Schaefer 2016: New! Different! (Better?)

[Guest d'Kong76]

I have to admit, after goofin' on Z about it, I love it and use it too.
It's the little things in life haha.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Two-week warning: All games played through yesterday, April 17, will be closing in two weeks, on or about May 2. I'll post another reminder as the day draws closer. If you've been taking advantage of the longer window for voting and have some catching up to do, please be sure to do so in the next couple of weeks.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voters who have voted in five or more games:

[list:13xm8cje]TransMonk 11
Benjamin Grimm 11
TMF 11
Zvon 10
G-Fafif 9
OhSheaCanKC 9
86Dreamer 8
A Boy Named Seo 8
vic sage 8
Ashie62 8
Johnny 7
Fman99 6[/list:u:13xm8cje]

Frequent voters will be automatically enrolled in our Schaefer Loyalty Program, which will make you eligible to win valuable prizes, including AM Crunchwraps!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

"Johnny" has also voted under several other handles and I think is 11-for-11 this year.

[Benjamin Grimm]

If you want me to update the name on your earlier votes I can do that. (Just let me know which names you used on which games.) Because all this stuff is stored in a database now I'll be able to post end-of-season totals for each individual.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Please don;t do any extra work on my account!

[Guest themetfairy]

Crunchwraps may be a disincentive for voting

[TransMonk]

I'm trying to get my Schaefer groove back on for 2016 after not participating for a couple of years. I'm still looking to only vote in games I see with my eyeballs (which is hopefully mostly all of them).

I'm digging the new system for sure.

[Benjamin Grimm]

TransMonk wrote: I'm digging the new system for sure.

Glad to hear it! I actually thought the new method would discourage participation, because of the delay between when the game ends and when you can vote, and because there are no longer Schaefer threads floating around the forum to server as reminders. But so far that hasn't at all proven to be the case.

[ashie62]

• TransMonk 11
  Benjamin Grimm 11
  TMF 11
  Zvon 10
  G-Fafif 9
  OhSheaCanKC 9
  86Dreamer 8
  A Boy Named Seo 8
  vic sage 8
  Ashie62 8
  Johnny 7
  Fman99 6

Frequent voters will be automatically enrolled in our Schaefer Loyalty Program, which will make you eligible to win valuable prizes, including AM Crunchwraps!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Voters who have voted in five or more games:

More than double last year. Great work Grimm.

[metsmarathon]

I'm trying to update my spreadsheet to more automatically cull data from the box scores, and working out the kinks is taking a bit more time than I would like. but it's getting there, and should allow me to start participating more shortly.

I'm also tightening some of the knobs on the 'bot. he was using the wrong denominator in the first game, resulting in teensy tiny votes. silly robot.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I doled out 9 points in last night's (04/20) loss. I think that's the most
Schaefer I've ever poured in a loss after all these beers now.

Should this be in the Apropos of Schaefer Nothing thread?

[Benjamin Grimm]

So far, this experiment seems to be working.

Last year, the average number of votes per game hit an all-time low of 6.9753. As we can see, each season (with the exception of 2011) had a lower average than the preceding season. 2016, however, is currently on pace to have our best participation ever.

[list:1jpwaj73]2006 13.1914
2007 12.5988
2008 10.8025
2009 10.3086
2010 9.1420
2011 10.3704
2012 8.0617
2013 7.9074
2014 7.3148
2015 6.9753
2016 13.2142[/list:u:1jpwaj73]

The flip side of this, though, is that April is typically higher than the season average. I think that some voters stop voting once they miss a game or two and realize that they won't have a perfect voting record. Of course, that's not necessary. Infrequent voters are as welcome as the regulars.

Here are the April averages since 2006:

[list:1jpwaj73]2006 21.2917
2007 14.5000
2008 13.4000
2009 16.6667
2010 12.5652
2011 12.2963
2012 11.5652
2013 11.3600
2014 9.5600
2015 9.7391
2016 13.2142[/list:u:1jpwaj73]

While this isn't shaping up to be our best April ever, it's looking like it has a chance to be the best April in the last seven years.

Thanks to everyone who's been playing along!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for all games played between April 3 and April 17 will close next Tuesday morning, May 3, some time after 7 a.m.

[Centerfield]

themetfairy wrote: I'm loving the Check My Math feature!

Yup.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The reason that the voting form asks for your name is so that you don't vote twice. So please, don't vote twice for the same game!

I'm going to have some data fixing to do, but I'll do it tomorrow morning.

[Zvon]

Did I just do that? I was more behind than I thought, need to catch up.

[Zvon]

Oh yea, what a mess. Whoops.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's okay. I was able to fix it, but please be sure to check that you haven't already voted before voting again. Thanks!

Also, since I'm here in this thread, I'll post another reminder that all games played through April 17 will be closing on Tuesday morning, May 3.

[Edgy MD]

Someday, the UMDB will be a registration site, and we'll have to log in to vote Schaeffer or leave our dumb memories. But courageous Ben is working overtime to make sure that day isn't upon us just yet, doing all the policing and cleaning up that robots do at registration sites.

Ben Grimm, protecting us all from robots.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Not entirely, I'm afraid. Keep an eye out for one of the future Schaefer announcement graphics.

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

Edgy MD wrote: Ben Grimm, protecting us all from robots.

protection for humans from robots is not needed. robots have only the best of plans for humankind.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Schaefer Player of the Month award for April is being hotly contested. Your votes could definitely sway the results in this critical battle. Be sure to get caught up when you get the chance! All games played through April 17 will be closing on Tuesday morning, but the games from the second half of April will remain open for voting until the middle of May.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Benjamin Grimm]

SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK, 2016
Week ending April 9, 2016: Noah Syndergaard, 4.69 points.
Week ending April 16, 2016: Yoenis Cespedes, 7.95 points.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for all games played between April 18 and April 30 will close next Sunday morning, May 15, some time after 7 a.m.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Last call for all remaining games from April. Each game will be closed to further voting on Sunday morning. We'll also have the announcement for the April Players of the Month.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Benjamin Grimm]

SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK, 2016
Week ending April 9, 2016: Noah Syndergaard, 4.69 points.
Week ending April 16, 2016: Yoenis Cespedes, 7.95 points.
Week ending April 23, 2016: Curtis Granderson, 7.51 points.
Week ending April 30, 2016: Michael Conforto, 10.93 points.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Here's a list of people who have voted in five or more games, through Sunday's final game in Denver.

We have five people who have a perfect voting record so far, and one who's almost perfect.

Remember, the more you participate the better your chances of being rewarded with an AM Crunchwrap!

TMF 37
G-Fafif 37
Ashie62 37
OhSheaCanKC 37
Benjamin Grimm 37
TransMonk 36
Johnny 32
Zvon 22
LWFS 17
A Boy Named Seo 14
vic sage 13
86Dreamer 8
Edgy MD 8
Centerfield 6
Fman99 6
Mets Willets Point 5
soupcan 5