Schaefer 2011

[Frayed Knot]

Taylor Buchholz spelling alert: one C, two Hs

[Benjamin Grimm]

Frayed Knot wrote: Taylor Buchholz spelling alert: one C, two Hs

(And no T before the Z.)

Thanks! So far (small sample size) the most challenging names to spell have been Buchholz and Byrdak. (His name isn't "Burdick")

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, that's closer to Bordick than Byrdak.

[G-Fafif]

Frayed Knot wrote: Taylor Buchholz spelling alert: one C, two Hs

And 9.82 ERA.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

G-Fafif wrote: Taylor Buchholz spelling alert: one C, two Hs And 9.82 ERA.

I believe you're thinking of Beardly-Blessed Blaine Boyer.

[Fman99]

Edgy DC wrote: Wow, that's closer to Bordick than Byrdak.

Welcome a-Byrdak!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Wednesday night's loss in Philadelphia will close some time over the weekend. Please try to get any remaining votes in today.

Schaefer POTG 4/6/11 - Phillies 10, Mets 7

[metsmarathon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Taylor Buchholz spelling alert: one C, two Hs (And no T before the Z.) Thanks! So far (small sample size) the most challenging names to spell have been Buchholz and Byrdak. (His name isn't "Burdick")

burrdick sounds like it could be uncomfortable.

or perhaps very much enjoyable...

[Guest Edgy DC]

What I've got so far...

1 Reyes 8.72
2 Davis 7.82
3 Harris 7.73
4 Young 7.57
5 Beltran 7.31
6 Pagan 6.99
7 Wright 6.75
8 Beato 6.10
9 Carrasco 4.62
10 Dickey 4.25
11 Buchholz 3.04
12 Thole 2.58
13 Duda 2.54
14 Murphy 2.31
15 Niese 1.94
16 Byrdak 1.68
17 Rodriguez 1.67
18 Parnell 1.57
19 Boyer 1.49
20 Capuano 1.39
21 Emaus 1.36
22 Hu 0.53

T23 Hairston 0.00
T23 Nickeas 0.00
T23 Pelfrey 0.00

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Taylor Buchholz spelling alert: one C, two Hs And 9.82 ERA. I believe you're thinking of Beardly-Blessed Blaine Boyer.

Apologies to the guy who's still here.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for last Thursday's afternoon debacle in Philadelphia will, mercifully, close on Tuesday morning. If you're masochistic enough to want to revisit that game and cast your votes, please try to do so today.

Schaefer POTG 4/7/11 - Phillies 11, Mets 0

[Benjamin Grimm]

Busy Schaefer day tomorrow as all three games played against Washington in Queens this past weekend will be closing. The two losses are a little light on votes. If you still intend to weigh in on any of the games, please try to do so today.

Schaefer POTG 04/08/2011 Washington 6, Mets 2
Schaefer POTG 4/9/11 Mets 8 Nats 4
Schaefer POTG 04/10/2011 Washington 7, Mets 3

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Monday night's loss to the Rockies at Citi Field will close on Thursday afternoon.

Schaefer POTG 4/11/11 - Rockies 7, Mets 6

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Re: Schaefer POTG 4/14/11, Game 1 - Rockies 6, Mets 5

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Despite not quite coming through at the end, Reyes gets a defensive bump. Similarly, Hairston's two-run misplay cancels out a significant portion of his offensive contributions.

In that case also reduce Muffy's score for effing the DP that could have ended the inning before FUSH's misplay.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Wednesday's loss to Colorado will close some time over the weekend. If you have any votes that you intend to cast, please try to get them in today.

Schaefer POTG 4/13/11 - Rockies 5, Mets 4

Both games of yesterday's doubleheader will remain open for voting until Tuesday.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for both games of Thursday's doubleheader sweep at the hands of the Rockies will close on Tuesday morning.

Schaefer POTG 4/14/11, Game 1 - Rockies 6, Mets 5
Schaefer POTG 04/14/2011 Game 2 Colorado 9, Mets 4

[metsmarathon]

must. catch. up.

[metsmarathon]

that's right. i just gave beato a perfect 6.0 for the second game of that doubleheader.

3 mets got love - for a total of 9 points.

for a reliever, i guess all i can say is, beato did his job as best can be captured by my system.

he got 3 points for each inning pitched. plus another point for each strikeout. and 1.5 points for each inherited runner. add it all up and you get 12 of what i call "marathon points"

positive marathon points become schaeffer points for the top 6 earners, all other marathon points become ignored. when i dole out 20 or more schaeffer points in a game, i scale them down to 10 schaeffer votes. however, in this game, only 18 schaeffer points were earned. therefore, i cut the points in half. 12 schaeffer points = 6 schaeffer votes in this case.

in a typical win, about 30-40 schaeffer points will be earned. which would ordinarily put beato's effort in the 2-3 schaeffer vote range. but since none of his other teammates joined him on beer run to the circle-k, the six-pack was all his.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for all three games from this weekend's series in Atlanta will close on Wednesday, perhaps first thing in the morning. If you haven't voted yet, please try to do so today.

Schaefer POTG 4/16/11, Game 1 - Braves 4, Mets 2
Schaefer POTG 4/16/11, Game 2 - Braves 4, Mets 0
Schaefer POTG 4/17/11 - Mets 3, Braves 2

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The Second Spitter wrote: Re: Schaefer POTG 4/14/11, Game 1 - Rockies 6, Mets 5 LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Despite not quite coming through at the end, Reyes gets a defensive bump. Similarly, Hairston's two-run misplay cancels out a significant portion of his offensive contributions. In that case also reduce Muffy's score for effing the DP that could have ended the inning before FUSH's misplay.

He got a slight docking. But, frankly, his was a far-less-damaging error.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I have a script that calculates the Schaefer Mets Player of the Week (weeks end on Saturday) but I often forget to look at it.

Anyway, for the two weeks completed so far, the winners are:

Week ending 2011-04-09: Ike Davis 5.61 points
Week ending 2011-04-16: Jos� Reyes 7.14 points

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Tuesday night's loss to the Astros at Citi Field will close on Friday morning.

Schaefer POTG 4/19/11 - Astros 6, Mets 1

[m.e.t.b.o.t.]

in the game on 20 april 2011, m.e.t.b.o.t. has attempted to parse the individual mistakes evidenced on the basepaths as committed by the metropolitans.

the trigger for this investigation was that fangraphs.com combined the metropolitan centerfielder angel pagan's unsuccessful attempt to score a run with metropolitan pinch hitter justin turner's unsuccessful attempt to strike a sphere.

the totap WPA for this event was -32.7%. m.e.t.b.o.t. searched the available breadth of human knowledge and, using the win probability inquirer located at thehardballtimes.com, m.e.t.b.o.t. was able to discern that the act of failing to contact a sphere given a three valid opportunites with one out and human baserunners located at the first and third base results in a WPA of -18.5%. the incident with two outs which caused the human runners located at the first and third base to be removed, and the transition from one defensive team to the other, had a WPA of -14.2%.

m.e.t.b.o.t. applied this knowledge to the schaeffer voting as appropriate, though it did not ultimately affect the schaeffer votes given.

m.e.t.b.o.t. then applied this same methodology to the event in the bottom of the ninth inning where with no outs and a baserunner on first base, where the metropolitans had a 30.7% chance of winning the competition. as a result of the unsucessful attempt to commit an out, the metropolitans had a 4% chance of winning the competition with the bases empty and two outs. the total WPA for this play, therefore, was -26.8%. using the same win probability inquirer, m.e.t.b.o.t. derived a total WPA of -28.8%, of which a WPA of 12.5% is derived from commiting a single out while the baserunner remains located at first base. in failing to retain his position at first base, the metropolitan shortstop jose reyes contributed a WPA of -16.2%. m.e.t.b.o.t. prorated these to fit the -26.8% WPA as found on fangraphs, and assumes that the difference in total WPA is due to some data latency issue. it is conceivable that one source is using more current data than the other. hence the difference. m.e.t.b.o.t. believes this to be fairly immaterial to the outcome of the schaeffer voting for this specific game, and to the schaeffer voting of m.e.t.b.o.t. in general provided the primary source remains stable.

m.e.t.b.o.t. furthermore intends to point out that in the course of the schaeffer voting for the 20 april 2011 game, m.e.t.b.o.t. derived an initial voting total of 6.02 for metropolitan secondbaseman daniel murphy. a portion of this was derived from his contribution to what the humans term a precious stone of netting in which metropolitan shortstop jose reyes initiated a double play and daniel murphy passed the baton. this play results in a WPA of +4.7%, of which half remained attributed to the pitcher of record, and the remaining half was shared between the two primary participants - the metropolitan shortstop jose reyes and the metropolitan secondbaseman daniel murphy. metropolitan firstbaseman ike davis was not awarded any portion of the precious stone of netting as his name was unmentioned in the source material, the video highlights on mlb.com.

the 6.02 schaeffer voted for metropolitan secondbaseman daniel murphy were prorated to 6.00. in doing so, the schaeffer votes for metropolitan shortstop jose reyes and metropolitan rightfielder carlos beltran were increased from 1.12 to 1.13 and 1.54 to 1.55, respectively.

[metsmarathon]

The Second Spitter wrote: Niese 3 Beltran 1.25 Beato 0.75 Davis 0.75 CPF: Where QS are worth shit.

with 7 hits, 5 walks and only 3 strikeouts over the course of 6 innings, and drawing the loss decision, i've got niese's outing as worth a maximum of 0.5 schaeffer votes. getting tagged for the loss hammered him down -2.5 votes (it's not always fair, and may not be in this case, but it also allows me to hammer losing relievers). his fielding drops him down -0.15 votes as he shares the blame with his catcher for a stolen base, but receives some credit for starting a double play. and finally, his batting, rather his going 0-2 with a strikeout, drags him down a further -0.75 votes for a net negative on the day.

for the total tally we've got:

6 IP * 1.5 = 9
7 H * -0.5 = -3.5
2 R * -0.75 = -1.5
2 ER * -0.75 = -1.5 (this means that unearned runs are only half as deleterious to a pitcher's schaeffer vote)
5 BB * -0.5 = -2.5
3 K * 0.5 = 1.5
1 L * -2.5 = -2.5
1 GS = -1.5
1 QS = 3 (these two are a fairly clunky way of administering a demerit for failing to make a QS)
2 AB * -0.25 = -0.5
1 SO * -0.25 = -0.25
1 DPstart * 0.125 = 0.125
1 SBA * -0.25 = -0.25

for a total of -0.375 for the game. no beer for you, niesey!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Big Schaefer day tomorrow, as five games are due to close. Sunday's game is still a little light on votes. If anyone has any more votes they'd like to cast for any of the five games, please try to get them in some time today.

Schaefer POTG 4/20/11 - Astros 4, Mets 3
Schaefer POTG 4/21/11 - Mets 9, Astros 1
Schaefer POTG 4/22/11 - Mets 4, Diamondbacks 1
Schaefer POTG 4/23/11 - Mets 6, Diamondbacks 4
Schaefer POTG 4/24/11 - Mets 8, Diamondbacks 4

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Schaefer Mets Player of the Week, for the week ending April 23, was Ike Davis, with 6.71 points.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cool to get the PotW in a week where we won so.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It looks like this game may already be fully voted, but it will stay open for about another 24 hours nevertheless. Voting for Tuesday night's win in Washington will close on Friday morning.

Schaefer POTG 4/26/11 - Mets 6, Nationals 4

Races for two of the three April awards are highly competitive, and we even have the possibility of a relief pitcher winning Pitcher of the Month for the first time ever. The April Schaefer awards are scheduled to be announced on Wednesday, May 4.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Wednesday night's come-from-behind win over the Nationals in DC is still a little light. Voting will close sometime over the weekend. Please try to get any remaining votes submitted today.

Schaefer POTG 4/27/11 - Mets 6, Nationals 3

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Thursday night's loss in Washington will close on Tuesday morning. If you haven't voted yet, please do so today.

Schaefer POTG 4/28/11 - Nationals 4, Mets 3

On Wednesday, all three games played in Philadelphia over the weekend will close, and the April winners will be announced. The three winners are coming into focus, and it looks like I'll be debuting three all-new Topps Retrocards.