FOOL 2121 Regular Season Thread

[Alan T]

League Leaders AVG G. Kishita - TOK .344 2 R. Marín BRK .339 3 M. Callaghan BAL .334 4 M. Ishii HAR .330 5 E. Armando BAL .328	League Leaders HR M. Ishii - HAR 47 2 G. Guerrero HAR 43 3 E. Zambrano ANN 40 4 J. González HAR 38 4 2 more tied with 38	League Leaders RBI M. Ishii - HAR 139 2 A. Martínez BRK 137 3 E. Zambrano ANN 130 4 P. O'Slattery COL 129 5 V. Lópes LAN 126
League Leaders W Q. Gou - TOK 20 2 J. Pérez LAN 18 3 V. Hart HAR 17 3 L. Lloyd HAL 17 3 S. Wheeler HAR 17	League Leaders ERA J. Pérez - LAN 2.61 2 D. Sentner NOB 2.79 3 K. Kojima APX 2.84 4 D. Harper NVY 2.95 5 2 tied with 3.09	League Leaders K A. Thibeault - ANN 223 2 M. Gómez BRK 213 3 M. King CHI 204 4 T. Fletcher CHI 200 5 V. Hart HAR 193

[Alan T]

The new file is up! Playoffs run tomorrow

[Alan T]

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Batters) (Hitter that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Goro Kishita TOK 68.9281 100000 68.93

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Veteran Batters) (Veteran hitter that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Bartolo Durán BRK 28.6489 100000 28.65

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Pitchers) (Pitcher that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Jackson James TOR 42.465 100000 42.46

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Veteran Pitchers) (Veteran pitcher that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Alejandro Cruz TOR 27.0895 167200 16.20

Worst Bang for the Buck Award(Batters) (For the most overpaid hitter in the league.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Wen-huan Guao HAL -15.5666 1472500 -2292181850000.00

Worst Bang for the Buck Award(Pitchers) (For the most overpaid pitcher in the league.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Timo Kamphuis BRK -36.2829 7160000 -25978556400000.00

Home Run or Nothing Award (For the hitter that hit home runs and not much else.)
Name Team HR RC Score Roy Mitchell NOB 12 18.394353 0.4226

Selfish Pitcher Award (For the pitcher that has all of the headlines but none of the wins.)
Name Team W L K BB IP Score Marc Naud NVY 8 16 147 105 171.0 11553.6842

Unluckiest Pitcher Award (For the pitcher that would likely win an award if on a better team.)
Name Team W L K BB IP Score Tom Fletcher CHI 8 16 200 62 248.0 1082.25000216

Running on Empty Award (For the baserunner that keeps attempting to steal and fails.)
Name Team SB CS SB % Score Eric Hebert CHI 15 16 0.4839 6.70

Can't hit his weight Award (For the hitter that can't even hit his weight.)
Name Team Weight Batting Avg. Score Thomas Wilder NOB 245 lbs 0.173 0.70728652

Should have stayed home Award (Batters) (For the Hitter that did so poorly he should have just stayed home.)
Name Team Batting Avg. HR RBI VORP Thomas Wilder NOB 0.173 7 36 -23.6893

Should have stayed home Award (Pitchers) (For the Pitcher that did so poorly he should have just stayed home.)
Name Team W L ERA VORP Manny Rivera BRK 10 13 5.65 -41.5537

Stone Statue Award (For the Shortstop that had so little range that he resembled a statue.)
Name Team Total Chances Assists Put Outs Range Augustin Cadieux NVY 420 230 149 3.7197

Cannon-Arm Award (For the Catcher that showed off the best cannon-arm in games.)
Name Team SB attempts against Runners Thrown Out RTO% Score Michael Kirkup HAL 32 17 0.5313 41.6

Early Checkout Award (For the Starting pitcher that left games the earliest.)
Name Team W L ERA GS IP Score Steve Adams ANN 5 19 6.48 40 168.0 0.2381

Never met a pitch he didn't like award (For the Hitter that never liked to watch a pitch go by without hitting it.)
Name Team Batting Avg. H BB Score Manabu Ishii HAR 0.330 223 26 197

Take the Money and Run Award (Batters) (For the Hitter that stopped showing effort after signing a large contract.)
Name Team Contract Batting Avg. HR RBI Score Jerry Phillips TOK 7012500 0.265 19 58 37.3356

Take the Money and Run Award (Pitchers) (For the Pitcher that stopped showing effort after signing a large contract.)
Name Team Contract Wins Losses ERA Score Timo Kamphuis BRK 7160000 11 13 5.38 83.8714

Anger Management Award (For the pitcher that hit the most batters during the season.)

Name Team W L IP Hit Batters Luis Flores LAN 7 14 184.0 40

[hyde4us11]

Nice, Iishi won the RL triple crown. Ladie and gentlemen he could be had after this season as well. I am loaded at 1B so going to look at what I can get.

[CrimsonFox]

This is your answer, kids. It won't let you do a 4 man roster. Went from a game out of 1st to 5th. Yuk. Can't go the distance. Thanks for runnin alan.

[Johnny93g]

We took some big age hits this season. Kishitia, Hood, Otero, and worst of all Jorge Franco. Might be time to rebuild instead of reload. Congrats to the playoff teams and good luck tommorow

[CrimsonFox]

congrats to hartford, colorado, baltimore, and apex!

I think of the four of them i think colorado is the most due correct? That is has gone the most years without winning/an appearance.
I don't know about total titles tho. If Apex went back to back I wouldn't be unhappy.

[CrimsonFox]

your pitchers get hammered Johnny? Do a 4 man rotation too did you?

[Johnny93g]

Naw, i typically stick to a 5 man rotation with the option of starting the highest rested starter. I've experimented with 4 man rotation's and even a 3 man rotation for the playoffs, and unless i have a reason to do it, (a serious lack of starting pitching depth) I stay away.

[CrimsonFox]

yeah i tried that really cause I didn't think I was a contender this year and REALLY didn't have a good 5th pitcher.

[ekcut]

I have found that using a 4 man rotation gets a starter 8 more starts in a season, but only about 15-20 more IPs.
I don't have any hard and fast rules on when I use 4 or when I use 5...which I would estimate I do 50-50. I tend to fly by the seat of my pants and use hunches and chrystal balls, but generally my bullpen dictates more then my SP's whether I go 4 or 5.

But let's look at it from a statistical point of view....
A team averages 1450IP per season.
A small sample (3yrs) of when I used 4 man rotation has 205IP averaged for my starters, which means my starters pitched 820 innings, and my bullpen pitched 630 innings.
For a 3 year sample of using a 5man rotation my starters averaged 190IP in those years. That means my starters pitched 950 innings and my bullpen 500 innings.

So by using a 4 man rotation, it means my bullpen pitches on average 130 innings more then when using a 5 man rotation. So the big question to ask is not necessarily if you have 5 good enough starters, but whether your bullpen is deep enough and talented enough to pitch those extra innings!!

[hyde4us11]

I won't ever use a 4 man rotation but I must say that anything backed up with numbers like that Eric. Nice to see you studied the numbers here.

[CrimsonFox]

Yeah I knew it was a longshot but as I didn't think I had a strong group of hitters this year, I think I was just padding stats of my good pitchers. I'll check if that worked. Awesome analysis eric.

And I really didn't have a good 5th pitcher for SP. The one I had just had HORRIBLE numbers and screwed my team up last year as lot. So I was just rolling the dice that it might work. And again, it did until the last month and a half. (now to be renamed Failtober. )