2006 TSN Online Strat-O-Matic PREVIEW

Postby Stoney18 » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:23 pm

Weighted waivers are where you get more priority if you lose your 1st draft choice than if you lose your 25th.

I know this has been asked about often but it's the first I've heard that it's going to be implemented.

It is a great idea.
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Postby 1crazycanuk » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:23 pm

Yeah, what are weighted waivers and how do you know they are adding them?
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Postby wavygravy2k » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:01 pm

[quote:b0e4fd17e4]If they are included in the online game (they are included in the home computer version), the most expensive hitters by far will be the famous sluggers Ryan Zimmerman, Rene Rivera, and Glenn Williams. [/quote:b0e4fd17e4]

My prediction is that they won't be in the online game because their ABs are low. They might cause "unrealistically skewed game results" as per the Help/faq says.
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Postby geekor » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:43 pm

I'm not sure on the exact weights they are using, you'll have to ask Bernie. but the idea is like this: You rank your players, and everything goes just liek now. except when determining waiver order. Instead of ordering it by the number of players you missed, it will order by the weight, i.e. how high they were. so say you #1 pick = 25 points, you #2, 24 points, #3 = 23 points, etc, etc. So me missing my #1 pick would be higher than you missing yor last 6 picks. Which is about right as those are usually .50 scrubs.

Post was written by Bernie here: http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=57212&start=5
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Postby 1crazycanuk » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:05 am

That seems like a good way to do it. Thanks for the link.
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Postby The Biomechanical Man » Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:52 pm

From [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=58959]socalchiro[/url]

[quote:ff9de5ab7f]The 2005 Ratings Book contains a wealth of information about your favorite player and team. Getting this information is almost like a second or late Christmas. Everyone will have their favorite piece of information or juicy tidbit or nugget. We're looking at poor Bernie Williams who gets just gutted beyond belief with the CF 5e3 +4 card. Jeff Francoeur has a great Strat card, hopefully of things to come, with the RF 2e12 -3 rating. And A-Rod... Almost everything on this card is "off the charts."

Poor OF Throwing Arms
These players will have diminished value in the 2005 set.
Bernie Williams +4
Shan Stewart +3
Juan Pierre +3
Ken Lofton +2
Nick Swisher +2
John Damon +2
You really have to move Damon to LF based on the throwing arm.

Good OF Throwing Arms
Suzuki has the only –5 arm. Jones, Dye, Guerrero, Abreu (the GG winner), Hidalgo, and Guillen have –4 arms. Jeff Francoeur starts his SOM career with a –3 rating. Willy Taveras has a much better Strat card than expected with the addition of his –3 arm.

Bad Clutch
Corey Patterson, Jason Bartlett, Todd Linden, Mike Edwards, Joe McEwing, and Chris Snyder could cost runs from the bottom of the lineup.

Good Clutch
The 10 best clutch guys are: Placido Polanco, Frank Catalanotto, Magglio Ordonez, So Taguchi, Mark Kotsay, Aaron Miles, Jeff Kent, Terrence Long, Michael Young, and Brian Giles.

Unbalanced or Uneven Cards
These players may work as platoon hitters, or if possessing sufficient quality on both sides worthy of full-time status, could experience severe variation in draft league results.
Todd Helton
Jeff Francoeur
Junior Spivey
Miguel Olivo
Bengie Molina
Vernon Wells
Jody Gerut
Orlando Palmeiro
David Bell
Russell Branyan
Ryan Howard

Running
27 players have the 1-17 running rating. Only 9 players have a 1-16 running rating. Both Grady Sizemore and Alex Rodriguez have the 1-17 rating.

Bad Catcher Throwing Arms
These players lose Strat card value with +2 arms
Michael Barrett
Jason Phillips
Jason Kendall
Javy Lopez
J.D. Closser

Best Catcher Throwing Arms
Pudge and Yadier Molina check in with –3 arms.

Solid Catcher Throwing Arms
There’s nothing wrong with the –2 rating.
Jason Larue, Jose Molina, Joe Mauer, Brian Schneider, Toby Hall, and Mike Matheny

Good Pitcher Holds
11 pitchers have the –6 hold rating, including Zach Duke, Chris Capuano, Dontrelle Willis, Carlos Zambrano, and Kyle Davies

Worst Pitcher Holds
The +9 hold rating may/will impact many of the game’s biggest names, especially John Patterson, Jason Schmidt, Eric Gagne, Kevin Millwood, Bob Wickman, Greg Maddux, and Bobby Jenks.

Best DP Pitchers
Some of the pitchers with top ratings include:
Brandon Webb, A.J. Burnett, Jason Marquis, Mark Mulder, Dan Haren, Jesse Crain, Chien-Ming Wang, David Wells, Carl Pavano, Zach Duke, Carlos Silva, Kirk Saarloos, and Bob Wickman

Stolen Base Merchants
Chone Figgins and Jose Reyes have 19-15. Podsednik has 17-15 but a 64 percent jump.

The LF Cannons
Manny Ramirez with a –2 and Miguel Cabrera has the –3 throwing arm.[/quote:ff9de5ab7f]
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Postby RangerJoe » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:04 pm

I see no mention of Pujols here. Isn't his card any good?
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Postby The Biomechanical Man » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:00 pm

Pujols' card is very good.
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Something scary

Postby The Biomechanical Man » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:06 pm

For the second year in a row, Billy Wagner has [b:de305c9108]nothing[/b:de305c9108] on his card vs. lefties - no hits, no walks. And his 2006 game (2005 season) card has only half as many hits and walks and total bases as his 2005 game (2004 season) card. :shock:
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Postby blsmith7 » Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:40 pm

Can someone tell me how these cards look and the injury rolls for Berkman, Edmonds, Branyan, and J. Michaels. I drafted them in a pre-card league. And how about Jae Seo as a pitcher. Thanks.
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