I'm glad he went to a good home. :p

I certainly agree that it might work a lot for you, plaw, but I also feel that it will certainly take away a lot of the fun in the game(s).

I used to love to check these boards every morning and it was almost like a newspaper featuring a league where I play.

now that I see your reasoning I believe you are not going to do that again, so at least tell me: do you get all the stats from that 'full standings' link?

PL. Your mailbox is full. ....again

I can't help it if I'm popular....one sec.


OK....got rid of some of my fan mail.

It's funny about Posada.....

When I saw him available, I was definitely gonna pick him up.

I remember saying to myself how valuable a catcher is in this game who you can predict with 95%+ certainty when he's gonna play.

I was gonna do a little research to figure out which of my catchers i wanted to drop, got sidetracked with something else, and forgot all about it.

I just started tracking some stats and I already know the answer: NO

that does not separate the strikeouts of starters and relievers, for instance. is there somewhere where (is that correct writting???) I can find the stats altogether? or do I have to go pitcher by pitcher?

I was separating the SP and RP stats myself - the site does not provide that information.

I'm glad that you understand my reasoning and logic in not wanting to post all of the stuff I was posting, TM.

I'm a real stat-hound as you know, and I enjoyed not only doing it, but reading it myself as well.

But as you've already agreed, posting that information makes it considerably easier, I think, for the other players in the game.

I do understand but I definitely do not agree. like I said, it takes away the fun.

I disagree, too, but you could at least do Baseball Challenge standings now and then, no? :p

Oh, Douchebag...

You know I love Ryan Howard so that's how you got my attention, even tho I already have rusty D Lee and J K*nt. But you want me to take an AL East SP, my .391-hitting catcher and Plaw's favorite SP?? And how many sCrUBS do you think 1 fantasy team can handle? :p

Thanks for the reply. If you got any counter offers, let me know.

Here's what I'll do...hopefully, at least, a bit of a happy medium....

I'll do yesterdays's scores, and indicate how many offensive players and SPs were used, so you get an idea of the "value" of your score in relation to everyone else's.

I'll also post the raw point totals.

For any other info, you can look it up yourself.

How's that?

However....I will be away from tomorrow until Monday, 7/17, and I will have limited computer access, so I can't promise this every day for now.

Wednesday
Raw Point Totals
Analysis: JG vs. PL

Teeny-tiny - maybe one point - edge for JG yesterday. He gained 15 points in the raw total, but also used a pitching start that PL didn't use. PL's average is about 14 FPPG on his starts, so JG maybe gains a point or so on the projections.

Plaw, will you still be posting the cumulative number of SPs used?

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I could, but I think I'd prefer that everyone find that out for themselves and be responsible for it themselves.

For everyone's information, if they don't already know....

If you go to the link at the top of your page called, I think, "Team Log", and click on your team, you'll get all of the players who were ever on your team at any point during the season - even if they are not on your team any longer - along with the points they scored for you in each category.

So just go down the column for Games Started ("GS") in the Pitcher's Section, and add up all of your starts.

You can also scroll down from that Team Log window to someone else's team, and figure out another player's starts (and other stats) as well.

Or, even easier....

On our league's home page, just click on "Full Standings", right where they give the raw point totals, and you can see everyone's totals in every stat category.

I couldn't help remembering the "Andruw Jones July Hitting" discussion today when I ran across his monthly splits for this season until tonight.

of course, that only includes 18 July At Bats, and of course, Andruw Jones just hit a HR and had 4 RBI today. in fact, I was only looking for a reason to diss plaw after he renounced his 'neutral comissioner' persona and became a competitive freak.

Nice little game tonite for Chris "plaw-offered-him-to-everyone-in-a-trade-but-no-one-wanted-him" Capuano.

JG, you're toast.

I had my best nite on offense in more than a month, and I'm rolling now.


Don't you know by now what happens as soon as you start playing me for money?
:p

I'm almost happy, to see PL this happy. :p

How sweet of you JL.

How happy you gonna be when I catch you? :p

A knife to my heart, TM.... a knife to my heart.

When it comes to decisions that effect the game or the players, I am always 100% impartial, and would never make a decision based on my own self interest.

But as far as giving out information that helps the other plays go, especially after I'm the one who digs up the information.....

Of course I have to be competitive. I'm playing, aren't I?
:p

You're still almost 300 points back, so you don't have my attention yet.

....And you have my final offer for Carpenter.

Don't get too excited. It was against the Cubs. Osawalt threw a complete game against them the night before too. The Cubs need to start from scratch. They really are horrible.

Please.....

Don't make me start with anothe discussion about the valuelessness of the raw point totals.

I have, I think, about 10 pitching starts and 40 odd offensive games in hand compared to you.

You want to think that that you have a 300 point lead on me, go right ahead.

Maybe it will lull you into a false sense of security.

(Didn't I say that somewhere else to someone else already?)

As far as Carpenter goes, I think if you hade made me that offer yesterday I would've accepted it.

It's actually a fair trade for a change, and one I had to take seriously.

Capuano showed me what he can do tonite. If tonite's start was crap, you might've rescinded the offer, but if his next start is crap I'd probably be willling to do it but you wouldn't.

More importantly, though, the way I figure it is I lose more points by replacing Dunn at 1B with Johnson or in LF with Burrell than I would gain by replacing Capuano with Carpenter.

And since I've been using Feliz at 3B, I don't see much of a difference between him and Atkins.

Who's delusional?? Gimme the 300 pts lead any day! Who's to say your extra 10 pitching starts are gonna be any good?? You think Cap is gonna give you 41 pts every time out?? I know who's delusional now... :p :rolleyes:

And if you're 40 games back in offense, then good luck making them up!

Raw points are EVERYTHING. THAT is what determines the winner. You either have them (like JL & myself) or you don't (like you). :p

1- My 10 extra starts could be worth nothing, and they could be worth 200+ points. We have no way of knowing.

That's what makes it a projection.

But what so you think they're worth?

If you have a 40 point lead on someone, and they have 10 extra starts coming, most of them from Guys like Halladay and Santana and Capuano, are you gonna tell me that you think your 40 point lead is gonna hold up?

Where do you draw the line?

Based on what my pitcher have been averaging, I figure those ten starts are worth about 140 points.

Surely they're worth something, so how can someone with a 300 point lead think they really have a 300 point lead if I have 10 extra starts coming?

You're being a little silly if you do, don't 'ya think?

You said Gimme the 300 pts lead any day!

So you'd rather have a 300 point lead than have my SPs with, say, 30 starts in hand?

(I don't expect to make up my raw pointsdeficit just from the 10 starts, you know)

Whether I would rather have the lead in raw points, or the extra starts depends on how many points the lead is and how many starts are involved.

2- As far as the 40 games that I have to make up in offense goes, the way I have it figured it's not gonna be a problem.

I'm not gonna tell you why I don't think it should be a problem because it involves a bit of strategy and I don't want to give you any ideas, but take my word for it.

BTW, I said that I was 40 games behibd JL in offensive games. For all I know - since I didn't check - he may be way ahead of himself at every position, and in reality I may be only 20 games behind him.\

Raw points are EVERYTHING. THAT is what determines the winner. You either have them (like JL & myself) or you don't (like you). :p

Um, yeah, we know that.

But the season ends in October, not next week.

As I've said enough times already, if you really believe - and I know you don't, because you're not a stupid man - that the lead you or JL has in raw points represents what your actual lead is, then this is a pointless discussion since I'm obviously overestimating you. :p

Oh.....I forgot to mention.....

I picked up a really neat voodoo doll of Jason Schmidt the other day:

[img]http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:DHeOP7lLOBoAGM:www.carnivalia.com/obscure[/img]

It came with instructions, too.

Two pins a day, and four pins on the day he starts.

Also, going into last nite I had 17 starts in hand against you.

I figured that at my average of about 14 FPs per start, they were worth about 238 points.

After Capuano's 41 though, I only need about 12.3 FPs per start to make up 238 points.

Progress.



You're toast, man. I'm telling you....

Sheesh. The guy has one good SP night, and all of a sudden he's all that {{snaps fingers}} :rolleyes: :p

P.S. If anyone trades PL any decent SP for any reason whatsoever, they're on my shitlist! :p

Whatsamatta?

You didn't like this format?

You want to take over the job?

Why should I have to wait interminably, when I don't even know if you'll actually produce or not. Besides, they're two different ways of doing it - they're complementary. :p