but I already run a league that has similar scoring in head-to-head format. So, I’ll have to think about it…

I’m full on my first Yahoo ID, but I have a second ID specifically for fantasy baseball leagues totalling more than 4. If one of my buddies gets his league running, I’ll have enough motivation to check the 2nd ID enough to field a competitive team. So, yeah, if you get enough players, I’m in.

:D

Because it’s pretty much the same thing in term sof runs..

And then I’m going to start advertising at BtB and the recent fantasy bb thread at The Book Blog. So if interested, please reserve your spot this weekend. ;)
-j

im in Slyde’s league, but i so thoroughly dominated it last year that i doubt it will be any fun for me. maybe this one will be more competitive :)

Emailing you now
d

but i mean i suck at regular fantasy baseball, which i play against other idiots. I would hate to play against an expert…

I like the scoring and the 20 team thing sounds interesting.

Now I just need to find some time to pre-rank 400 players.

Why does your league not like catchers?

I do not yet have e-mails for bubbaroo and kcgard2. If you’re still interested, please drop me a line: justin@basement-dwellers.com

There are seven spots remaining: first come, first served!

Cheers,
Justin

Me me me. Killer bees

I put together a spreadsheet that shows our current scoring system’s points for all 2009 players here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t6R6FIkpXQXcxLb6-iPi8 4g&output=html

This is the first time I’ve done this, but the guys at the top were largely not surprises.

However, I’m concerned about the number of players that are showing up as negative contributers. I count 15 players with more than 350 PA’s last season as negative value players. Here’s the position breakdown:
C 5
1B 0
2B 0
3B 2
SS 6
LF 0
CF 1
RF 1

The lack of any recognition of fielding value (position adjustments, fielding runs saved, etc), beyond ability to fill a position slot, really hurts us with SS’s and C’s. In the case of those players on this list, it would be better to plug an injured or demoted AAA player into the lineup than let these guys play. That, to me, doesn’t seem like a fun way to field a fantasy team. Granted, with only 20 teams, folks should be able to find better options. But there’s a lot of guys at the ~0 point level too.

What I’m thinking about doing is adjusting the scoring from the current “replacement-level” scheme to something that more closely resembles an “absolute runs” scheme. So, instead of team point totals for hitters approximating runs above replacement, we could instead have them approximate overall runs scored.

This would be fairly easy to do for hitters. The issue is it will greatly increase hitter point totals, which means a similar adjustment needs to be done for pitchers. I’ll get back to you as soon as possible on this, but I think I can work out something that will make sense and work for us.

Sorry for not noticing this beforehand.
Justin

I posted this in the league, but in case anyone else out there is thinking of joining but wanted to see how this was going to work, here you go:

Ok, as per my earlier message, there were some problems with the previous scoring system. Most importantly, there were a large number of negative players, which might have often made it a better option to replace an injured starter with, for example, a guy who was not playing MLB at the time than with someone who actually was playing…but just wasn’t very good. That, to me, is not a fun way to play this game.

So, here is the new scoring system that I propose that we should use:

Hitters:
AB -1
H +6
2B +3
3B +6
HR +9
BB +3
SB +2
CS -3

Pitchers
IP +5
K +2
BB -3
HR -13
SV +6
Hold +2

The hitter points, at least, will come close to a player’s actual wRC*10, so it’s grounded in reality. If you like, you can essentially take your team’s hitter point totals, divide by 10, and you’ll have an estimate for how many runs your team would likely have scored had those players actually played together. Neat, right?

Pitcher points…well, I can’t claim they’re as grounded. But pitchers will accumulate comparable totals to hitters, the rankings look intuitive to me, and we’re focusing on things a pitcher can explicitly control (it’s tied to both FIP and innings pitched totals).

Very few players have negative scores in this system—even Willy Taveras!—so it will always be better to have someone playing than no one playing. It will be up to us to find the best replacement we can for our starters when they go down.

I’ve updated the spreadsheet to show 2009 totals for both hitters and pitchers under this scheme. I think the rankings are intuitive and make sense.
http://tinyurl.com/ybhs9el

Unless there are objections, this is the point system that I’d like to use moving forward.

Time to get my working on my draft lists! :)

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2010/2/16/1312618/sabermetric-fantasy-baseball-anyone

We’re up to 18 of 20!

If you have already received an invite e-mail, I’d appreciate it if you would log in and create a team so I know you are still interested. Bubbaroo, if you’re interested, I still need contact info from you so I can send you the league info. If I don’t have that info by mid-week, I may give someone else take your slot.

Cheers,
Justin