*!* VD 2 Commentary Thread *!*

[johnnya24]

HEYE

You can't KO Drysdale ... he has 1950's eligible years. Mathews wasn't KO'able either.

IGNORE ... EVEN I FORGOT THE RULES

Drysdale is KO'd from the 60's, but still eligible to be drafted in the 1950's

An Elephant moment ...

[Controller Jacobs]

He camps occasionally in your backyard with binoculars.

Slider is dead. And the kids have broken all of our binoculars (fortunately, they were all purchased on some sort of discount).

...

Wayne: your Palmer pick imples some BY indecision - is it 1975 or 1972?
8.01 Jim Palmer P 1975 palmeji01_1972

[Controller Jacobs]

HEYE

You can't KO Drysdale ... he has 1950's eligible years. Mathews wasn't KO'able either.

IGNORE ... EVEN I FORGOT THE RULES

johnny multitasking: drinking, driving, texting, smoking, probably even applying makeup

[heyelander]

Slider is dead. And the kids have broken all of our binoculars (fortunately, they were all purchased on some sort of discount).

...

Wayne: your Palmer pick imples some BY indecision - is it 1975 or 1972?
8.01 Jim Palmer P 1975 palmeji01_1972

Sorry, 1975. I just copied the wrong column when I pasted the ID in. Will edit.

[johnnya24]

When I get home, I will put an asterisk next to the names of the KO'd players if they still have eligible draft years.

But the list won't always be 100% up to date, so it's still important to stay on top of things ... and I could make a mistake and forget an asterisk, so don't take it as gospel.

[heyelander]

I thought for a really long time last night about taking an 1892 year for clarkson but just couldn't figure out how to manage the ~400 innings of 1.24 BY WHIP. Enjoy that 450 innings of 1.28.

that said... it's stuff like that that makes me enjoy additive scoring so much more than multiplicative.

[mjl]

I thought for a really long time last night about taking an 1892 year for clarkson but just couldn't figure out how to manage the ~400 innings of 1.24 BY WHIP. Enjoy that 450 innings of 1.28.

that said... it's stuff like that that makes me enjoy additive scoring so much more than multiplicative.

I'm hoping having almost 1000 innings of sub-1 ratio is enough of a cushion, and 300 wins from a bad decade was too much for me to pass up. I get way too excited by good players in bad decades (see Gehringer)

[Controller Jacobs]

I'm hoping having almost 1000 innings of sub-1 ratio is enough of a cushion...

It wasn't. The good news is that Galvin really didn't have a very good BY whip anyway, compared to other players from their decade. A BY whip punt can be pretty convenient.

[hacko]

here pick shortly

[heyelander]

BY WHIP is killer. I was looking at VD23 when I was deciding on this. That was a 17 team decade draft with no KOs so things will be a bit different, but still, here's how people finished Whip / Rank:

1.032	5
1.010	8
0.996	13
1.012	7
0.999	12
1.004	10
0.985	14
1.009	9
1.034	4
1.057	1
0.974	16
1.044	2
0.984	15
1.030	6
1.001	11
0.966	17
1.034	3

1.06 gets you 1 point!

[hacko]

Kind of a love /hate relation with KO. I really like it because it seems like you have to think about picking a player from a bad decade or getting one from a good decade (or position) before they all get knocked out . Of course I don't have any clue on which is the better choice.

[Pogues]

I gotta tell you...these KO rules f%*)in suck...players half knocked out....I'll try to get a pick up before I fall asleep....

[johnnya24]

Updated through Pogues.

KO'd players with eligible years are highlighted in green.

If these players are then drafted in an eligible year, they will be marked red.

Green = GO
Red = GONE

This will keep things lively :P

I kinda like the fact it's a little bit messy. Reminds me of the early days when there were still unknown players.

Note: please refer to both the draft thread and the history thread as the history thread cannot be updated instantly ... and do your own double checking!!

[revo]

HEYE

You can't KO Drysdale ... he has 1950's eligible years. Mathews wasn't KO'able either.

IGNORE ... EVEN I FORGOT THE RULES

Drysdale is KO'd from the 60's, but still eligible to be drafted in the 1950's

An Elephant moment ...

But as such, I don't get the Drysdale KO since, as was the case I was making, no one was taking Drysdale for his 1960s BY anyway.

[johnnya24]

But as such, I don't get the Drysdale KO since, as was the case I was making, no one was taking Drysdale for his 1960s BY anyway.

Yeah ... not the best KO. Heyelander is probably just trying to highlight the situation so that everyone is aware of the ruling