Derwood

I love the Lottery conspiracy. it's not that off the wall. The lottery was REALLY easy to fix, he desperately wanted Ewing in NY, etc.

on the one hand, it's much harder for Stern to fix the lottery since the odds are so bad. on the other, no one sees the drawing, so he can say whatever he wants. don't tell me Price Waterhouse Cooper or whomever isn't above taking a little payola to turn their head during the "audit" of the drawing. the video of the 1985 lottery is so obviously fixed.

if Bonds 73 HR season was on a team that went 40-122, would he still be the MVP?

What time is the lottery taking place? IBL? I think at halftime of tonight's game. 8:30 EDT, before the Jazz/Spurs game

i love how you grossly mischaracterize my stance. really adds to the integrity of your argument. and if you want an actual definition of MVP, it's probably something like "the guy who the media gives the most votes to"

so, can we expect a statue of a certain player whom Ernie is #2 behind in several key statistics?

how many homeruns and at bats does each player have? Player A had 643 AB's and Player B 509 There was a HR differential less than 5 Unless I'm reading baseball reference wrong, isn't B's OPS+ 217, not 182? yes, thanks. I looked on the wrong line So can you tell me what it was that A did that was more valuable? besides be the key offensive component to a wildcard team? See, I (unlike many) think the MVP is a contextual award. It's not "player of the year". It's "who was the most valuable," which I define as "whose contributions spelled the difference between his team being a success or a failure". By that measure, Player A's offensive contributions played a large part in his team making the playoffs while Player B's, while greater on an individual level, were gained on a, what, 4th place team?

how many homeruns and at bats does each player have? Player A had 643 AB's and Player B 509 There was a HR differential less than 5 Unless I'm reading baseball reference wrong, isn't B's OPS+ 217, not 182? yes, thanks. I looked on the wrong line

how many homeruns and at bats does each player have? Player A had 643 AB's and Player B 509 There was a HR differential less than 5 I just found them. How dare you make me support a Cardinal! I stand by my choice. Would you have picked Player A? In terms of "value" to his team, yes.

how many homeruns and at bats does each player have? Player A had 643 AB's and Player B 509 There was a HR differential less than 5

I love these exercises. I have no idea who these guys are, but I'm sure A is like Neifi and B is Manny or something and I'll say A and then I'm supposed to feel like an idiot b/c I said Neifi was a better player than Manny (of course, I won't feel like an idiot, but whatever). I'll play along. Given the stats you've put up there, I give the nod to Player B, by a pretty good margin. The 100 point difference in each of OBP and SLG, not to mention 22 points of OPS+, makes it an easy choice for me. Now you're going to tell me that Player B is Jason Marquis and I'm an idiot, right? no this is not an exercise to make you look dumb. These two players were #1 and #2 in MVP voting one year in some order. I just wanted to see if people would pick the MVP or not, and why

Ooh, a 'back injury' would be awfully convenient right about now. The player would have to agree to somethign like that no? not if they hire someone to hit him in the back with a steel chair

did the words "big announcement" ever come out of Lou's mouth?

I don't think it's good practice to completely use/ignore sabermetrics. Hitting doesn't happen in a vacuum. Though the game is primarily a one on one matchup between a hitter and a pitcher, the complexion of each at-bat is changed by what other people on the team have done/will do in a game. To completely toss runs and RBI out of the equation because they are "team dependent" stats would be equivalent to saying you can't evaluate whether or not Peyton Manning is the NFL MVP by using yards, completion %, touchdowns or interceptions

without looking up who is who, pick your MVP: Player A: .308/.377/.647/1.024, 160 OPS+, .321 BaBIP, .315 RISP Player B: .299/.470/.752/1.222, 182 OPS+, .285 BaBIP, .278 RISP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Draft_Lottery

All non-playoff teams have X amount of "balls" put in and they draw 3 balls. Those three teams are the top 3 picks After that, all remaining teams pick in reverse order of finish, starting with pick 4. The Bulls pick (from the Knicks) is 9th in a straight "reverse order". The Bulls could either move up to 1-3, or, if they don't, would pick 9, 10 or 11. Only way they pick 10 or 11 is if a team behind them in a "straight" order were to jump into the lottery when did that change? maybe when they moved from envelopes to ping pong balls?

All non-playoff teams have X amount of "balls" put in and they draw 3 balls. Those three teams are the top 3 picks After that, all remaining teams pick in reverse order of finish, starting with pick 4. The Bulls pick (from the Knicks) is 9th in a straight "reverse order". The Bulls could either move up to 1-3, or, if they don't, would pick 9, 10 or 11. Only way they pick 10 or 11 is if a team behind them in a "straight" order were to jump into the lottery

can you define IsoD please? I'm having no luck finding the definition online right now On-base - AVG which isolates, what, walks and HBP?

no we dont. That BS he pulled yesterday,with the wind blowing in, nonetheless, certainly is a cause for concern. yeah, how DARE he insert himself into a bases-loaded situation not of his own making!

can you define IsoD please? I'm having no luck finding the definition online right now

NO, FUKUDOME!

who knew Hendry would be the rational one?

yes, the padres will

That's only if you use the old school way of judging production, by R and RBI. R and RBI are team and teammate dependant. They don't show as much of what the player did than as much as what the team is doing. The only thing the player can control is his own production, which is measured much more effectively in AVG/OBP/SGL terms than in counting R and RBI. i guess my definition of "production" and yours are different. To me, it doesn't matter if you're OPS'ing 1.200 if you aren't generating runs (by either scoring them or knocking them in). As I said, the higher OPS player is more likely to create runs in the future, but that wasn't the question of the poll. With the question being "who was the MVP of the first quarter", who would you say was more valuable, a guy who has 40 runs, 50 RBI, and an OPS of .850, or a guy with 20 runs, 25 RBI and an OPS of 1.080 The guy with the 1.080 OPS. The guy with 40 runs and 50 RBI either played in a better lineup, hit in a better spot (say 3rd, rather than 6th), or was very lucky (high AVG with RISP or something). But the guy with the 1.000+ OPS played better that year, which I think is important when you're giving out an award for the guy that played the best. so you'd take an 1.080 OPS guy who isn't actually adding much to the runs on the board over an .800 one who is? This is asninine