*** VD 13 Commentary Thread ***

[johnnya24]

It's in the rules, but a quick reminder for players who haven't done decades before:

1870's and 1880's are combined for Pitchers.

So 1870's are super weak for hitting and basically super strong for pitching because it's rolled into the 1880's. You don't need to be looking for an 1870's pitcher.


----


It's one hitter from every Decade (15 total).

12 pitchers, that is 12 from 14 decades (with 1870's and 1880's counting as one).

[frae]

I was planning to take him because I assumed you'd take Hoffman since you did in VD10.

I gave real thought to Hoffman over Rivera because the BY is so obvious for him. With Mo I spilt the middle of by saves and by ratios with 2005

[Kevin Seitzer]

Minor thing but Rule 1a you can edit 2010-11 to be 2010-18.

Rule 3, do we still need a team career IP minimum with multi scoring?

Rule 4, our draft order selection process is slightly different, probably not that important to edit, though.

Rule 5a, OBP replaces AVG.

Rule 5b, are we doing "Multi plus 1" scoring?

Can I bug you on this again, Johnny?

(except Rule 3, which we're keeping)

[DMT]

Have we ever discussed replacing HRs with slugging %?

[johnnya24]

Can I bug you on this again, Johnny?

(except Rule 3, which we're keeping)

We have a career IP minimum 18000 IP (Rule 3). Am I misunderstanding?

3. There will be a team career IP requirement of 18000 IP. Failure to meet that minimum requirement will result in one point in career ERA and career WHIP. The career ERA and career WHIP of the penalized team will be used as normal for the purposes of determining the standings of the other teams in those categories, i.e., the penalty will be applied after the standings are determined for those categories.

[The Feral Slasher]

I reached the same conclusion as you and Johnny...good enough is good enough.

One thing that would help me in the spreadsheet in the by year tab is a column that shows which year of a player is drafted. Now it just colors every year for the player so you can't tell. Probably pretty easy to do so I'll try to figure it out after some other stuff.

So it took me about 20 or 30 minutes to figure out how to do this and implement, which mean most of you could have done it in five minutes. Should have done this years ago

[The Feral Slasher]

Have we ever discussed replacing HRs with slugging %?

I don't recall. But I'd be game

[Kevin Seitzer]

We have a career IP minimum 18000 IP (Rule 3). Am I misunderstanding?

I was bumping my earlier post, but for clarity (I thought) I was saying that I was no longer asking for any change to Rule 3, despite what I had said in the post I was bumping.

[johnnya24]

I don't recall. But I'd be game

If I recall previous discussions about S% OPS etc, I think there was concern about adding another ratio to the hitting ... to the point were we never really considered it again. But I don't recall specifics. There was also concern about duplicating stats (especially with OPS)

[johnnya24]

I was bumping my earlier post, but for clarity (I thought) I was saying that I was no longer asking for any change to Rule 3, despite what I had said in the post I was bumping.

I figured something like that.

[Kevin Seitzer]

[/B]

So it took me about 20 or 30 minutes to figure out how to do this and implement, which mean most of you could have done it in five minutes. Should have done this years ago

I'm not sure what you use this for? I like knowing that none of a player's years are available to be selected once he's off the board, so I like having them all marked, regardless of which specific one was taken. Maybe I don't understand what you're doing.

[hacko]

I figured something like that.

You know it is your pick

[Kevin Seitzer]

I'd be concerned about adding another ratio category. I'd be more open to something like Total Bases or (TB-H).

[The Feral Slasher]

I'm not sure what you use this for? I like knowing that none of a player's years are available to be selected once he's off the board, so I like having them all marked, regardless of which specific one was taken. Maybe I don't understand what you're doing.

It just clues me in to what year and decade a player is likely to be drafted in. If I see a player with 9 seasons over 3 different decades its hard to tell which year and decade is likely the best one. But if you can already run a program that does that for you it might not help much

[johnnya24]

You know it is your pick

Yeah ... thx