Bang for the Buck: Pitchers
River Avenue Blues —
... strategy briefly at Newsday yesterday. The Yanks have been spending too much money and not getting enough results for years now, and the answer continues to be spend more money. At some point, something has to give.
If you’re interested in reading more about the values of free agents and draft picks, and I suggest checking out these posts by TusconRoyal at Beyond the Box Score and Vincent Wang at THT, respectively. Beyond the Box Score also posted a spreadsheet today that will allow you to calculate these values for yourself. ...
Federal Baseball goes to WAR! (A FederalBaseball.com community project)
Federal Baseball —
... So, here's the deal. The guys at BtB have developed a spreadsheet. You put in a list of players and how well you think they'll play, and it spits out how many Wins Above Replacement value (WAR) your team will have (that is, how much better would your team be than a roster of 25 Brad Wilkersons, or whatever his equivalent is at each position). ...
Travel Day
Three Days of Cryin' —
... In our short absence, we hope that you’ll participate in this day long exercise. Plug some Angels in to the spreadsheet and rejoice or despair as you see fit. Enjoy. ...
Links: Ollie's ice cream, Lederer vs. Heyman, 2008 Mets WAR, and HBO
Mets Tailgate —
... , using the WAR ("wins above replacement") spreadsheet from Beyond the Boxscore. Read the post for more details, but WAR says the Mets were an 87 win team in 2008. In reality, they won 89. Pretty close right? WAR is not 100% infallible, but I think it's the best all-encompassing stat we have easy access to. ...
Baseball's back, baby!
Viva El Birdos —
... So I wanted to take a look at the division’s starting rotations and their projected WAR. To help me calculate WAR, I used Sky Kalkman’s (of BtB fame) WAR spreadsheet. I used BP’s projected starting rotations from their ...
Friday Morning Rangers Notes: Millwood, Murphy & Pitching Projections
Baseball Time in Arlington —
... into Sky Kalkman's wins above replacement spreadsheet, then utilized the ERA projections from two popular player forecasting systems -- Baseball Prospectus's PECOTA and Sean Smith's CHONE -- and tallied the ...
NL East WAR Projections: Starting Rotations
Amazin' Avenue —
... and WAR was calculated using Sky Kalkman's spreadsheet. For innings pitched and ERA values I averaged the Bill James, CHONE and Miner projections available at ...
NL East WAR Projections: Infielders
Amazin' Avenue —
... to fill in the gaps of my pitiful knowledge of other teams' players; I've used Sky's awesome WAR spreadsheet to do what my fourth-grade math skills cannot; I've also averaged the projections available at ...
Mets Spring Training Batter WAR
Amazin' Avenue —
... Me? I plugged these meaningless numbers into Sky Kalkman's WAR spreadsheet to see how valuable these cats have been. Pointless? You betcha. Still kinda neat despite (or because of) its pointlessness? Fo sho. ...
NL West Outlook: Catchers
True Blue LA —
... I'll be ranking the teams based on their total projected 2009 WAR (wins above replacement) for each position. I'll be using the spreadsheet provided here by Beyond the Box Score. Marcels projections will be used to project playing time. If correct playing time is not being accounted for in the projections, I will adjust the plate appearances to equal projected playing time . I will calculate wOBA by averaging the wOBAs projected by Marcels, CHONE and ZiPS. For fielding I will use the projections provided ...
NL West Outlook: 1st Basemen
True Blue LA —
... I'll be ranking the teams based on their total projected 2009 WAR (wins above replacement) for each position. I'll be using the spreadsheet provided here by Beyond the Box Score. Marcels projections will be used to project playing time. If correct playing time is not being accounted for in the projections, I will adjust the plate appearances to equal projected playing time . I will calculate wOBA by averaging the wOBAs projected by Marcels, CHONE and ZiPS. For fielding I will use the projections provided ...
NL West Outlook: 2nd Baseman
True Blue LA —
... I'll be ranking the teams based on their total projected 2009 WAR (wins above replacement) for each position. I'll be using the spreadsheet provided here by Beyond the Box Score. Marcels projections will be used to project playing time. If correct playing time is not being accounted for in the projections, I will adjust the plate appearances to equal projected playing time . I will calculate wOBA by averaging the wOBAs projected by Marcels, CHONE and ZiPS. For fielding I will use the projections provided ...
NL West Outlook: Third Basemen
True Blue LA —
... I'll be ranking the teams based on their total projected 2009 WAR (wins above replacement) for each position. I'll be using the spreadsheet provided here by Beyond the Box Score. Marcels projections will be used to project playing time. If correct playing time is not being accounted for in the projections, I will adjust the plate appearances to equal projected playing time . I will calculate wOBA by averaging the wOBAs projected by Marcels, CHONE and ZiPS. For fielding I will use the projections provided ...
NL West Outlook: Shortstops
True Blue LA —
... I'll be ranking the teams based on their total projected 2009 WAR (wins above replacement) for each position. I'll be using the spreadsheet provided here by Beyond the Box Score. Marcels projections will be used to project playing time. If correct playing time is not being accounted for in the projections, I will adjust the plate appearances to equal projected playing time . I will calculate wOBA by averaging the wOBAs projected by Marcels, CHONE and ZiPS. For fielding I will use the projections provided ...
NL West Outlook: Outfielders
True Blue LA —
... I'll be ranking the teams based on their total projected 2009 WAR (wins above replacement) for each position. I'll be using the spreadsheet provided here by Beyond the Box Score. Marcels projections will be used to project playing time. If correct playing time is not being accounted for in the projections, I will adjust the plate appearances to equal projected playing time . I will calculate wOBA by averaging the wOBAs projected by Marcels, CHONE and ZiPS. For fielding I will use the projections provided ...
NL West Outlook: Outfielders
True Blue LA —
... I'll be ranking the teams based on their total projected 2009 WAR (wins above replacement) for each position. I'll be using the spreadsheet provided here by Beyond the Box Score. Marcels projections will be used to project playing time. If correct playing time is not being accounted for in the projections, I will adjust the plate appearances to equal projected playing time . I will calculate wOBA by averaging the wOBAs projected by Marcels, CHONE and ZiPS. For fielding I will use the projections provided ...
