wins or saves when i get one of my stats tacked on. i do like the prettiness of 10 teams, 10 stats, 100 pts, etc, but it doesn't matter for anything other than pixelated aesthetics. does anyone have a serious problem with having more than 10 total categories? i can't see what trouble it would cause, other than having an extra column on your spreadsheet.
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