"GLORY DAYS" LEAGUE - 2020

Thought this might interest some people: I figured 4 seasons of data was enough to draw some insights, so while we wait for the draft, I did a quick project in which I ran the correlations between team payroll and number of wins in every season so far (2007 to 2010) and found the average number of games you should be expected to win given your team payroll.

As you might expect, the correlation is pretty high but not perfect -- luck, team ballpark fit and construction, and managing decisions all matter of course. The biggest overachieving (/luckiest?) teams based on salary were:
Lowell Lineouts '08 (92m payroll, 110 wins; 92 wins expected based on other team performance in 2008)
Purple Haze '10 (95m, 111 wins; 94 wins expected)
Lowell Lineouts '07 (54m, 79 wins; 66 wins expected)
Sedona Scorpions '07 (107m, 118 wins; 105 wins expected)

Good job boblues41! It varies a little bit by year, but on average, a $100m team should win on average roughly 96 games, for example; a $60m team should win about 70 games.

I have the data/graphs on an Excel sheet so let me know if you'd be interested in seeing it and I can email it over.

Thanks, Lev, nice work! If you're ever in the mood to crunch some more numbers, here are the results for the 13 seasons of a previous iteration, the "Those Were the Days League": https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =122626763

I can send a list of the Strat links for each season, too, to build the correlations.

I will probably pick a new ballpark as well.

What did you decide about that?

Yes, please.

Rosters updated at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =326774130

TARGET DATE FOR START OF 2011 DRAFT IS MAY 6, after dharmabums returns from the Grand Canyon.

DROPS POSTED
1. Terry101 - YES
2. centerfielder17 - YES
3. paul j kiggins - YES
4. dharmabums - YES
5. baseballmike - YES
6. oldmansmith2 - YES
7. beesore - YES
8. Harold Homers - YES
9. yannick metivier - YES
10. go4joe
11. tpiercersn
12. TBeard - YES
13. chilliards - YES
14. andycummings65 - YES
15. bigmahon
16. Hamilton17 - YES
17. Jerm12 - YES
18. fredpaii - YES
19. lev.cohen - YES
20. tcochran - YES
21. baseball cfo - YES
22. WJS6768
23. jodynadu - YES
24. Dr.Publix - YES

As usual, after all drops are posted, I will prepare a list of the players available for the draft.

go4joe drops:

O. Cabrera
C. Guillen
J. Guillen
M. Ordonez
F. Pie
I. Rodriguez
M. Batista
B. Matusz
J. Moyer
R. Ohlendorf

I will probably pick a new ballpark as well.

What did you decide about that?

Yes, please.

Jim, I think he means "which one" ... ? Everyone else's are listed on the bottom of the roster sheet already so I think you can just do this, unless I read the rules wrong which is entirely possible because I have too many leagues!

Jim, I think he means "which one" ... ? Everyone else's are listed on the bottom of the roster sheet already so I think you can just do this, unless I read the rules wrong which is entirely possible because I have too many leagues!

He needed to drop his current stadium in order to be eligible to draft a new one

Oh. I see

Drops (7)
Eric Hinske
Aubrey Huff
Casey McGehee
Scott Podsednik
Livan Hernandez
Barry Zito
Phil Coke

Glory Hounds drop:

Russell Branyan
JD Drew
Matt Tolbert
Ronnie Paulino
Sean Burnett
Joel Pineiro
Jason Berken
Jason Frasor