Posted by jpccr on 4/13/2012 2:43:00 PM (view original):
Posted by dmurphy104 on 4/13/2012 1:24:00 PM (view original):
Posted by jpccr on 4/13/2012 12:39:00 PM (view original):
I was an owner in Hamilton (30) and The Sandlot (138), and it's hard to imagine such a vast gap between the two. In fact, the Sandlot out performed Hamilton in terms of 100w/100l teams 7 to 9. Hamilton also featured a team with 112 wins. The Sandlot had 0 teams with 110 wins or losses. Why such a gap?
The Sandlot was near the bottom on my fielding calculation. And Hamilton was near the top on both fielding and pitching scores. Their parity scores were fairly close.
Hamilton teams averaged 47+ and 48- plays. That is very bad as an average. (9th worst in all of HBD)
you meant Sandlot there, of course. I guess I'll have to disagree with your formula if +/- is going to topple over the parity advantage that greatly (over 100 slots difference). It's a pretty arbitrary evaluator of an owner's abilities. Sandlot had a team in Season 20 that won 103 games with a +/- split of 35/69, for instance. It's not unusual to see a team lead the world in plus plays and have a losing record.
As for the "****** up feel" comment, you could measure that somewhat by accounting for owner turnover.
For an individual owner, Id agree that it isnt the be all/end all. As a league average, I feel that its a pretty good indicator.
You kind of made my point in that a team in Sandlot was able to win 103 games with such crappy fielding.
They were very similar on parity. Both pitching and fielding drove the gap. I also did catch an input error where I missed one of Hamiltons 100 win/loss seasons. That would push them to 43. I am slowly going back through for my revised calculation on parity and checking the other #s as well for all worlds.