Everything old is new again - ever heard of NERP?

My bro and I loved Strat back in the 60's with the paper version rolling the dice. We even pulled it out and played it via Zoom during the lockdown. But since Strat 365 is new to me, I dug into Palmtana's great post for Newbs with strategies going back over 18 years.

There are some real gems in there - the gem for today is NERP: Net Earned Runs Produced. This is so powerful that one of my new buddies in a 1964 league said something that amounts to "you, a rookie? what a joke!"

That's the power of the NERP formulas I found. Following links in Palmtana's post you'll find a formula for calculating NERP if you have all the card stats at your fingertips - but I didn't. So I crunched the numbers and based it on the free Salary spreadsheets Strat gives us then pulled in some data from Baseball Reference. Great site.

Also in the NERP posts are defense tables. Wonderful tables that show just what the difference is between ss-1e10 and ss-2e22. (Spoiler alert: It's huge. The NERP difference is 6.8 runs... where Mickey Mantle's *total* NERP in 1964 is 31.7!)

I'll spiff up the tables I have in Excel and put together an example how to use them and post them here. Hopefully tomorrow.

I posted a link to this file a while back, but have updated many times since then. I don't think many have viewed it, but I thought you might find this useful. It's the card chances for pretty much every card set in 365. Clutch and Power are not populated for every set, but most of them.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Awesome!

Here it is - FieldingNerp.xlsx. I dropped in two sample teams to show how it works.
https://1drv.ms/x/s!Aiiwi_UGvrbthbFmr66b-r6IlJF6Qg?e=0F0g3f
Please create a copy before you make changes to it! If you want me to add a specific team to it send me a link.

Each position has its own sheet if you want to dig into the nuts and bolts. The tables are right out of Dean Carrano's excellent writeup on NERP that you can find here: https://fliphtml5.com/zboo/vmaz/Offense ... o_-_mfooz/

Consider this a beta worksheet.
- there are a few places where I filled in numbers using formulas instead of copying the numbers from the old tables.
- the arm values are a bit up in the air - especially for Catchers.
- Compare Catcher values to catcher values ONLY. I didn't find a table for catchers in the old posts.

Errors, omissions, etc. please send me a message.

Much discussion of catcher NERP here.

https://forum-365.strat-o-matic.com/com ... c07045f687

I posted a link to this file a while back, but have updated many times since then. I don't think many have viewed it, but I thought you might find this useful. It's the card chances for pretty much every card set in 365. Clutch and Power are not populated for every set, but most of them.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

This amazing--thank you for sharing!