One of our best days ever for SPs yesterday: 7 starts, 118 points, an average of 16.86 FPPG.
That on the heels of yesterday, one of our worst days ever, with only 32 points in 9 starts, a mere 3.56 FPPG.
Very little movement in the standings yesterday, with only JG (64) and CC (24) flip-flopping between 4th and 5th place.
Everyone with at least a "decent" score yesterday (except for the slumping CC's 24 and PL's 4), as tallies ranged from 38 to 67, with 4 players (DJ, TM, JG, & DB) notching 61 or better (of course you could say that DB's high score was due mostly to the fact that he didn't have any SPs going yesterday :p )
Special mention, though, to DB's Chase Utley, the third player this year (along with DB's Albert Pujols and DJ's Troy Glaus) to have an offensive game of 15 points or better.
Note: Certain elements of the following may come under the heading of a whine (because I got hit with a -23 from Jenks last night on a blown save and a loss); I'm not sure. Anyway.....
Probably the only thing that I can honestly say that I'm not happy with in the scoring system - and this has been mentioned before - is the fact that a relief pitcher, when blowing a save and ultimately taking the loss, can wind up with a higher minus total than a starter who gets bombed and knocked out of the game after only an inning or two.
Now, I would argue that it's considerably more devastating to a team when their closer comes in leading 3-1 or something, and gives up 3 runs in the ninth, and blows the save and takes the loss (and winds up with a fantasy score of minus 23 or so) than a game where the starter leaves the game losing 5-0 after 1.1 IPs or so, and takes the loss at the end (and winds up with the same minus 23)....
BUT, there is just something that seems "wrong" about that - I just can't express exactly what it is that I think is wrong (maybe someone would like to put in their .02? Feel free. I'm not looking for agreement, like "yeah, it's wrong", but for the reason why it just instinctively seems to not make sense.
I know that a few weeks ago when the question first came up I said I was gonna look at last year and see how many games there were in which a closer blew a save, took a loss, and wound up with a big minus total, and I actually did start such a study which I got about half way through.
So, what I'm gonna do is try and complete that little exercise, and then go back to the beginning of this season (and I better do it soon, because I haven't been tracking anything at all about RPs, and if I wait much longer it's gonna be way too much of a pain in the ass to go back and assemble all the necessary data) and start keeping track of the "worst" relief appearances.
As has been correctly pointed out several times already, we're all playing under the sames rules, but a Blown Save/Loss situation by a closer which leads to a score from, say, -15 to -25 or so is largely, I think, a matter of luck.
I mean the "best" closers may only be in that situation maybe 3 times in a season, while the "worst" closers may blow a save and take the loss only 6 times, but that difference of three times (which, as I said, is completely unpredictable, I think) has the enormous impact of affecting our final point totals at the end of the season by anywhere from 60-80 points, which is a large enough spread - we're not talking about 3 or 4 points here - to make a difference.
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