metsmarathon

have i mentioned that i hate when i hear arguments for albert pujols as the MVP that begin with "take him out of the lineup and..." at that point, aren't we then just voting for the best player with middling teammates? and of course, how then do you reconcile that travis hafner gets left out of most AL discussions, despite his team being 68-75, which, when you think about it, isnt all that much worse than philly's 72-71. and then what that means is that your voting for the best player with middling teammates and mediocre in-division/in-league competition. put the phillies anywhere in the AL, and suddenly ryan howard is no longer an MVP candidate. ditto the cards and albert pujols. a corollary to this whole bitch-fest of mine is the notion that somehow, the mets are too good for carlos beltran to be an MVP. again, this award is not, to my right-thinking mind, meant to be a reflection of a players' teammates. its the dumbest thing in the world to me that jose reyes or david wright somehow makes carlos beltran less valuable, or scott rolen and pat burrell somehow make albert pujols and ryan howard more valuable. the most valuable player should be the player who contributes the most to a team's winning of games. does carlos beltran contribute less to the mets' winning of games because jose reyes or pedro martinez also contributes? over in the AL, i fail to see how jason varitek's injury and the collapse of the sox pitching staff in august makes david ortiz somehow less valuable, less productive, less contributing to the winning of baseball games than he would have been otherwise. and if we're going to be bsaing our MVP awards on whose team wins meaningful games down the stretch, and therefore carlos beltran is exempted from inclusion, then i fail to see how derek jeter is not also exempted from the discussion. i also fail to see how the supposed pundits can't see that the reason the yanks blew past the sox, aside from the afore-mentioned varitek injury and pitching implosion, was the addition of a motivated bobby abreu to a stacked lineup, moreso than any of jeter's mythical contributions. that said, based on my established criteria, jeter is probably the best MVP candidate in the AL, 30 win shares to mauer's 28, manny's 26, morneau's 25, and a host of 24's including santana, dye, and papi. because he has contributed the most, tangibly, to the winning of his teams' baseball games. (beltran 37, pujols 35, howard 7th with 28)

="seawolf17"]But I want them to clinch today. I want to come into work in blue and orange with my blinky Mets pin tomorrow. I've waited eighteen years for this. come to think of it, i've got something of a blue-and-orange theme going for me today...

shcaeffer reminds you to drink responsibly, and never ever to drink and drive.

the super-complicated, error-ridden formula grants me the ability to vote even without necessarily seeing the games!

i care enough to back-fill my spreadsheet even when i miss a month's worth of voting because of moving and vacations and workload.

nomo and yoshii weren't too bad for us... edit: 4 and 5 with a 4.82 era. scratch nomo. yoshii wasn't too bad for us.

quite simply, i overvalue innings pitched, and likely strikeouts, and have no method whereby i penalize starters for not tossing a quality start. i'd fix it, but then i'd have to go back and rescore every game, and the spreadsheet is a freakin' bear. it was NOT built with flexibility in mind. next year, my formula will hopefully be improved, to lessen the chances of this repeating. also, wright is a victim of rounding. perez had "prorated" 2.71 points, wright 1.28 i'm considering adding a decimal place next year as well.

Delgado 4 Perez 3 Wright 1 Floyd 1 Loduca 1

Beltran 3 Floyd 3 Milledge 2 Delgado 1 RHernandez 1

I figured i'd show my work for the 16-5 drubbing. apparently, 5 runs of offense and a decent inning's worth of work is enough to trigger a full ten points from me. the top six contributers in teh game were as follows. they recieved a total of 20.8 um... marathon... points. when the total exceeds 20, that means i have 10 schaeffer points to give out. a run is worth one point, a hit a quarter point, and so on. add up the points for each guy, then prorate to ten. then i round those prorated figures, usually up, to get whole number schaeffer points. i figured i'd post this to address any questions as to why i'm giving out so muh beer in such a lopsided loss. the shitty performance of dave williams (minus 11.75 marathon points) doesn't detract from the performance of those who actually tried to contribute. R H RBI BB SO LOB HR TB SF/SH GIDP SB CS E DP OF A Beltran 1 1 1 1 1 4 Milledge 1 1 1 2 Delgado 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Floyd 1 1 2 2 1 4 Chavez 1 1 multiplier >> 1 0.25 1 0.5 -0.25 -0.1 1 0.5 0.5 -0.5 0.5 -0.25 -1 0.25 0.5 sum prorate points Beltran 1 0.25 1 - - (0.1) 1 2.0 - - - - - - - 5.15 2.48 3 Milledge 1 0.25 1 - - - - 1.0 - - - - - - - 3.25 1.56 2 Delgado 1 0.25 1 0.5 (0.25) (0.1) - 0.5 - - - - - - - 2.90 1.39 1 Floyd 1 0.25 2 - (0.50) - 1 2.0 - - - - - - - 5.75 2.76 3 Chavez 1 - - 0.5 - - - - - - - - - - - 1.50 0.72 0 - - - IP H R ER BB SO HR IR IRS W L BS H SV - - - Rhernandez 1 1 1 2 1 - - - - - - multiplier >> 2 -0.25 -0.5 -0.5 -0.25 0.5 -0.5 0.5 -1 1 -5 -1 0.75 1.25 - - - Rhernandez 2 (0.25) - - - 0.5 - 1.0 (1) - - - - - 2.25 1.08 1 total 20.80 10.00 10 and if somebody could tell me why there's al lhtat blank space before my table, id really appreciate it. OE: never mind. i figured it out. its all the line breaks left in the coding for the table. interesting... better now.

the magic number just doesn't appreciate the great state of new jersey.

hey, i was just about to say that i hope the skyline makes it over to the next stadium, blacked out and beribboned wtc and all.

so.. wait... now whaddo we do for triple happinesses...?

and the governor calls with edgy's reprieve. cabrera strikes out on some high cheese. ding dong the witch is dead atlanta's awful streak is OVER!

and the payoff pitch is coming up after a brief conference on the mound.

cabrera up. 2 down. still 2 on.

edgy messes with kharma, and the inning is over.

tempting kharma, i see? i need to get the wifey a tvhead, tho the surgury looks risky.

and its pitching change time

spoke too soon. lodua now in the dugout, having been walked in thanks to endy.

loduca's on thrid now. sorry to ruin the suspense.

its fun messing with y'all gamedayers. wright shoulda been called out on strikes. i don't know how that missed the zone. oh well. i'm not complaining when my team gets the breaks...

wow.

i'll bet its something those of us who were threewhen it was installed didnt know either.

for selecting, i'd likely lean toward a win share methodology, or something similar. i'd personally lean away from weighting team records, but that's just my own pet peeve.