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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Reader bleg: WAR based points league, inc fielding, looking for owners
I feel like Craig’s list! Anyway, for those interested, details below the fold:
WAR based points league, inc fielding, looking for owners
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Draft this Sunday 23.00 GM
I used linear weights as the basis for the batting, FIP for the pitching, with a couple of adjusters, and what I could with the 6 ESPN fielding options.
For last year the top batters would have scored tops 8000. Using this scoring for last year Bautista, Pujols, Votto, Cabrera, Hamilton, Carlos Ganzalez, Konerko are the top 7. At 1000 points per WAR matches up quite well with batting, probably about 7-10 too high.
Starting pitching had Hernandez tops at 7000+ last year, followed by the usual suspects, Wainwright, Halladay, Josh Johnson, Jimenez, anout 2-5% low
Top relief pitcher was marmol at 3000 followed by Wagner, Wilson and Bell, immediately followed by the top set up men, Gregerson, Adams, Belisle, Thornton last year around 2200 ie 2.2 WAR which is spot on.
Fielding tops out at just over 2200 = 2.2 WAR, which is pretty close to MLB, and reflects fielding positional adjustments, and in general the best ones are toward the top, although it’s less accurate than the batting and pitching.
Scoring
Singles (1B) 47
Doubles (2B) 76
Triples (3B) 103
Home Runs (HR) 140
Walks (BB) 33
Stolen Bases (SB) 19
Strikeouts (K) -1.1
At Bats (AB) -23
Hits (H) 23
Intentional Walks (IBB) 15
Hit by Pitch (HBP) 35
Sacrifices (SAC) 13
Caught Stealing (CS) -48
Ground into Double Plays (GIDP) -35
Fielding
Fielding Chances (FC) 1.4
Put Outs (PO) 0.09
Assists (AST) 6
Outfield Assists (OFAST) 70
Errors (E) -50
Double Plays Turned (DPT) -19 (used as positional adjuster)
Pitching
Innings Pitched (IP) 27
Earned Runs (ER) -30
Saves (SV) 22
Strikeouts (K) 18
Hits Allowed (H) -13
Walks Issued (BB) -20
Hit Batsmen (HB) -13
Home Runs Allowed (HR) -56
Holds (HD) 19
Quality Starts (QS) 100
Innings pitched max 1450