Hitter's "balance"

[tersignf]

I change my team a million times too and it does get crazy during preseason--
but only because other folks keep changing theirs and I see new and better combinations become available :lol:

I wouldn't be so paranoid about change if everyone would stop trying to beat me
:P

[1crazycanuk]

LOL yeah, I hear ya. :lol:

Well, the only CF available with a 1 is Hunter. I have Pierre at CF. So it would be better for me to have Loretta DH than Manny and maybe move Ford over to RF? Sounds good. I do have Izturis at SS though. :D Sounds like a good link...good luck finding it.

[tersignf]

Not sure how these have been normalized etc, but there's also a spreadsheet out there to make comparisons (google "SOM Defensive Evaluations")
Anyway--the numbers I think are more valuable as relative comparisons (these are not meaningful as stand-alone values--they've been normalized in some way) but of course ideally you would be comparing runs created versus runs allowed for a net run differential with each lineup config. The defensive eval spreadsheet would do that I think.

But check this out--in this case it appears may be better to DH Manny if you have Izturis...

[url]http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/btf/pages/basesim/stratfldg.htm#top[/url]

and here's another that accounts for arms, etc but again not sure how normalized and not sure if expected chances (i.e., weight factors) are accounted for...and don't know what the units are on the values--but again--relative trending appears correct.
[url]http://www.startournaments.com/charts/Defensive%20Values.htm[/url]

[1crazycanuk]

Hey thanks for the links. I'm checking them out now. Maybe I'll DH Manny some of the time, depending on how the team is doing. I have Loretta and Cora to choose from now at 2B. I offered Cora to someone for Hollandsworth.