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Get out your wallets, it is arbitration time!!
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I am carrying way too many minor leaguers. Let me know if you have interest in any of them. And by minor leaguers I am including guys like Baez and Franco.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 11, 2014 8:17 AM
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I am carrying way too many minor leaguers. Let me know if you have interest in any of them. And by minor leaguers I am including guys like Baez and Franco.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 11, 2014 8:17 AM
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I think eligibility is pretty straight forward (outlined near the top of the "Rules" page), the only quirk I know of is players that miss a year due to suspension or injury come back as Util-only.
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All three have SS eligibility for 2015 but it's possible none of them see a game there next year too
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Yeah I actually have no idea how eligibility works in this league.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 10, 2014 7:50 AM
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Don't know about bust but seems like all have a good chance to not be SS, no?
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For someone who tends to tank SS completely, I'm feeling pretty good about owning Baez, Santana, and Flores for $22 total. They can't all tank, right?
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 9, 2014 8:00 PM
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Scratch that Baez projection...Steamer actually projects 693 points (but with 29 HR)
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I really enjoyed the discussion on the podcast Trey & @ottoneutraderumors did this week. http://goo.gl/tkpXM4
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Steamer has Javier Baez scoring 836 points in 2015...which would have made him the #1 scoring SS in 2014
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Inflation increases have now been applied to players...
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Well....he technically *doesn't* come through in October.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 8, 2014 6:26 PM
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Cue the "doesn't come through in October" crowd...
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Matt Adams' game winning HR last night was the first HR Kershaw has allowed on a curveball to a lefty...in his career
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Thanks a bunch. Radically different conclusion on stability of LD% depending on which article you like more.
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I don't think this one is behind the paywall: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/a/14215
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What would we do without Nate?
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Most of the stuff I've seen on BP refers to this: http://statspeakmvn.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/525600-minutes-how-do-you-measure-a-player-in-a-year/
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Anyone know anything about how many PAs it takes for batted ball mix and plate discipline stats to normalize?
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Here's how arbitration went down last year... http://bit.ly/1utiKYt
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2015 Steamer projections are on player pages now...
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Pretty sure there are no auctions/adds until after the draft. Just arbitration, trades, cuts. Anyone cut now goes into the big draft pool.
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I don't think we have the ability to start player auctions now, before arbitration, but I'll check
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Am I allowed to add players before the arbitration process starts?
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Appreciate it
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At the top of http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx you can click "league stats" - that gives the overall averages, then you can filter by league, position, etc. as normal.
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Anyone know where on Fangraphs I can find league average advanced stats? Even better if sortable by position.
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I'm convinced that cascade effect will continue if those teams that choose to rebuild/retool by May are motivated towards 12th place by waiver priority. As we've seen, the extreme shedding of MLB talent will float to the top, not the middle teams.
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Nate's point about the cascade effect is spot-on -- huge parity between 1 and 12 causes teams 3-10 to cut their losses earlier and disengage from the league earlier. Not good.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 4, 2014 10:37 AM
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But I'd like to think we are over the hump with that and can have more teams in the mix on May 1 than we've had in the past.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 4, 2014 10:36 AM
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I'm confident we can get there in 2015. Top 30, top 20. We've had several complete tear-downs the past couple of years, sometimes a consequence of inheriting a team you did not build.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 4, 2014 10:36 AM
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That said....we have got to get more competitive. This league 168 that I'm in -- very few trades, very little overt engagement. But Nate has that league ranked a full 30 spots ahead of this one. That makes me sad.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 4, 2014 10:34 AM
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Speaking of data (hat tip to Nate), you guys can have fun with this: http://bit.ly/1sTCypu
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This is the kind of stuff that makes this the best fantasy league I have ever been involved in -- any sport.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 4, 2014 10:33 AM
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I haven't been nearly as engaged in these conversations as I would've liked. Going back a bit -- thanks a ton, Trey and Nate, for giving us all this data to dig into.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 4, 2014 10:33 AM
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Yeah, I sort of stick out like a sore thumb: http://bit.ly/1Ea5w78
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So much fun stuff here. Thanks to Trey for asking about cross-league trade data.
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Only 17 trade vetoes in fgpts history - 8 of those from one league (93)
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558 "official" (non-commish) trades executed since league inception. Second-most over all other fgpts leagues: 247.
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If we get threading I would name my first-born after Niv
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This discussion has made it clear to me that a change must be made...to the format of our league message board. Brutal. Niv, please help!
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I think last year it was around October 10th or 11th? Pretty sure it occurs before league arbitration
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When do the roster salary increases get applied?
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The gap between the #1 team and the #6 team in our league is going to be much wider than average (and less enjoyable) if we continue to have teams at the very bottom who don't/can't fill out a lineup just to get waiver priority
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Hence my thought that even a very attainable league "minimum" score of ~ 12,500 *could* benefit the overall competitiveness of the league...
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..especially if that "as high as possible" is still going to be 2,000+ out of first.
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...because as Trey pointed out, teams at the bottom scoring less generally means the teams at the top will score higher. Which creates less incentive for the "middle" teams to score as high as possible.
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Important to remember: tries to measure how hard it is to place high in a league. If owners implement a "score as little as possible" strategy to rebuild, the league's "competitiveness" declines...
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Speaking of "teams just need to get better", Nate has our league ranked 60th. Ouch. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/tb34VuOCVkEul8hQDHfCSFQ/htmlview
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