Baseball 2009 League Chat

[joethejet]

crs,

Yeah, you're pretty good v LHP and you're hitting them about the same as you're hitting RHP. You're higher rated on O v RHP when you take D into consideration. It's not loke you're not putting up decent numbers offensively v LHP.

Team is a little weak in OB v LHP and susceptible to hard LHSPs as you start 4 LHB.

The fact of the matter is, 9-14 is closer to expected than 32-8! :shock:

Jet

[joethejet]

Claw, looks like your O Rat went down, especially v RHP. You're really not very good there now.

However, Halladay and more efficient use of your pen, combined with slightly better D has improved your rating about 100 points. If you don't face too many RHP, you have improved yourself.

Still, you're 6.50 under the cap so, that's tough.

Jet
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[theClaw]

I agree Joe with your assessment...my reasoning for the moves is that Hardy, Howard and Either were awful, not close to what they were worth. Howard and Hardy had obp. below 30%. Either and Hardy with slugging percentage below 30% also. Those cards I picked up can do that and will probably do more. Not many reverse righties so I am hoping that I will be better. Hey, I face two lefties tonight. :)

[joethejet]

Yeah, definitely want to avoid throwing a LHP against you. Your rating v RHP is 814 versus 891 v LHP. AND, that'w ehne you have Wilson and Sweeney healthy. When they're out, you'll drop even further! :shock:

[joethejet]

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Team O P F P+F Overall Div
AlphaDog 7949 5072 544 5616 2333 C
Heaters. 7900 5344 424 5767 2133 C
PPumpers 8045 5253 775 6028 2017 W
Sandbagr 7689 5180 557 5737 1952 W
TitleTwn 7698 5328 453 5781 1916 E
OrlRails 7707 5474 332 5806 1901 W
TurnBurn 7353 5213 304 5518 1836 C
Mahoots. 7694 5432 497 5929 1765 W
KCRoyals 7926 5648 552 6199 1727 E
BayChill 7350 4753 875 5628 1722 C
Knights. 7212 5001 501 5502 1710 E
CRoyals. 7426 5559 862 6421 1005 E[/code:1:59e9314e0f]

Some changes in the ratings due to moves teams made, changes in RP usage or, just that I figured out a platoon or something like Soriano is playing 2b, not LF.

Currently the ratings would say that we're under performing, that Title Town, Bay Chill and the Knights are way over. You can explain Title Town as they are in a very weak division, maybe the Knights too. Bay Chill? Harder to explain, but maybe it's because they are 13-5 versus the East. Maybe it's because they are 34 for 40 in save opportunites. Rivera is good, but if you roll on your own card, it doesn't matter a whit.

Divisionally you would expect Title Town and the Pumpers/Sandbaggers to be where they are. You'd expect the Alphas to be higher than they are, but the Heaters aren't going to go away. Both teams would be in the Playoffs as of today. (oh, I actually did these ratings yesterday so the numbers aren't what you'll see right now)

You would expect TT to cruise home. Heaters and Alphas are going to battle. The West will be a two team race the ratings would say. Ratings also say that the Chill freezes, and that none of the East teams will end up being WC contenders. It would appear the four playoff teams will come from TT, Heaters, Alpha, Sandbaggers and Pumpers.


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Team Ov Ovrl Rtg Rec Dif
AlphaDog 2333 1 2 -1 C
Heaters. 2133 3 2 1 C
PPumpers 2017 4 4 0 W
Sandbagr 1952 5 2 3 W
TitleTwn 1916 5 1 4 E
OrlRails 1901 5 7 -2 W
TurnBurn 1836 7 8 -1 C
Mahoots. 1765 8 7 1 W
KCRoyals 1727 9 10 -1 E
BayChill 1722 9 4 5 C
Knights. 1710 9 4 5 E
CRoyals. 1005 12 12 0 E
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Offensively KC is way, way below where they should be in that division. Tittle own and Turn Burn have scored more than you would expect. Alphas and C Royals should be better than they are.


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Team Of O Rtg Run Dif
PPumpers 8045 1 2 -1 W
AlphaDog 7949 3 6 -3 C
KCRoyals 7926 3 9 -6 E
Heaters. 7900 4 5 -1 C
OrlRails 7707 6 6 0 W
TitleTwn 7698 6 1 5 E
Mahoots. 7694 6 6 0 W
Sandbagr 7689 6 6 0 W
CRoyals. 7426 9 12 -3 E
TurnBurn 7353 10 6 4 C
BayChill 7350 10 9 1 C
Knights. 7212 12 10 2 E

Team PF P+F Rtg Run Dif
Knights. 5502 1 1 0 E
TurnBurn 5518 1 7 -6 C
AlphaDog 5616 3 7 -4 C
BayChill 5628 3 3 0 C
Sandbagr 5737 5 4 1 W
Heaters. 5767 5 7 -2 C
TitleTwn 5781 6 5 1 E
OrlRails 5806 6 8 -2 W
Mahoots. 5929 8 12 -4 W
PPumpers 6028 9 6 3 W
KCRoyals 6199 11 10 1 E
CRoyals. 6421 12 10 2 E
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Turn Burns O being too high is offset by their pitching/D being too low. Of course, they just made some moves so that is probably the reason for the ratings being off on them. Again, the Alphas are low along with the Mahoots. No one is really over performing in this area.

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Run Diff

Team Ov Ovrl Rtg Run Dif Dif
AlphaDog 2333 1 7 -6 C
Heaters. 2133 3 6 -3 C
PPumpers 2017 4 3 1 W
Sandbagr 1952 5 3 2 W
TitleTwn 1916 5 1 4 E
OrlRails 1901 5 8 -3 W
TurnBurn 1836 7 7 0 C
Mahoots. 1765 8 10 -2 W
KCRoyals 1727 9 10 -1 E
BayChill 1722 9 6 3 C
Knights. 1710 9 5 4 E
CRoyals. 1005 12 12 0 E
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Nothing really to note here that hasn't already be noted above.

[theClaw]

Joe-

1st off I want tot thank you for doing the ratings and then giving us this input. This is the first time we have been in a league together and I hope it will not be the last.
I hope that the dice rolls continue to go my way on the offensive end and am in the divisional race until the end. Taking three from the Mahoots last night was big.

My last comment is that I have never seen a tean have 34 hits before! That performance by your team two nights ago was amazing. :shock:

[joethejet]

Claw,

Thanks.

Yeah, it was an amazing performance, but it would be nice to spread a few of those out! :P

We need at least one of A Rod, Utley, Sizemore to come along or I think we're going to continue to be up and down.

Jet

[crs76]

I know it is my own fault for having so many injury prone players, but Hal really has some goofy logic when filling out a lineup. Game 92 I was without Blalock, Pena, Zimmerman, Martinez, and Callaspo. So Laird is the only guy qualified for either 3B or C so he gets 3B where he is a 5E37 and Spilbourghs plays C. (Spilbourghs didn't allow a SB)

Game 93 I have Blalock back, but I am facing a lefty where I have Young listed as DH, so instead DHing of one of my extra outfielders, he puts Ankiel at 1B and Blalock at 3B until the 8th inning when he makes some defensive adjustments and switches Guillen and Ankiel...

[joethejet]

Yeah, Hal doesn't make good decisions even with all the options available with few options he's even worse. :(

Bay Chill is somehow in first place. We lost two to them tonight. They can't hit RHP at all, but somehow are winning games. Tonight, Verlander manages to give up 7 walks in 6.1 IP to a lineup with only 4 LHBs in it, and only two players with OBs over .400. :? Strange that. In addition their D is lousy, but the must be giving up the X chart hit/errors when they don't matter much. I've seen bad fielding teams do that in the past. I *know* how he won game 3, Hal brought in Affeldt in long relief instead of Giese. :(

The funny thing is I actually out scored him in the three games. :evil: I guess we used all our luck in game one and he saved it for the next two games. ;)

Well, there's always one team that over performs and I guess he's it for this league. I guess he does have great SPs and one good RP and can hit LHP so, maybe that's enough. Looks like it will be a three team race despite what the ratings say!

Jet
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[jdmercha]

I think we are far enough through the season now to evaluate how your team is doing compared to what you expected at the begining of the season. Is your team performing as expected?

For the most part my team is doing what I expected. I built this team to perform in certain statistcal areas. And hopefully that would translate into wins. The win column is a little dissapointing, but my team is pretty much performing as expected, except for the HR stats.

My first consideration in building this team is to hit for average. My team BA has pretty much been at the top all year. This is supposed to translate to being in the top 4 for runs scored. I've finally reached 4th today, but I've been pretty close all year.

Secondly I select players with good defensive skills. This includes a catcher with a good arm and pitchers with good pickoff ratings. By cutting down on stolen bases this usually means I'll lead the leaguse in GBDP. This hasn't quite worked out, but it is close enough.

My third consideration is to select pitchers with the lowest WHIP. Normally, after the above consideration, this puts my pitching staff in the middle of the pack. It has been a struggle to stay in the middle.

The biggest problem with this team is that I do not hit nearly as many HRs (66) as I should and I give up way more HRs(128) than I should. I did make a trade to sacrifice some of my defense in order to increas my HR stats. This hasn't worked out too well. I have been able to keep up my BA with this trade and the defensive slide has been minimal. But I still think I should be hitting more HRs than I do.