Craig Biggio was pretty good, wasn't he?

russel martin early in his career?

Not in HBD but Jason Kendall ran pretty well until the incident at first base.

Biggio wasn't a catcher very long.

Martin was similar to Kendall but he stopped running earlier(and without catastrophic injury to help him stop running). 

Why is this guy so successful?

http://www.whatifsports.com/HBD/Pages/Popups/PlayerProfile.aspx?pid=3958201

His splits are okay, his first pitch is weak. The only truly remarkable ratings are his 4th pitch and durability. But I just took over his team, and I see he has won 4 CY Young awards.

What am I missing that makes him so good?

It's the pitches and control.   Using my formulas, he falls between 1-2 on my staffs.   However, the formula doesn't do a great job with the "oddball" guy with a P4 in the 90s. 

I don't supposed you'd send me your formula?

Will/have you explained your PPS?

I will tell pretty much anyone anything I know about HBD but I've only given up one formula(please see next question).

I have.   Basically, I wanted a way to compare my 80/86/87/90 guy to my 90/81/85/86 guy.   Both are lacking in one category in my wanted 85 across the board for SS(it can apply to any position).     So I felt the best way was to examine results.   OF are PO+assist+positive plays-errors-negative plays.   I remove PO for IF because, a lot of the time, that's just catching a ball someone threw to you.  No skill in that.   I divide that total by innings played.   I then multipy that number by 1458 because that's 162x9(the possible number of 9 inning games in a 162 game sched).   So I can say "If that dude played every inning, he'd make plays x-amount of times."    Then I compare it to the other guy that I've split time with him there.

Do you think Hockey was looking for a guy like this guy?

http://www.whatifsports.com/HBD/Pages/Popups/PlayerProfile.aspx?pid=4590452

Is Jameis Winston the next JaMarcus Russell? Does he like Purple Drank like Russell? Who are the Raiders taking with the #4 overall pick?

I've noticed that some people sign star players to long term contracts before their third arbitration year. One example I just noticed in one of my leagues:

http://www.whatifsports.com/HBD/Pages/Popups/PlayerProfile.aspx?pid=5352102

This guy appears to have been signed in his first arb year, and as a result, he'll be a free agent next year.

Is there any point to doing this? It seems to me it just wastes two years of team control. But since I've seen it happen a number of times, I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

Posted by topoftheworl on 4/24/2015 10:11:00 PM (view original):
Do you think Hockey was looking for a guy like this guy?

http://www.whatifsports.com/HBD/Pages/Popups/PlayerProfile.aspx?pid=4590452

I know this is going to get redlined but yeah. I've never seen that before. That is also a hell of a ball player.

Evidently.

No, I think he's just an immature idiot.  Russell didn't like football, IMO.   They're taking a WR.   I hope it's Cooper.

No real point but I've done it.  We know the regression pattern of players.    So, if there's a 27 y/o asking for 5m in arb or 5.3m long term, it may be beneficial, to your future salary cap, to give him a LT with a bonus.

Yeah, not a question.

Is there a way I can see the number of pitches thrown for each individual at bat?

I want to figure out why my guy with TPC 20 MPC 30 threw 34 pitches and burned out his arm.