I know so many of us use ERA+ at Baseball-Reference.com that any change to the site impacts ATB. Here's a blog post by Sean Forman as to the new way it's calculated.
Bottom line - order of rank stays the same, but those 200 ERA+s are now 150's.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5159
A centralized Diamond Mind Baseball league, using every full time player from 1871 'till today.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
"He was gone 4 days and we lost 4 ball games"
My all time favorite baseball book is "Glory of their Times: The Story Of The Early Days Of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It" by Lawrence Ritter. Compiled in the early to mid 1960s, Ritter resolved to save as much of the early 20th century baseball stories as possible, and to do so, tape-interviewed 20-odd ball players about their playing days. He edited their stories for certain, but left text basically intact giving readers the ability to truly relive the past alongside the player telling the story.
If you're not familiar with the text, "Glory of Their Times" isn't just one of my favorites, but is listed at or near the top of every "Greatest Baseball Books" list.
60 years after it's initial publication, the book was released on Audio. As great as that sounds, the truth is even better. It's not the text read by an actor, rather, the original recordings released in digital-audio format.
I took the liberty of sampling and splicing some of the best portions of each interview and will post them about once per week throughout the pre-season and hopefully most of regular season.
Stories range from the nostalgic (nothing like a good ol' Walter Johnson tale), hilarious (Victory Faust), to the crude (nobody did like Ty Cobb). We'll even get to hear about a pennant lost due to wives that couldn't get along.
First up is a story about Charlie Victor Faust told by Fred Snodgrass. Faust's career consisted of just 2 innings hurled in 1911, but "Victory" Faust was responsible for a trifecta of NY Giant Pennants from '11-'13.
The second and smaller sample is Sam Crawford on Walter Johnson's prowess - "he didn't need any curve!"
Snodgrass on Faust
Crawford on Johnson
If you're not familiar with the text, "Glory of Their Times" isn't just one of my favorites, but is listed at or near the top of every "Greatest Baseball Books" list.
60 years after it's initial publication, the book was released on Audio. As great as that sounds, the truth is even better. It's not the text read by an actor, rather, the original recordings released in digital-audio format.
I took the liberty of sampling and splicing some of the best portions of each interview and will post them about once per week throughout the pre-season and hopefully most of regular season.
Stories range from the nostalgic (nothing like a good ol' Walter Johnson tale), hilarious (Victory Faust), to the crude (nobody did like Ty Cobb). We'll even get to hear about a pennant lost due to wives that couldn't get along.
First up is a story about Charlie Victor Faust told by Fred Snodgrass. Faust's career consisted of just 2 innings hurled in 1911, but "Victory" Faust was responsible for a trifecta of NY Giant Pennants from '11-'13.
The second and smaller sample is Sam Crawford on Walter Johnson's prowess - "he didn't need any curve!"
Snodgrass on Faust
Crawford on Johnson
Monday, March 22, 2010
Draft Order Determined
With Mike Smitko bearing witness, the following draft order was determined by the Random Number generator in excel.
1) Justin Petronzi
2) Shotgun Spratling
3) Joe Terrry
4) Jason Bernardon
5) Mike Smitko
6) Jay Hatem
7) Brian Barnes
8) Ivar Anderson
9) Allen
10) Matt Brody
11) jeff Burns
12) Steve Chippendale
13) Kevin Crowley
14) Mike Thanasaides
15) Richard Madachik
16) Leanne Sarubbi
17) Johnny Kondovski
18) TJ Olszewski
19) Brad Peterson
20) Lou Poulas
1) Justin Petronzi
2) Shotgun Spratling
3) Joe Terrry
4) Jason Bernardon
5) Mike Smitko
6) Jay Hatem
7) Brian Barnes
8) Ivar Anderson
9) Allen
10) Matt Brody
11) jeff Burns
12) Steve Chippendale
13) Kevin Crowley
14) Mike Thanasaides
15) Richard Madachik
16) Leanne Sarubbi
17) Johnny Kondovski
18) TJ Olszewski
19) Brad Peterson
20) Lou Poulas
Final Owner List and Divisional Alignment
The ATB XII owner list is finalized, and our 12th season will see us with two divisions of 10 teams each. The top 4 teams in each division will make the playoffs, giving us the highest percentage of playoff bound teams in many a year.
As always, ATB is a friend of the Excel Random Number Generator formula, for which the following alignment has been finalized:
Interestingly enough, of the top 8 owners with the most wins in ATB history, 6 reside in the same division this year. This leaves Justin Petronzi alone atop Greenhorn division, with over 700 more wins more then Jeff Burns, who is second in the division at 300 all time. Justin shouldn't get to cocky though, division wide, the Greenhorn's have a better all time wining percentage then the Mossbacks.
Four owners with 800+ wins highlight the 'on paper' look of the Mossback Division. 204 win owner Jason Bernardon may be the team to beat however, he owns the highest all time winning percentage in ATB history.
As always, ATB is a friend of the Excel Random Number Generator formula, for which the following alignment has been finalized:
Interestingly enough, of the top 8 owners with the most wins in ATB history, 6 reside in the same division this year. This leaves Justin Petronzi alone atop Greenhorn division, with over 700 more wins more then Jeff Burns, who is second in the division at 300 all time. Justin shouldn't get to cocky though, division wide, the Greenhorn's have a better all time wining percentage then the Mossbacks.
Four owners with 800+ wins highlight the 'on paper' look of the Mossback Division. 204 win owner Jason Bernardon may be the team to beat however, he owns the highest all time winning percentage in ATB history.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Latest Owner List - 3/21
19 of us...
Allen
Brad Peterson
Brian Barnes
Ivar Anderson
Jason Bernardon
Jay Hatem
jeff Burns
Joe Terrry
Justin Petronzi
Kevin Crowley
Leanne Sarubbi
Lou Poulas
Matt Brody
Mike Smitko
Mike Thanasaides
Richard Madachik
Shotgun Spratling
Steve Chippendale
TJ Olszewski
Allen
Brad Peterson
Brian Barnes
Ivar Anderson
Jason Bernardon
Jay Hatem
jeff Burns
Joe Terrry
Justin Petronzi
Kevin Crowley
Leanne Sarubbi
Lou Poulas
Matt Brody
Mike Smitko
Mike Thanasaides
Richard Madachik
Shotgun Spratling
Steve Chippendale
TJ Olszewski
Friday, March 19, 2010
2009 Pitching Season Potential
The Best Pitching Seasons of 2009
SP - Chris Carpenter, 17-4, 2.22 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 38 BB, 144 K
SP - Zach Greinke, 16-8, 2.16 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 51 BB, 242 K
SP - Tin Lincecum, 15-7, 2.48 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 68 BB, 261 K
RP - Andrew Bailey, 6-3, 1.84 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 24 BB, 91 K
RP - Trevor Hoffman, 3-2, 1.83 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 14 BB, 48 K
RP - Mariano Rivera, 3-3, 1.76 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 12 BB, 72 K
SP - Chris Carpenter, 17-4, 2.22 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 38 BB, 144 K
SP - Zach Greinke, 16-8, 2.16 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 51 BB, 242 K
SP - Tin Lincecum, 15-7, 2.48 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 68 BB, 261 K
RP - Andrew Bailey, 6-3, 1.84 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 24 BB, 91 K
RP - Trevor Hoffman, 3-2, 1.83 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 14 BB, 48 K
RP - Mariano Rivera, 3-3, 1.76 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 12 BB, 72 K
2009 Batting Season Potential Part II
I made an erroneous post last night on the best 2009 batting lines. Here is the newest versions of the best players by position in 2009 - according to Poulas ATB math anyway.
- Joe Mauer, c - .365 / .445 / .587, 28 HR, 96 RBI
- Albert Pujols, 1b - .327 / .443 / .658, 47 HR, 135 RBI
- Ben Zobrist, 2b - .297 / .405 / .543, 27 HR, 91 RBI
- Hanley Ramirez, ss - .342 / .410 / .543, 24 HR, 106 RBI
- Pablo Sandoval, 3b - .330 / .387 / .556, 25 HR, 90 RBI
- Ryan Braun, LF - .320 / .386 / .551, 32 HR, 114 RBI
- Matt Kemp, CF - .297 / .352 / .490, 26 HR, 101 RBI
- Justin Upton, RF - .300 / .366 / .532, 26 HR, 86 RBI*
Thursday, March 18, 2010
ATB XII Draft Day Set
April 19th!
I will be updating the site in the next few weeks and will post all the pertinent information as it becomes available.
I will be updating the site in the next few weeks and will post all the pertinent information as it becomes available.
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