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Monday, February 06, 2012
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Poll: Yu, Felix, Strasburg, Kershaw?
NOTE: Presume all of these pitchers are free agents.
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Poll: how to credit a play against a pitcher when involving his fielders
Here’s the play.
If you can’t see it: Cliff Lee has runners on 2B and 3B with 2 outs. He gives up a solid line drive hit to short LF, that Ibanez gets to on one hop. Runner on 3B scores easily, and Ibanez gives it his all, throws a strike to Ruiz, who gets a solid collision from the runner, but holds on to the ball for the third out.
Cliff Lee didn’t go anything good on that play. His pitch was going to be a called ball, but the batter thought he could drive the ball anyway. No LF could have turned that play into an out. Ibanez made likely his best throw ever. Ruiz was the perfect catcher in terms of blocking the plate and holding the runner.
And yet the boxscore is going to show that Lee gave up only 1 run on that play and that he got an out (1/3 of an inning) on that play.
So, the question is what does Cliff Lee DESERVE in terms of credit.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Poll: You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which youngster do you sign for the next 4 years?
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Poll: Equivalent Players
Suppose all players are signed for one year. And, all players are paid only at the end of the season. A pure pay-for-performance setup. The league handles all payments.
There are seven teams (Team A through Team G) that have as players the following 5 players (who have played 160, 140, 120, 100, 80 games).
Games A.... B.... C.... D.... E.... F.... G....
160 120 120 120 120 120 120 120
140 105 107 109 110 113 116 120
120 090 094 098 100 106 112 120
100 075 081 086 090 099 108 120
080 060 068 075 080 092 104 120
The numbers represent the runs created by each player. So, Team A has the 100 game player creating 75 runs, but Team G has their 100 game player creating 120 runs.
The average player generates 0.5 runs per game.
The salary of the above 160 game (120 Runs Created) players has already been set at 20MM$.
For which Team would you have the league pay exactly 20MM$ for each of the five players? That is, for which Team do you find that the five players listed are equivalent to each other, in terms of their past performance?
Friday, August 19, 2011
Pitcher X is 13-4, 2.00 ERA, 153 IP. For CY YOUNG voting, you place him right BELOW which pitcher?
(Note: presume the league average starting pitcher is a .500 pitcher, with a 4.00 ERA.)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Poll: Player X created 105 runs in 105 games. AFTER which player would you slot him in, wrt MVP?
(Note: presume the league average player would create 81 runs in 162 games.)
Friday, August 05, 2011
Poll: Strasburg 2012 (Two polls)
Note: You take the number of runs he’ll allow per game, and divide that by the league average. So, if he allows runs at half the league average, that means an index of 0.50. If he allows runs at 20% higher than league average, that’s 1.20. If he allows runs at the league average, that’s 1.00.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Poll: (Part 3) You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which do you sign today through 2015?
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Poll: You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which youngster do you sign today through 2015?
Four polls:
Monday, June 13, 2011
Poll: For any ten-year period, I like to see __ number of players voted in the Hall of Fame
Friday, June 10, 2011
Poll: If a game was scheduled to start at 19:00, what is the latest start you can accept due to rain
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Poll: What is the ratio of caught foul tips to dropped foul tips by a catcher?
A reader asked me to crowdsource this. This is like one of those jellybeans in a jar experiment. We really don’t think much of it, but get a crowd together, and maybe we can figure it out. If you have real data, DON’T post it in this thread. Wait a day or two for that (or send it to me).
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Community Playing Time Forecasts 2011 - Last Call
Last chance to fill out the survey:
http://www.tangotiger.net/survey/
Please take a few minutes and let us know how much the players on your team are going to play. A couple of more fans of the Astros, Marlins, and Royals would be appreciated.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Community Playing Time Forecast 2011
#tangosurvey
http://www.tangotiger.net/survey/
Please take a few minutes and let us know how much the players on your team are going to play.
And please, help spread the word!
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I should have added: thank you very much for all the time you guys spend on filling it out. It’s a huge benefit to me and, really, to everyone else, not only for this year, but in a historical sense, for posterity.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Poll: I DO follow the NHL, and my preference for number of teams in the playoffs is…
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