*** VD 6 Commentary Thread ***

[johnnya24]

From the VD6 Draft Thread

Downloads:

Updated Career & Best Year Hitter Stats Sheet

I have added 2 new sheets with formatted Career and Best Year stats side by side. This should make your ranking and sorting much much easier. All the stats are there on the Combined Sheets ... the less important stats are in hidden columns. You can see where the hidden columns are by looking at the missing letters along the top Row.

Tips and Using the Filter Column Arrows:

1. Use this Career & Best Year Stat Sheet for your rankings and sorting. That will mean when there is a Scoring Spreadsheet update, you will be able to use the latest version without losing your ranking info.
2. It's better to use the drop down filter arrows on the columns for sorting, rather than using custom sorts (especially on slower machines). It will be much faster if you use the "letter" and/or "number" filters rather than re-sorting the whole sheet every time you want to check a different parameter.
3. Make use of the "Text Filter" / "Number Filter" > "Contains" feature to filter the Position and Decade columns. It's the fastest and less resource heavy option.
4. Use the "Text Filter" > "Begins With" feature to filter by letter.
5. You can combine filters i.e. Text Filter the Last Name column --> Begins With "S". Then Text Filter the Position column --> Contains "2B" ... this will filter only S's and 2B. You undo these filters by clicking the column arrows again and selecting "Clear Filter From ____"

Would you prefer it organized with the Yahoo style layout?

e.g. Runs-HR-RBI-SB-AVG | W-S-K-ERA-WHIP

[Controller Jacobs]

Is Knuckleballs new?
If so, I've got some reasonable category ranks based on VD5, here's LI:
lowest: QUIZY (we selected 3 of these 5 for VD5) (Y and Z are better than the others)
below avg: OVEN (O is a little better than the others)
average: ADFJKLPT (A, J, F are slightly lesser than the others)
above average: GHR
best: BCMSW

[johnnya24]

Knucklballs is new ...

I've Pm'd

DMT;
Long John;
mjl;
Kevin Seitzer;
Riff Raff;
cavebird;
off_the_wall;
joncarlos;
bryanbutler;

OaklandA's is a no (from previous post)

I'm sure I've forgotten lots of names ... I just copied that list from the VD5 Com Thread.

[Controller Jacobs]

A hitter decade rank (based on VD5, might change a little with the additional required decade and the wildcards):

1870 (worst)
1910
1960
1900, 1940, 2010
1880, 1920, 1950, 1970
1980
1930
1890, 1990
2000 (best)

[Controller Jacobs]

A pitcher decade rank (again, based on VD 5, wildcard and extra decade might move them a little)
(worst*) 1890, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 2010
1980
1970, 1990, 2000
1910, 1960
1900
(best) 1870

*Note - the (worst) group is so many because we could ditch three decades last time, I think 1950 and 2010 are actually a little better than the others.

Also for new players, a mistake I regularly make with pitching is forgetting to set aside enough modern decades for saves. Technically, this can happen in other categories as well (e.g hitters with HRs, pitchers with career Ks), but it's pretty extreme with closers.

[Pogues]

Also note for the above pitching decades, 1870 and 1880 are combined into one decade.

[The Feral Slasher]

Also, I think we exepted QUIZ ENVY from knockouts ? Any other rules we need to discuss ? Friday or Monday start is fine with me. If Friday is a problem whoever wants to wait until Monday could just sit on their pick for the whole 12 hours...Is Johnny collecting names/numbers or do we wait another day to see about any late signups.

[Controller Jacobs]

Minor clarification for VD6 - I assume the wildcards are LI only (i.e. decades and position restrictions still apply to these two picks), and that they can both be pitchers or hitters (i.e. it is not 1 pitcher wc, 1 hitter wc).

[johnnya24]

Minor clarification for VD6 - I assume the wildcards are LI only (i.e. decades and position restrictions still apply to these two picks), and that they can both be pitchers or hitters (i.e. it is not 1 pitcher wc, 1 hitter wc).

Yeah WC's are letter only, and can be used on hitters or pitchers.

The positions are CC123SMCOOOOOU | PPPPPPPPPP

Decades are:

14 of 15 hitting decades (presumably most people will not pick an 1870's hitter)
11 of 14 pitching decades (usually it works out as 3 from the 6 worst pitching decades: 1890, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 2010)

[Controller Jacobs]

We had 10 pitchers last time, shouldn't it now be 11/14 decades?

[johnnya24]

We had 10 pitchers last time, shouldn't it now be 11/14 decades?

True ... fixed.

[johnnya24]

A request --- can we get the rules posted in the "rules will be posted here" post before we start the thing?

Ya ... it'll be up by this evening. It won't require much amendment from VD5.

[johnnya24]

Rules post updated ... if you see any issues or inconsistencies, let me know.

[The Feral Slasher]

Rules post updated ... if you see any issues or inconsistencies, let me know.

Should I send a random name list, or are we going to wait for the weekend to see if anyone else joins ?

[johnnya24]

Should I send a random name list, or are we going to wait for the weekend to see if anyone else joins ?

Yeah go ahead ...

Can someone else PM me a number list from 1-11 please.

I'll post both tonight before I turn in. I doubt we'll have any more entrants, but anyone else can still jump in.

We can unofficially start tomorrow. But no pressure to pick until Monday.

NOTE: if someone does come in after we make the list, I'll find a way to put them somewhere randomly rather than a set position.