4e10 or 3e48 at ss?

[padrenurgle1]

I'm in the 24 team 1986 league, $60m teams, everyone is hosed in one way or another. My particular problem is I have no shortstop. I have two scrubs, one is a 4e10 (the only 4 I ever played at ss was Kevin Mitchell in 1989, lol), the other is a 3e48 (how can someone be that bad?).

Neither can hit a lick.

Trust me, the other options were much worse (as bad as 4e88...it wasn't a good year for shortstops).

Any thoughts about which is better defensively?

[Mean Dean]

My calculations confirm what would probably be most peoples' gut instinct, that the 4e10 is... less harmful.

[url]http://silenceisdefeat.com/~meandean/som/OffensevsDefense.zip[/url]

[edub1969]

[quote:186cb5d746="DeanTSC"]My calculations confirm what would probably be most peoples' gut instinct, that the 4e10 is... less harmful.

[url]http://silenceisdefeat.com/~meandean/som/OffensevsDefense.zip[/url][/quote:186cb5d746]


Dean...great work on this! Were catchers ever done as mentioned in the article?

[padrenurgle1]

Thank you! That was my lean too...although I may platoon them as the 4e10 is a 2L and the 3e48 is a 2R.

[toshiro]

For quick guesstimating, 1 pt of range factor at SS is worth ~ 21 errors

So, 4e10 =~ 3e31 vs 3e48. 4e10 is better.

There can be some small effect of double plays and higher range factors in the Inf have more SI** vs SI*. But these are pretty small factors.

1 pt Range factor =~
SS 21 errors
2B 18 errors
3B 9 errors
1b 6 errors