THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Cool.  Where do we sign up?

I think you can access the league directly: http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/46377

If not, go through yahoo’s front door

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1

and browse through the dates for live auction drafts until you reach March 20th.

Here’s a direct link to the apply-to-join page:

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/46377/applytojoin

Please remove this post if the owner doesn’t want this link here.

James

Can someone post the scoring settings please? I’m wondering if they are the same as the thread from last year:

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/yahoo_fantasy_linear_weights_league/

Thanks,
Matt

Specifically, there was a lot of debate in that last thread. I’m wondering what the final settings turned out to be.

Thanks,
Matt

Matt,

Your link is to the same 2008 thread as mine, and those are the values I used from Tango.

There was a more recent thread(s) with others proposing other values. I didn’t use those.

Fangraphs is now sponsoring a keeper league that uses other values.

From what I understand the worry is that with Tango’s values you’ll be better off rostering an injured or benched catcher, for example, than playing a mediocre catcher. The injured catcher earns 0 points; the mediocre catcher, negative points.

Laffitt

I saw the .9 and .8 in the values and I was annoyed.  It adds a level of precision that I think is irrelevant.  No decision will be impacted if you make the SB 2 instead of 1.9.  So why not keep it at 2?

Thanks for the follow-up. I found someone who uses this system on twitter and they sent me the specs.

For those reading this and wondering the same thing I was, the scoring system is being used here:

http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/support

I didn’t directly to his league site because I didn’t think it’d be appropriate to make public, but there is a link to it on the ottoneu site.

Thanks,
Matt

The league is full at 12. Thanks to Tango for posting!

Laffitt