It's almost Schaefer time

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Elster88 wrote: Let's just leave it alone. The system of creating threads is just fine.

I concur.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Do I sense a backlash against the poll voting? I'm not looking to clutter up the board, but cooby requested the old system be implemented in addition to the Schaeffer POTG and I hate to see her disappointed. I will run it for a few weeks at the start of the season. I guess member participation will determine whether or not the polls will remain beyond that point.

Besides, there seemed to be a great deal of discussion last season as to which method of POTG voting people preferred. Personally, I like both and think it will be interesting to see how the voting outcomes compare with one another.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

No backlash from me - I enjoy it.

[Zvon]

Looking foward to Schaefer time again.

[Centerfield]

Yancy,

The new rules sound perfect. You're right, a lot of times, I just couldn't come up with 10 points, which is what kept me from voting. I'm looking forward to it.

And thanks for your hard work.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

You're welcome! But it would probably be more accurate to say, "Thanks for your work." If it was hard work I probably wouldn't be doing it!

I'm looking forward to it, too.

I know we never did that press release, but has anybody sent David Wright a six-pack of Schaefer? Is he even old enough to drink it legally?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

In the past week, I made some nice enhancements to my magic spreadsheet, which will make the tallying much easier for me. I'm also going to be able to leverage the UMDB. There will be a web page we can all go to to see game-by-game voting results, as well as monthly and yearly totals that will automatically update when each game is tallied.

So all I have to do is copy and paste the entire thread into a spreadsheet, run a couple of macros, and paste the output into the UMDB. This will insert into the database, update the monthly and season totals, and generate the HTML for me to paste into the thread.

I'll also expose the raw data, so if anybody wants to import into Excel and play around with it, they'll be able to.

Since this is going to be so much easier for me, I plan to keep it easy. Whereas last year I'd ask people to revise or clarify their votes if they allocated too many or too few points, I won't be doing that anymore. There's no longer any such thing as too few, but if anyone goes over the spreadsheet will automatically prorate the votes down to 10 points.

Also, if anyone's vote is unclear, I'm just going to discard it. I'll no longer post messages in the voting threads that say things like, "Harvey123, please clarify your vote for Carlos. I can't tell if it's Beltran or Delgado." If your vote is unclear it won't be counted. Now that the Mets actually have a guy named Chad, I don't want any voting irregularities!

I think this should be pretty cool: easier for me and more informative for everybody.

Voting starts on Monday! Be there or be square!

[Guest Edgy DC]

So will the UMDB pages for each game display a Crane Pool Schaefer PotG?

Harvey123 is a such pain.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: So will the UMDB pages for each game display a Crane Pool Schaefer PotG?

Not at first, but that's a definite possibility.

Do we like that idea?

[Elster88]

It'll certainly generate more forum buzz, if you include a link under some sort of "Explanation of Crane Pool Schaefer" header.

[Guest KC]

I do, especially if we get some new meat around here - not that I don't like
the old meat.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Can you also set that sucker up to tally "The Refeshment Index" -- that is, Schaefer Points Per IP (pitchers) and PA (hitters?). If not I volunteer to tally that sucker with pencil and paper monthly.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

You should be able to get that from the raw data that will be posted. The problem is if a guy pitches 2 innings and doesn't get any votes, he won't generate any data.

Here's an example of what the one-game tallies will look like, at least when the UMDB box scores are up-to-date with the Schaefer stuff. (That will be somewhat hit and miss, but there's going to be a page where you can look up old games once the box scores are online.)

Here's one of the two 2005 games that are, for now, in the UMDB:

Totals for September 30, 2005 (8 votes)
New York Mets 3, Colorado Rockies 2

Name	Total Points	Points Awarded	Player Performance
Kris Benson	34.60	4.33	(W) 7.1 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO.
Marlon Anderson	15.55	1.94	2-3, 2 R, RBI, BB.
Mike Jacobs	14.25	1.78	2-4, R, RBI, BB.
Aaron Heilman	13.50	1.69	(Sv) 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO.
David Wright	0.80	0.10	1-3.
Jos� Reyes	0.80	0.10	1-4.
Cliff Floyd	0.25	0.03	0-3.
Carlos Beltran	0.25	0.03	1-4.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Here's what it's gonna look like.

Right now there's two games worth of 2005 data. I'll clear that out once there's 2006 stuff.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mexellent!

[Guest Giant Squidlike Creature]

Someone asked for the rules. Here they are.