Posted by MikeT23 on 4/19/2017 2:04:00 PM (view original):
Posted by pjfoster13 on 4/19/2017 1:16:00 PM (view original):
As stated 5 different ways, it doesn't matter in any way whatsoever whether a guy is high or low, dummy.
Was it one of those long-winded posts I don't read? Fair enough.
But do you think low is better than high? Maths is hard but not that hard.
"it doesn't matter in any way whatsoever whether a guy is high or low, dummy."
Saying that neither thing matters is not the same as saying that one is better than the other in either direction. I am not saying that, you are saying that I'm saying that. Your statement is a non sequitur, it's bad logic. You're either a profoundly stupid individual, or you're just trolling, or you're both.
Does it matter that
George Wright has a 1.84 range factor in CF, compared to the league leader at 2.66 and the 25th place guy at 2.14? No. What matters is career .992 (1 error) and 2 plus plays in 625 innings (70ish games), and those things are determined by range, glove, arm. 92-83-88-90. Does his best with the opportunities he is given. Again, we base that on the given premise that
NO TWO TEAMS HAVE IDENTICAL SAMPLES, and we know that is automatically, fundamentally true because every team has different pitchers and every team faces different hitters. It's not something that needs to be debated or proven or derived, it's plainly obvious. It's a law of the baseball universe, it is 100% true 100% of the time.
In George Wright's league, his pitchers are 5th in the ML in K/9 at 7.00, last place is 5.45. Therefore, only 20 remaining outs of volume get distributed between the other 8 positions, as opposed to 21.5 outs being distributed amongst fielders for the worst team in that category.
Take a second and wrap your head around that concept. In addition, my team is first in GB/FB at 1.49 (league average 1.19), so those remaining 20 outs are skewing heavily to my infield and heavily away from my outfield, thus according to you and tec I have bad outfielders because "higher is better", when in reality my outfield is incredibly efficient
More outs
=/= better fielder. For all the good that Bill James has done for sabermetrics, range factor is NOT one of those things. Completely meaningless. Convincing yourself I'm somehow an idiot doesn't make you objectively right. There's reasons why I'm a top 10 player on this site and every single one of my teams is .625+% and in first place, leading the league in pitching and fielding every single season. Those reasons are the same ones why you are not good at this despite being here for 10 years longer. Not rocket science. Basic concepts.