Comments on Fantasy Baseball: How Do You Value Fantasy Baseball Hitters?

hey lou -glad you liked the series. no need to ge...

2008-01-22T20:44:00.000-08:00

hey lou -
glad you liked the series. no need to get too caught up in the math - the point of our player rater was trying to come up with relevant increments for when to credit or penalize a player's totals vs. a replacement player.

for starters, we found tha the average BAO (best available option in free agency) had an ERA of 4.15 and WHIP of 1.34 over 191 innings. We then came

Thanks for the props. You the site now, that's goo...

2008-01-19T01:14:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the props. You the site now, that's good for the upcoming season.

Waiting on Rudy to answer your question, and he's in Vegas. Betting the Giants probably.

This series was superb. Wish I had found this sti...

2008-01-18T12:09:00.000-08:00

This series was superb. Wish I had found this stie sooner.

Anway, I like the idea of using StDev but I fall off the table a bit with the math when looking at pitchers for the ERA and WHIP scores. This is because the lower the number the better - how do you equate lowest number to highest point total?

Thanks
Lou

We weren't able to fully decode their calculations...

2007-12-16T10:47:00.000-08:00

We weren't able to fully decode their calculations.

We dug the most into AVG and, like ours, it looks like it factors in AVG and AB.

I think the calculation was something like:

(Player AVG - .153) / .153 * 5 * (Some AB factor)

.153 represents the difference in average b/w Magglio Ordonez (5.0 points) and Nick Punto (0.01 points).

For 2nd place Ichiro,

Your article shows how ESPN's Player Rater calcula...

2007-12-15T20:11:00.000-08:00

Your article shows how ESPN's Player Rater calculates R, HR, RBI, & SB, but regarding AVG it just says that ESPN does it in a slightly more complicated way - How exactly do they calculate their 0 to 5 scale for AVG? And for that matter, how do they do it for ERA & WHIP?