SubscribeA couple of quick updates regarding the Price Guide:
- Errors, holds, and quality starts are now all available for 2009 stats.
- You now have the ability to force a custom hitter/pitcher split instead of using what the Price Guide determines as optimal. If you know that owners in your league will only spend 30% of their budgets on pitching, you can force a 70/30 split to mimic your league’s behavior, even if the Price Guide is recommending a 64/36 split.
As you may have noticed with the posts trailing off as the season started this year, this blog will primarily be a seasonal feature. I’m hoping to focus on content and Price Guide updates from January through March, and then slow down as the draft season finishes up.
I appreciate all of the comments that everyone posted this season, and I’m looking forward to continuing that discussion next spring.
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Thanks for all the hard work. Do you think you could post your best guess as to when the various updated data sources will be appearing in the price guide? Thanks!
(To be clear – DO you think you can post your best guess as to which months might contain which updates? I know a lot of it is out of your hands, but I think you may have the best position to make a guess as to when it will be available…)
A feature request for next season’s greasemonkey — a way to just use last 15/30 days of stats instead of the entire season — to find the guys who are playing well lately.
@John: In the past, the projections have become available in roughly this order:
Marcel – Oct?
CAIRO – Oct?
CHONE – Dec?
ZiPS – Feb?
I should get those up as soon as each creator gives permission to do so.
@Miles: I think that’s a great idea.
Thanks Mays. My league is going to use your composite data source this year to set some keeper values. We’re looking forward to seeing them in ~February.
Mays,
When I run the Price Guide for my end-of-season dollar values, it projects 670 IP under League Info. We actually had around 1200 IP per team. Is there a way to have this reflected? This league has 10 hitters and 8 pitchers (6 starters, 2 relievers).
@Bobby: Sorry for the slow response. :-)
Assuming you have more than 6 teams in your league, I’m guessing that you have extra ratio pitching categories, which tend to slant things in favor of relievers.
If your league allows daily transactions so that teams tend to rotate in a couple extra starters off their bench, you might get better results using something like 10 SP and 2 RP.
Otherwise, I don’t know of a good way to adjust things.