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Keeper Analysis #12 – This Guy’s Team

October 7th, 2008

See all the other analysis here and the grid alignment here.

For the final team’s analysis, I need to preface it with the fact that this team is the league’s whipping boy. He tends to say and do stupid things but he firmly believes that whatever he does will make his team better. So without further ado, what follows will be an interesting case.

Rule #1: Never keep a first rounder. This eliminates Russ Martin (1) and Dan Haren (1). This does not eliminate Alex Rodriguez (1).

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Buy Low/ Sell High Summary

October 2nd, 2008

Well here it is finally playoff time and I wanted to look at how I did at the end of the year. I created a spreadsheet here for everyone to see and compare different scenarios.

Looking at everything, I did win basically every category that the player can control. FIP – ERA for pitchers have a swing of close to 4 tenths of a point in ERA. The WHIP is better by close to .06 and more than 1K/9 better in the buy group. My pitchers also gave up less HR and had a higher average gamescore.

The hitters have a slightly worse HR/AB but everything else is better even nominally so.

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Keeper Analysis #11 – The Great Giambino Mustache Ride

October 1st, 2008

See all of the previous analysis here and the grid here. This one will be somewhat special as it is the guy who just won the league (Troy).

Rule #1 : Never keep a first rounder. This eliminates Howard (1), Dunn (1), and Beltran (1).

Rule #2: Never keep a catcher. This eliminates McCann (4) and Iannetta (16).

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