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WAR Horse's trading block has been updated!
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 13, 2012 10:57 AM
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Almost to the 48 hour mark.....
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Last season's arb victims: M. Moore, Harper, A. Avila, Granderson, Hanley, Strasburg, Kipnis, Hosmer, Lawrie, J. Zimmerman, CJ Wilson, A Wainwright. Hanley was the most expensive vote off at $35
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Also impressive that Crying has 48 players on his 40 man roster...
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Wow, that's impressive that you called the winner and were close on the points. Especially since most other leagues were well below 19000 points. Once arbitration is over (and I trade off my entire roster), it will be fun to analyze each team for 2013
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In related news, my roster is a tad crowded.
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(I'm just coming back to these excel goodies after a couple months of "hollistic" roster management)
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4 of the top 6 were in the right order, but that's it otherwise. No real point in even discussing the order of the bottom 6, pre- or post-season.
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It's kind of nonsensical due to how incredibly different rosters became over the course of the season, but amusingly enough, my spreadsheet projected Strikes as our winner with 19436.4 points (day after the draft).
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I know I'm better off to wait deep in the season to trade, but this ridiculously long arbitration "layoff" is likely to cause some seriously rash trade decisions on my part come November 15th....
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Uhm, yes. It actually let's you see your own and everybody else's salary increases as they're happening. I can already see what the other teams have allocated to my players.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 10, 2012 8:37 PM
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Do you like the new system?
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I also just got to use the new arbitration system for real. Jealous?
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 10, 2012 6:02 PM
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I just bought this abandoned team. Thoughts? Opinions? http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/168/team?team=1295
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 10, 2012 4:30 PM
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Javier Baez at 5 makes me downright giddy. He's not even the best Cubs prospect on my roster!
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 10, 2012 4:12 PM
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http://www.minorleagueball.com/2012/10/8/3474442/preliminary-top-50-hitting-prospects-for-2013
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 10, 2012 4:11 PM
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Lucky Strikes's trading block has been updated!
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Oooooh prospect lists. Which one are you looking at?
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Apparently I now have 9 of the top 50 hitting prospects. Pretty cool, huh?
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 10, 2012 7:28 AM
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FYI - I may be sending out some notifications in the coming days about players that interest me on your squad. Just laying the groundwork...
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I have tons of prospects that I am willing to discuss for current production at just about any position
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I will deal either Freeman or Alonso if someone will deal me an outfielder of comparable value.
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This!
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Dear Ottoneu, in 2013 arbitration should take about 10 days. That's all.
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Well, in the present tense that would be 100% ;)
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90%?....I doubt that
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My chances of winning a 2013 title are roughly equivalent to Obama's chances of winning the 2012 election.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 8, 2012 6:25 PM
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I am willing to start the trade discussion as well over emails. I'm glad the election is over and FMW can stop telling us that Romney had 0%! chance of winning. Silver would have called him a wizard. At least college football is keeping me going.
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Where's the Google doc for that, Trey?
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 8, 2012 7:27 AM
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Started making a list of my top 30 off season trade targets yesterday just to pass the time. One more week...
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The trade offers are coming soon. It's all I can do to not start the trade dialogue. I'm counting on Ottoneu to get me through what I consider to be the longest, most boring sports (MLB) downtime of the year. Not an NFL guy and the election is over.
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And see that's my thing. Anybody who is upset and thought Romney had a chance needs to look to blame Karl Rove and friends for their wishful thinking.
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well shit....that is NOT the kind of leverage position I need going into the off season as Trey gets warmed up to throw a myriad of trade proposals my way....
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Getting closer... http://itsalmo.st/#treydmageddon
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In related news, Grandal just got a 50-game ban. I bet Silver's model didn't account for that.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 3:16 PM
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The only way to doubt Silver's model would've been to predict a much larger R turnout than in 2008, and that clearly didn't materialize.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 3:10 PM
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His model's predictions, were solid, correct.....and obvious. Envisioning a different scenario than the one he predicted would've required a lot of wishful thinking in light of the polls.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 3:10 PM
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Perhaps NYT content is just out of my intellectual league.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 3:08 PM
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I'm saying that I don't understand his celebrity status. If his predictions are in line with poll data that everyone and their mother has access to, I'm not sure what kind of knowledge he's dropping on us.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 3:08 PM
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And if you're not trashing his model, what exactly are you doing? Simply suggesting his conclusions were obvious?
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I follow him on Twitter and think he's pretty measured, especially when dealing with critics presonally attacking him because they have no idea how to interpret real analysis, don't like his conclusions, or both.
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Maybe you don't follow him on Twitter but the guy is insufferable.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 1:03 PM
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And to be fair, part of the reason he was getting hammered is because he is a smug, condescending douchebag along the lines of certain Fangraphs writers who will remain unnamed.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 1:02 PM
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I mean did Romney win ANY states he wasn't guaranteed to win?
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 12:59 PM
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Like I said a few days ago, I'm not trashing his model, which I don't even have the statistical chops to evaluate. I'm just sayin....big fucking deal. There were literally zero surprises in this election, so all safe picks were winners.
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 12:59 PM
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So it's sour grapes to point out that Silver's model didn't predict anything that couldn't have been predicted by looking at the 2008 electoral map?
Eckfords ⚾ on
November 7, 2012 12:56 PM
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And then did the same thing in the Senate forecasts. Random choice: Mass. Silver: 51.7 - 47.3 Final: 53.8 - 46.3. That's solid work.
Caimans 🐊 on
November 7, 2012 12:17 PM
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He basically told you the morning of the election exactly how the popular vote of each state would break down to within 1% of what it actually did in most cases.
Caimans 🐊 on
November 7, 2012 12:14 PM
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Virginia. Silver's Model - Obama 50.7, Romney 48.7. Final Vote: Obama 51.49, Romney 48.51.
Caimans 🐊 on
November 7, 2012 12:14 PM
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NC for example - Silver's model - Obama 48.9%, Romney 50.6%. Final Tally - Obama 48.91%, Romney 51.01%. That's a pretty damn good model.
Caimans 🐊 on
November 7, 2012 12:12 PM
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