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Post by #CheapPitchers on Jan 12, 2009 21:56:41 GMT -5
(Copied from my post in the Proposing a new rule thread)... I love the 7x7 format, but there's one category that we don't currently have that I believe is one of the best to track. Any chance the league would consider changing the stat OBP (On Base Percentage) to OPS (On Base % + Slugging %)? I know a lot of the baseball world is looking at OPS now as a stat that really shows how much a player contributes to the runs his team scores, since it combines OBP and Slugging. It's also a bit more multi-dimensional than OBP, as it's not just for those guys who get on base a lot. It's those guys that get on base a lot AND drive in runs to help their teams win. In the end I think it will add to the level of strategy we need to bring to our auction and to follow season in and season out. Thanks for considering.
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Post by #CheapPitchers on Jan 13, 2009 23:35:22 GMT -5
Thanks to the 8 teams who have voted on this proposal. There are 8 other teams out there who still need to. Please do so when you get a minute to think it over.
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Post by jackbauer on Jan 16, 2009 6:49:41 GMT -5
I would favor eliminating Strikeouts and replacing it with Total Bases, while keeping OBP. TB would factor in the things that Slugging Percentage does, and create separate categories for on base guys and sluggers to shift the balance away from power hitters who would dominate the OPS category.
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Post by thebreeze on Jan 16, 2009 12:38:09 GMT -5
I think keeping Strikeouts as a cat. would do that very same thing, diminish some of the power of the sluggers (i.e. Howard, Braun, Dunn etc..) And I'm not sure how TB would do that.
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Post by jtbaty on Jan 16, 2009 13:35:19 GMT -5
I'm with "thebreeze" on this one. I think we should keep K's as a category. By taking away K's and adding TB's I think it just adds more value to the power guys. Keeping K's means you will need a nice little mix between power and speed.
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Post by jackbauer on Jan 16, 2009 15:49:17 GMT -5
Unfortunately "Chicks dig the long ball" and baseball favors the power hitter over the table setter. Power hitters get the big bucks in the real world, so why wouldn't they in fantasy salaries.
While HRs and RBIs favor the power hitter and SBs favor speed guys, the Avg., Runs, and OBP provide a nice balance of power hitters and non-power hitters, so I don't see the need to "balance" the power hitter with strikeouts. Big Strikeout guys kill you in the Batting Avg. category, which creates a balance and devalues a Howard or Dunn (who seem to be the designated whipping boys). Carrying a Howard or Dunn makes it difficult to do well in Avg.
Total Bases, while it favors power hitters, is not a "pure power hitter" category, with Reyes and Pedroia finishing in the Top 10 of that category for 2008 since those Doubles and Triples do add up.
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Post by thebreeze on Jan 16, 2009 16:29:05 GMT -5
compelling argument... not sure what you are trying to get at, though. Devalue power hitters? Increase value of pure hitters/speed guys?
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Post by jtbaty on Jan 16, 2009 17:47:50 GMT -5
Ok, well here is my new argument then. As I prepare for the draft, I am already unable to prepare for all 7 hitting categories as efficiently as I would like to since we are still not 100% sure on OPS or OBS.
As I compute all my other statistics, I would hate to have to take all the K stats out and replace with a whole new category of TB's. It's just more work that I don't really want to do. The draft is in a couple weeks so I say lets just let it be how it is.
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