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Posted by keithjs on 8/6/2010 11:25:00 AM (view original):
I'm new to Hardball Dynasty and would love to hear about how HBD veterans evaluate hitting talent.
Right now, I am looking at Contact, Power, Vs.L, Vs.R, Batting eye, etc., but I would like to come up with a formula that gives more weighting for the most important categories. I threw a workable formula together for pitchers based on a previous forum thread but hitters has been a bit more challenging.
Thanks for the help guys...I am really enjoying the game so far!
BTW, what was your formula for evaluating pitchers?
Here's what I am using for pitchers: (CON*6 + vR*5 + P1*4 + vL*3 + STA*2 + VEL*2 + GB*1) / 23. Thanks for all of your help guys.
Not sure I would want to include STA as part of a formula such as this because STA really has less to do with performance as it is more about availability. You've got a formula with six apples and one orange.
Plus you're giving P1 a weight of 4 while completely disregarding P2-P5. I'd want to at least include P2 in the formula since all pitchers have at least a P1 and a P2.
Plus sometimes P2 is their better pitch.
I think it would be better to break it down into a starter/reliever formula. A reliever is fine w/ 2 great pitchers, many starters have 3. A starter only has to be available every 5th day, a Reliever you want as many innings as possible. Seems like this leads to two seperate rankings systems.