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Igarashi 3.9 Capuano 1.6 Gee 1.5 Paulino 1.3 Beltran 1.1 Murphy 0.5

Reyes 3.4 Beltran 2.7 Davis 2.2 Isringhausen 0.9 Pridie 0.6 Gee 0.2

HahnSolo wrote: It took until 2 months before his 8th birthday, but Little Solo finally uttered the words I dreaded hearing: "The Mets suck." It took the Paulino, Harris, Pridie nightmare to finally push him over the edge. yeesh. i concur.

that raises a good point. what return for a 7.0 WAR player would be considered equitable?

Gwreck wrote: call a cab. "you first!" athletes getting busted for DUI just don't get nearly as much vilification as they deserve.

so i generate three metrics in the course of my schaefer voting: 1. marathon points, which can be positive or negative and are deterministic. 2. schaefer points, which are the six highest marathon points for a given game, and are deterministic. 3. schaefer votes, which are those same schaefer points, scaled to 10 ok, really they're scaled to 9.5 with a 0.5 vote bonus to the highest vote-getter, unless the schaefer points don't total more than 19, in which case i just halve the schaefer points and nobody gets a bonus. its complicated... ike davis has about a 10% lead in each of these categories, with reyes, wright, and beltran taking second in each metric respectively. without winding up the 'bot, i can tell you that ike also has a 20% lead in both his voting and the baseline WPA metric. for summary: mpspsvbotwpaplayer 1davis82.8davis96.5davis22.6davis30.3davis1281player 2reyes66.5wright84.8beltran19.8wright23.8murphy744pitcher 1rodriguez41.7rodriguez48.7beato13beato6.9isringhausen413pitcher 2beato39.8beato39.3rodriguez10.5rodriguez6.5young278reliever 1rodriguez41.7rodriguez48.7beato13beato6.9isringhausen413reliever 2beato39.8beato39.3rodriguez10.5rodriguez6.5rodriguez235

Young 3.5 Beato 2.3 Buchholz 1.5 Paulino 1.4 Wright 0.8 Rodriguez 0.5

Beltran 2.0 Isringhausen 1.5 Murphy 1.0 Buchholz 0.5 Byrdak 0.5 Niese 0.2

Byrdak 4.7 Davis 2.6 Pridie 1.6

Davis 3.5 Beato 1.8 Beltran 1.6 Byrdak 1.3 Reyes 1.2 Thole 0.6

Murphy 4.3 Dickey 1.7 Turner 1.3 Rodriguez 1.3 Igarashi 0.6 Hu 0.4 Davis 0.4

Gwreck wrote: metsmarathon wrote: man. used to be you could call someone a fag and not be accused of a hate crime. i'm not complaining necessarily, but we're running out of insults. Yeah, but you'd still be a douchebag if you called someone that. Hey, look. That insult still works. I also like moron; that would fit someone using that term (now, or then) well too. moron 2. Psychology A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.

man. used to be you could call someone a fag and not be accused of a hate crime. i'm not complaining necessarily, but we're running out of insults.

Ceetar wrote: Although this is still less lame than changing your team name to a ray of light. electromagnetic radiation is way cool. is it a wave? is it a particle? is it both? you don't get any cooler than that unless you start stuffing cats into boxes.

Buchholz 2.6 Bay 1.9 Rodriguez 1.6 Murphy 1.3 Davis 1.3 Thole 1.3

Wright 3.6 Pridie 2.2 Niese 1.6 Davis 1.1 Beltran 0.8 Byrdak 0.7

Bay 2.9 Davis 1.5 Murphy 1.2 Rodriguez 1.1 Beato 0.9 Gee 0.8 Isringhausen 0.8 Wright 0.8

Pelfrey 4.3 Davis 2.5 Rodriguez 1.4 Isringhausen 1.0 Nickeas 0.4 Beltran 0.4

Capuano 3.9 Wright 2.4 Davis 1.3 Nickeas 1.2 Buchholz 1.0 Bay 0.2

Nymr83 wrote: why do you hate the hit and run more? just guessing... the batter tries too hard, swinging at bad balls, while the running isn't trying hard enough, looking to the plate instead of simply stealing the base?

i'd much prefer a one game playoff to a three-gamer. way more exciting, and better overall for scheduling. i don't want too much time off between rounds. i also think the current playoff scheduling is a farce. they should be playing 7 games in 8 days, not two weeks, or whatever it is. the playoffs should be as a continuation of the regular season in terms of pacing and scheduling. no modern pitcher should be getting three starts in a series with any semblance of his normal rest.

ooh, i like that one!

Comment From Tim If you got into a bar fight and had to pick one player to be by your side to help, who would it be? Andy McCullough: R.A. Dickey and I could reason with them. fuck that. i set frankie loose and sneak out in the melee, leaving me unscathed and also a hero to millions.

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!

Murphy 3.6 Beltran 2.2 Reyes 1.8 Wright 1.3 Isringhausen 0.9 Harris 0.2