Check out this link; Optimising lineups. Any use for Strato?

[ANDYCOCHRANE]

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/constructing-lineups

Check out this link concerning optimising lineups. Does this apply to Strato, bearing in mind the fact that many managers like having clutch ability at #5. I have used the card values to compute OBP and Slugging and am thinking of using these models to construct my lineup. What does anyone think?

[MARCPELLETIER]

Putting your 5th best hitter #3 seems quite counter-intuitive to me, and the reason for doing so is not very well justified. Perhaps the #3 has the most chances with 2 outs/none on base, but it is also the spot that has the most 2 on/no out....putting your 5th best hitter is like giving up on the big inning possibility, it seems to me.

Anyway, here is another one to check out:

http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/LineupAnalysis.py

you fill in your line-up, and they come up with the ideal line-up.

[MARCPELLETIER]

Here is what the system came up with...(vs rhp)

snow
walker
hairston
rolen
pierre
figgins
quinlan
everett
Burke

Rolen 4th and Pierre 5th...hmmmm....let me think about it... :roll: :wink:

That being said, the line-up I usually have only differs from 0.04 from this best potential line-up.

[ANDYCOCHRANE]

I had seen the baseball musings lineup tool as well. I have put some teams through it and some of the most productive lineups are happily, similar to some of my lineups. What do you think of the tools? Any use?

[1crazycanuk]

Hey that's interesting but it doesn't take into account speed, stealing, bunting skills, who hits into too many double plays, etc. What is OBA?

[ANDYCOCHRANE]

Just another name for OBP. Apparently speed, bunting etc not as important. I guess it could be modified to take account of strat "needs", such as low Dp at #2 and decent clutch at #5.

[1crazycanuk]

Thanks Shankly. I couldn't figure out if it was referring to OBP or BA.

[gett1863]

Interesting thread, I just ran my new lineup and it came up with Kotsay in leadoff and Pierre batting 9th.
J

[SEANCALHOON]

Also we must remember that there are LH and RH splits we are working with here.