by edgecitytx » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:53 pm
Jet, of course the Orangemen aren't a .700 team, but the season isn't close to over yet. But I'm not convinced they're a mediocre team either, or the kind of anomaly you think.
Your system is great for evaluating individual players, as is mine/Lucky's, or J-Pav's. But I think it's harder to evaluate teams and predict team performance.
There are a million ways to win at this game, and you can't build a perfect 80M team, if you're in a league with other good players. If you could, J-Pav's Secret Formula teams would dominate every time, but they don't.
What the systems can't do is predict unpredictability, whether it's from the Antiquators of the the world dropping their team into oblivion, or from inventive players finding new ways of doing things.
And I also think there are things our systems underrate, maybe because of the either/or factor of batters/pitchers cards (rather than Fielder facing Cliff Lee, you have either Fielder batting or Lee pitching), but that's a topic for another discussion.
When I start seeing anomalies on a regular basis, they don't feel all that anomalous.
Except for my hitting. Now that's an anomaly.
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