SubscribeSome of the most common stat requests I get for the Price Guide involve categories that aren’t typically included in projections — quality starts, holds, and errors.
Although I can’t do anything to update the projections, I wondered if adding something would be better than nothing. For those of you who are interested in these categories: Would it be helpful to include 2008 stats for these categories that aren’t projected?
How about a multi-year average? Maybe weighted 3-2-1 Marcel style?
Also: Courtesy of Dan Szymborski of Baseball Think Factory, ZiPS projections are now available in the Price Guide. Wow, look at Ryan Braun!
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I’ll take the under on all 5 of Braun’s ZiPS projections.
random comment:
Does the Price Guide factor in the low number of innings a reliever uses when valuing era and whip? When I put in Zero saves for Saito and Putz, I still get $10 in value for each of them. Sure, I can see the value of a middle reliever who is good, but $10 seems excessive.
Be sure to be careful with ZiPS values if you’ve got anything but the shallowest of leagues. He doesn’t try to project playing time so you get some very odd projections for folks in the $1-$10 range.
Adding holds to the 2008 stats would be nice enough for me.
Thanks much for adding ZiPS – probably my favorite of the projection systems. Last year I tried to do a manual valuation via excel with ZiPS projections – huge, huge pain.