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Taking up catching, too, I see.


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with 26 players appearing in the 9/11 game, i was forced to disappear pinch runner chris capuano from my uber spreadsheet, which is set up to only handle 25 players in a given game. had he done anything to merit anything that might appear on a box score, i would've been in trouble. though, had he done something silly like scoring a winning run, there would've been a lot fewer appearances for me to worry about.

also, in the 9/10 game, i actually have his performance as worth a surprising 6.6 schaefer votes (credit the pickoff). those 0.6 points were distributed among the other 5 sip-worthy players.


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in the 17 september game, m.e.t.b.o.t. did not award any schaefer votes to metropolitan pitcher r.a. dickey. while the random aerodynamic behavior of his knuckleball produced positive results in limiting hte atlanta braves to a single run scored, in total, the metropolitan pitcher r.a. dickey netted a total of +0.157 WPA from the mound. this positive contribution was almost entirely negated by his -0.155 WPA as a batter. furthermore, since the metropolitan defensive player committed web gems* behind him, the WPA for these plays was split between the specific defensive player and the pitcher. specifically:

in the second inning, with two outs and hte bases empty, atlanta shortstop alex gonzalez hit a foul popup which metropolitan catcher josh thole successfully caught for the out. this was a 0.011 WPA play. accordingly, 0.0055 WPA were debited from metropolitan pitcher r.a. dickey and credited to metropolitan catcher josh thole.

in the sixth inning, with no outs and the bases empty, atlanta pitcher tim hudson hit a line drive into left field, where metropolitan left fielder jason bay dove for the ball and succesfully caught it for hte out. this was a 0.033 WPA play. accordingly, 0.0165 WPA were debited from metropolitan pitcher r.a. dickey and credited to metropolitan left fielder jason bay.

in the eighth inning, with 1 out and atlanta baserunner jason heyward on second base, atlanta outfielder michael bourn hit a ground ball to second base, where metropolitan secondbaseman dove for, stopped the ball, and threw to first for the out. this was a 0.056 WPA play. accordingly, 0.028 WPA were debited from metropolitan pitcher r.a. dickey and credited to metropolitan secondbaseman reuben tejada.

the sum total of WPA debited from metropolitan pitcher r.a. dickey was 0.051 WPA, which reduced his total from +0.002 to -0.049 WPA, and therefore disqualified him from receiving any schaefer votes.

*m.e.t.b.o.t. relies on the video highlights from mlb.com to determine whether a defensive effort is considered a web gem, regardless of the fact that the term originated on the baseball tonight program on espn.com. m.e.t.b.o.t. places the blame for this intermingling of brands on the developer of the m.e.t.b.o.t. programming algorithms, in which m.e.t.b.o.t. has little input and over which m.e.t.b.o.t. has no control. if a defensive play is noteworthy enough to merit inclusion in the mlb video highlights for a given game, then it is considred to be evidence of an exemplary defenisve effort, and therefore the defensive player should be awarded a share of the WPA derived from the play. a similar adjustment is made for errors committed by defensive players, only here, the defensive players assume the entireity of the WPA derived from the play.

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in the 20 september game, metropolitan outfielder angel pagan produced a total of +0.390 WPA. this scaled to 6.21 schaefer votes, which exceeds the mximum per-player threshold. accordingly, m.e.t.b.o.t scaled his contribution down to the 6.00 threshold value. m.e.t.b.o.t. does this by inserting a -0.033 WPA into his ledger. this resulted in the remaining positive WPA contributors receiving a slight increase in their schaefer votes. most notably, metropolitan catcher josh thole received an increase from 1.72 to 1.82 WPA. all other increases were lesser. the total schaefer vote for the 20 september game remained at 10.00. had the unadjusted total positive WPA for the game been reduced to less than +0.250, then fewer than 10.00 total points would have been awarded for the game. however, since the subject game saw a total unadjusted positive WPA of +0.628, the total schaefer vote remained at 10.00.


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Benjamin Grimm

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We're nearing the end of the line...

All three games played against the Phillies at Citi Field this past weekend will close on Wednesday morning. Please try to get any outstanding votes submitted some time today.

Final Schaefer winners for September, and for the 2011 season, will be announced on Friday.

Schaefer POTG 9/24/11, Game 1 - Mets 2, Phillies 1
Schaefer POTG 9/24/11, Game 2 - Mets 6, Phillies 3
Schaefer POTG 9/25/11 - Phillies 9, Mets 4


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not that it matters all that much at this point, but coming into a game with the bases loaded and no outs and with your team up by a run, and not only getting out of the inning unscathed but also retiring the first batter in the next inning before getting pulled for a situational matchup that didn't work out terribly well has got to be worth more than 1 schaefer vote, especially when there aren't all that many other players tapping the keg.

fwiw, using my proprietary spreadsheet, i have this as the biggest relief performance in a 9-inning game, bested only by a pair of extra inning efforts by pedro beato. my little mechanical buddy also sees this as the top relief outing in a 9-inning game, bested only by pedro beato's may day extra inning affair.

granted i've given out way more beer to relievers than the 3.0 votes iggy gets from me today, as those things are scaled. but he's my top performer in the 26 september game. it's hard to get more or better from your middle relief pitcher.


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i actually have batista down for 7.4 schaefer votes in the final game, but with the 6 point cap, i've reallocated it to the other guys. that's the highest schaefer vote total i've generated this year, and hi 42.5 "marathon point" performance (which is scaled relative to the other five top performers of the game to a 10-point base level) was the second best performance of hte season, bested only by capuano's 45.75 marathon point effort on 26 august.

this performance displaced taylor buchholz as my 30th most schaeferly-voted met in 2011 (which inclodes both games that i did not vote in, and points above the 6 point cap)


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