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---------- Original message ----------
From: Joe Watson
Date: Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM
Subject: Gashouse League Filling Up! (One Way or Another)
To: Team Owners
Good morning; Jeff & Greg, Bob and Richard.
Please go ahead and sign up for the 2010 Gashouse League season (or, lemmeknow if you're not gonna).
As soon as I've heard from your three teams, I'll open up the Gashouse League for public sign-up. I'll set the league-size limit at 12 teams.
How come we'd open the league to ... alors! ... total strangers? We're kinda tappin' out, i.e., doin' our own small circle recruiting. At only nine teams, last year, I thought the experience was a little thin. And, I think there's a really good chance ... if we get some total stranger sign-ups ... we'll meet one or two serious competitors who we enjoy inviting back year-after-year.
So, sign up or give me an adios. Then, I'll publish the league for public sign-up.
Gracias.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Questions re: 2010 Metrics
---------- Original message ----------
From: Joe Watson
Date: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: Y! Sports: Fantasy Questions
To: Jared
Hello, Jared! Go to Soggy Biscuit.
Peter (my son) forwarded your question to me. (Peter maintains the Yahoo account; I wrangle the Gashouse League).
#SoggyBiscuitWhat happened to the Soggy Biscuits? I liked that one.
Lemme shoot you a link to a Gashouse League blog I keep over on blogspot, i.e.:
http://gashouseleague.
In the last three or four posts on that blog, I go into painful detail on how we get to this year's statistical metrics. I'll give you a brief rationale, here, for your specific questions. But, read the last few posts on the blog for more and deeper background.
AVG? Two years ago, we used OPS (On-Base Plus Slugging) and everyone liked it. We decided OPS was more "basebally" than AVG in that it rewards walks and extra bases, whereas AVG does not.
If we like OPS why not use it, this year? We use the two components, i.e., OBP (on-base percentage) and SLG (slugging). We opt for both the components instead of the combination of the two as part of our effort to "level the playing field" between those of us with jobs and those retirees of us with no social lives who have nothing better to do than check our lineups before each first pitch. When you think about it ... a poor wretch with a job and/or a social life is going suffer more games with empty positions. Frankly (and I learned this last year), the guy who has each position filled each game has a prohibitive advantage vis the guy with a bunch of null opportunities. By opting for ... and I don't have a better adjective for it ... by opting for relative measures instead of absolute measures you give the poor working stiff a better chance. Meaning, "my guy's average on-base" and "my guy's average slugging performance" ... "even though I didn't get as many at-bats" has just as good a chance as your guy's even though he got more at-bats. By splitting OPS into it's two components (OBP and SLG), we double the number of relative measures in the weighting (that is ... versus if we'd used just AVG or OPS). The amateur mathematician in me tells me this is better for you guys with jobs at the expense of us guys who are retired (and there are three of us in this league ... about to be a fourth).
Errors? I'm with you. I hate errors as a category. But, it's a category that penalizes the guy with a player in each position in the lineup in each game and rewards the guy who isn't able to get to his lineups several times, a day. Again, we did this to "level the playing field" between us life of leisure guys and you poor working guys.
You'd think I'd wanna tilt the odds to ... well ... me. And so I'd not do these things to "level the playing field." But, I actually won the league last year and realized late in the season what I was doing wasn't fun. I was winning because I had the time and inclination to be obsessed about keeping players in the lineup all the time. It felt like I wasn't out-thinking or out-playing anyone. I was in a forced typing competition. All I had to do was serve my inhuman blinking eye computer and feed it a lineup three times a night. That was no fun. So, I want a "level playing field" and competition. Else, it's no fun.
Draft time? I'd really prefer not to move the draft time. We've had the same date and time for the fourth straight time, now (i.e., the last Saturday evening at the same time of the evening). It's just the accountant in me ... and I think it helps if everyone can come to depend on a schedule. I mean ... we could go ahead and calendar 2011's draft, pretty much.
I'm gonna go ahead and post this exchange out on the Gashouse League blog ... just in case the additional discussion is useful.
Thanks for coming back!
To: Commissioner
From: Jared
Subject: Y! Sports: Fantasy Questions
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:57:20 -0800
From: Joe Watson
Date: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: Y! Sports: Fantasy Questions
To: Jared
Hello, Jared! Go to Soggy Biscuit.
Peter (my son) forwarded your question to me. (Peter maintains the Yahoo account; I wrangle the Gashouse League).
#SoggyBiscuitWhat happened to the Soggy Biscuits? I liked that one.
Lemme shoot you a link to a Gashouse League blog I keep over on blogspot, i.e.:
http://gashouseleague.
In the last three or four posts on that blog, I go into painful detail on how we get to this year's statistical metrics. I'll give you a brief rationale, here, for your specific questions. But, read the last few posts on the blog for more and deeper background.
AVG? Two years ago, we used OPS (On-Base Plus Slugging) and everyone liked it. We decided OPS was more "basebally" than AVG in that it rewards walks and extra bases, whereas AVG does not.
If we like OPS why not use it, this year? We use the two components, i.e., OBP (on-base percentage) and SLG (slugging). We opt for both the components instead of the combination of the two as part of our effort to "level the playing field" between those of us with jobs and those retirees of us with no social lives who have nothing better to do than check our lineups before each first pitch. When you think about it ... a poor wretch with a job and/or a social life is going suffer more games with empty positions. Frankly (and I learned this last year), the guy who has each position filled each game has a prohibitive advantage vis the guy with a bunch of null opportunities. By opting for ... and I don't have a better adjective for it ... by opting for relative measures instead of absolute measures you give the poor working stiff a better chance. Meaning, "my guy's average on-base" and "my guy's average slugging performance" ... "even though I didn't get as many at-bats" has just as good a chance as your guy's even though he got more at-bats. By splitting OPS into it's two components (OBP and SLG), we double the number of relative measures in the weighting (that is ... versus if we'd used just AVG or OPS). The amateur mathematician in me tells me this is better for you guys with jobs at the expense of us guys who are retired (and there are three of us in this league ... about to be a fourth).
Errors? I'm with you. I hate errors as a category. But, it's a category that penalizes the guy with a player in each position in the lineup in each game and rewards the guy who isn't able to get to his lineups several times, a day. Again, we did this to "level the playing field" between us life of leisure guys and you poor working guys.
You'd think I'd wanna tilt the odds to ... well ... me. And so I'd not do these things to "level the playing field." But, I actually won the league last year and realized late in the season what I was doing wasn't fun. I was winning because I had the time and inclination to be obsessed about keeping players in the lineup all the time. It felt like I wasn't out-thinking or out-playing anyone. I was in a forced typing competition. All I had to do was serve my inhuman blinking eye computer and feed it a lineup three times a night. That was no fun. So, I want a "level playing field" and competition. Else, it's no fun.
Draft time? I'd really prefer not to move the draft time. We've had the same date and time for the fourth straight time, now (i.e., the last Saturday evening at the same time of the evening). It's just the accountant in me ... and I think it helps if everyone can come to depend on a schedule. I mean ... we could go ahead and calendar 2011's draft, pretty much.
I'm gonna go ahead and post this exchange out on the Gashouse League blog ... just in case the additional discussion is useful.
Thanks for coming back!
To: Commissioner
From: Jared
Subject: Y! Sports: Fantasy Questions
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:57:20 -0800
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| Hey Foul Pops, You have just been sent the following note from Big Face Hundreds (Jeb) in the Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball league named Gashouse League (167403)... Commish: I have a couple questions about this year. First I was wondering if there was any way you could move the draft to an afternoon because I work nights. If you can't then no big deal. I was also wondering about the stat categories. I was wondering why batting avg is not a category, but errors is? Just seems to me that that is more important. Just wanted to know your opinion. Thanks. Jared |
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