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[joethejet]

Ratings. Well, here they are. Take a look and let me know what you think. These are the current ratings so if you made a lot of changes, your team was probably rated higher before and that might be a reason that you're doing better than your rating (for now)

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Team O P F P+F Overall Div
Roadrun 7896 5039 596 5636 2261 W
Gibralt 7442 5025 414 5439 2003 C
PasquoP 8356 5648 727 6375 1981 C
Calvary 7421 4999 508 5507 1914 W
GreatLk 8029 5247 922 6169 1860 E
YoungGn 7372 5143 411 5554 1818 C
SixGunC 7452 5005 671 5676 1775 W
Fidrych 8234 5750 738 6488 1746 E
Wndrlan 7722 5025 1015 6039 1683 E
Montgmy 7216 4739 817 5556 1660 C
Flushin 7400 4946 901 5847 1552 E
DBStars 7219 5115 823 5938 1281 W

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By the ratings, Roadrunners appear to be the class of the league and should run away with their division although Calvary may hang around for awhile. Gibraltar and Pasquo aren't too far back in terms of ratings and it should be a close race in the Central betweent those two. The East in general isn't rated too high. The Birds are majorly overperforming what you'd think primarily because their pitcing and D have been better than what should be expected. According to the ratings, the Birds should be allowing more runs than any team in the league. So far they've dodged that distinction. Great lakes, with good hitting and horrid fielding should be the best team in that division, but the lousy fielding may be taking it's toll. But, given that the Birds and Great Lakes are close in ratings, you would expect that also to be a fairly close race. I'm not sure that the Birds will continue their 11-2 one run game record for the balance of the season.

For the WC, the ratings say will be one of Gibraltar, Calvary and Pasquo.

Given that, Flushing and Wonderland are now operating > $4 mil under the cap, you might see one of the other East teams slip into the WC.

Montgomery and Young Guns are > $3 mil and Six guns is $4.5 under. Tough to compete when you're working with a $75 mil cap.

Dubois has far and away the lowest rating. They actually could be better, but I don't think they're putting their best players on the field on a routine basis.

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Team Ov Ovrl Rtg Rec Dif
Roadrun 2261 1 2 -1 W
Gibralt 2003 3 3 0 C
PasquoP 1981 3 5 -2 C
Calvary 1914 4 6 -2 W
GreatLk 1860 5 8 -3 E
YoungGn 1818 6 7 -1 C
SixGunC 1775 7 12 -5 W
Fidrych 1746 7 1 6 E
Wndrlan 1683 8 5 3 E
Montgmy 1660 8 8 0 C
Flushin 1552 9 6 3 E
DBStars 1281 12 11 1 W
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The Overall ratings are pretty close with Six Gun under and Birds over.

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Team Of O Rtg Run Dif
PasquoP 8356 1 1 0 C
Fidrych 8234 2 2 0 E
GreatLk 8029 4 7 -3 E
Roadrun 7896 5 3 2 W
Wndrlan 7722 7 7 0 E
SixGunC 7452 8 10 -2 W
Gibralt 7442 8 6 2 C
Calvary 7421 9 9 0 W
Flushin 7400 10 8 2 E
YoungGn 7372 10 10 0 C
DBStars 7219 12 9 3 W
Montgmy 7216 12 9 3 C

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Offensively the ratings are very, very close with the Invaders a little under, but nothing that can't change pretty quick.

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Team PF P+F Rtg Run Dif
Gibralt 5439 1 2 -1 C
Calvary 5507 2 4 -2 W
YoungGn 5554 3 6 -3 C
Montgmy 5556 3 7 -4 C
Roadrun 5636 5 6 -1 W
SixGunC 5676 5 8 -3 W
Flushin 5847 6 1 5 E
DBStars 5938 7 11 -4 W
Wndrlan 6039 8 1 7 E
GreatLk 6169 9 6 3 E
PasquoP 6375 11 8 3 C
Fidrych 6488 12 7 5 E

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A little more variation in the Pitching+Fielding which I chalk up, mostly, to the lousy defensive teams in the league. Monty and Dubious should be better and while the Birds, Wonderland and Flushin are over performing. I'm sure Wonderland's atrocious fielding is making him pay.

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Team Ov Ovrl Rtg Run Dif Dif
Roadrun 2261 1 4 -3 W
Gibralt 2003 3 1 2 C
PasquoP 1981 3 1 2 C
Calvary 1914 4 7 -3 W
GreatLk 1860 5 7 -2 E
YoungGn 1818 6 9 -3 C
SixGunC 1775 7 11 -4 W
Fidrych 1746 7 1 6 E
Wndrlan 1683 8 4 4 E
Montgmy 1660 8 10 -2 C
Flushin 1552 9 6 3 E
DBStars 1281 12 12 0 W
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Run differentials are pretty close with wonderland and Birds over and Six gun under.

[joethejet]

Yeah, it's hard to improve with cuts. Your rating isn't all that bad, it's just a pitching team primarily.

Your biggest problem is that you have 4 "dead" spots in your lineup v RHP with Kendall, Atkins, LuGo and Theriot, plus Ichiro has NO power, not just HRs, but almost all singles and he's weak so all those HRs of pitcher cards in the HR parks are also singles. Your lineup isn't much better v LHP.

No one else has a comment or question? Come on guys, tell me why your team is better that it rates, or tell me I'm right, or ask me why the rating is what it is!!! :) 8-)

Jet
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[boyer14]

My ratings (Pasquo Pumpers) came out just about where I thought they might - strong offense, OK defense, and weaker in pitching. That's how I tried to set it up. Since I play in a hitter's park I am hoping that this all works to my favor. Early on this season I seem to be winning better than average in away games, sometimes a problem for me when I try to favor the home park so much. It is always good to see the team among the top 4 in rankings - a legit chance for a wild card at least! Some of my guys are prone to injury which can bring me down sometimes.
Doug

[joethejet]

[quote:39014a04d9="Aray0113"]after seeing the ratings for my team: since I've got a pitching-oriented team, I needed better defense, especially on the left side of the field. I took a big chance and dropped Theriot, Atkins, and Kendall for Jack Wilson, Rod Barajas and Mark Teahen. Amezaga and Hu can back up Wilson when he goes down with an injury.

The slight upgrade at 3B and better defense at SS should help; besides, my projections seem to mirror most of my other teams: I see more LHB against my RHP, while I tend to see more RHP against my hitters -- don't quite know why this happens to me, but it's a tendency that I need to take advantage of more.

The upgrade in defense at SS should help my pitching staff, but if I don't start scoring runs, this will only be temporary, right?[/quote:39014a04d9]

Moves help your rating, but not your offensive rating cuz it goes down so much v LHP. But, it did go up slightly v RHP. D took a huge leap forward (at least when Wilson is healthy!)

Jet
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[boyer14]

Jet,
Sorry about that comment on Oliver Perez earlier - I didn't mean to jinx him. He's lost his last two games and ERA is up over 3. Let me try one more, but in the opposite direction. How can Hanley Ramirez be hitting only .224?? He is a real star of this set. The .224 cannot last long. When I have been able to get him in leagues he sometimes leads the team in both runs scored and RBIs (and I usually try to get some big offensive players to play with him).
Doug

[joethejet]

Hey Doug,

No worries. Oliver was bound to come down to Earth. Just faced some teams that rip LHP. Had him on QH, but it wasn't quick enough!

Hopefully Hanley will come around when some of the other guys cool off. Not too worried about it honestly.

Jet
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[joethejet]

Well, Wilson is about 50% more likely to turn a double play and Hu will give up a hit 10% of the SSx (not counting the hits that come after the missed DP or out) while Wilson will give up none. (This when not holding or in)

Wilson will make an error about 5% of the time, Hu 3.7% of the time.

In terms of your team's "fielding rating", it goes from 282 with Wilson (when he's healthy) to 371 with Hu.

The final thing to consider, if you're asking Hal to pull Wilson, you're ahead in the game so, do you want to jeopardize that?

Given that, at most, you're saving one AB, I'm not sure it's worth it.

Jet