*** VD 14 Commentary Thread ***

[The Feral Slasher]

Kudos to the Slasher for making it through another round in first place! Now, if he could find a couple of great QUIZ guys hanging around, he could win this!

That is usually my plan...always hope we call it a day before my quizy's come home to roost. Hell i may make my penultimate pick and still be in first

[cavebird]

Kudos to the Slasher for making it through another round in first place! Now, if he could find a couple of great QUIZ guys hanging around, he could win this!

[cavebird]

Smart pick, johnny. It surprised me, but my projections just indicated that he could be my best pick at 1880's as well; you had to take him around the turn. I was surprised he made it that long---I thought revo would finally embrace the reality of his ratios and take Galvin in the 1890's; he may have gained a couple places in the standings that way---one from Galvin's numbers and one from leaving you without good options.

[cavebird]

I am hiding him for my last pick

Must be a QUIZY, lol.

[The Feral Slasher]

Nothing like those seasons unless he's not on the spreadsheet.

I am hiding him for my last pick

[Ken]

22.07 Dick Radatz P 1964

1964: 16 W, 29 SV, 181 K, 2.29 ERA, 1.025 WHIP. 10th in the AL in wins, 1st in saves, 7th in K's. Imagine what someone would pay in a regular roto league if he was expecting that nowadays.

Based on the fangraphs calculator, ~$35 in a 15 team mixed, so better than DeGrom, Strasburg, Greinke but not quite as good as the Cole/Verlander tier

[cavebird]

Why? You could just do a global replace in excel

I'll defer to your knowledge on these things. I have no clue.

[Ken]

It would probably require manually doing all of that--when it pops up, Johnny does that manually. It is weird, some guys with apostrophes are okay, some aren't.

Why? You could just do a global replace in excel

[cavebird]

If you lower your saves requirement to 10, you pull in a couple more interesting seasons, even with the 2.3 ERA and 1.1 WHIP.

One player who always goes early and another that rarely gets drafted but probably should due to his name, although his career stats aren't stellar

That is true. There are some strange and good seasons out there.

[cavebird]

If we were smarter we would just remove all apostrophes in the spreadsheet, everything would work the same as long as we were consistent.

It would probably require manually doing all of that--when it pops up, Johnny does that manually. It is weird, some guys with apostrophes are okay, some aren't.

[Ken]

Johnny---the spreadsheet still has issues with players with apostrophes in their names. Is there any way to fix this? I would say who, but, I can't publically.

If we were smarter we would just remove all apostrophes in the spreadsheet, everything would work the same as long as we were consistent.

[Ken]

Second: single season edition: Only three times in major league history has a pitcher had a season with 10+Wins, 20+ saves, and 150+ K's. All three seasons involved ERA's under 2.30 and WHIPs under 1.100, so again, true five category seasons.

If you lower your saves requirement to 10, you pull in a couple more interesting seasons, even with the 2.3 ERA and 1.1 WHIP.

One player who always goes early and another that rarely gets drafted but probably should due to his name, although his career stats aren't stellar

[cavebird]

Johnny---the spreadsheet still has issues with players with apostrophes in their names. Is there any way to fix this? I would say who, but, I can't publically.

[cavebird]

Nothing like those seasons unless he's not on the spreadsheet.

[The Feral Slasher]

If i recall there is another 60s pitcher very similar.to radatz