Comments on: What is the Price Guide?

By: J. Cross

J. Cross — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:07:39 +0000

Okay, I’ve got hitter and pitcher projections with csv files ready to go if anyone’s still drafting:

http://sites.google.com/site/steamerprojections/steamer-files?pli=1

(just download lppsteamerhitters2 and lppsteamerpitchers2010)

Mays, if you want to add them to the choices on the site that would be cool.

By: Mays

Mays — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:24:57 +0000

@Mark: I’ve got a few things to clean up on the “Export to CSV” feature, and what you mention also needs added to that list.

In the meantime, it’s pretty easy to get Excel to calculate the same inflation as what shows up on the webpage. If the Price Guide shows (for example) 21% inflation, you can use this formula in Excel:

=K2*1.21

You can drag that formula all the way down a column to apply it to every player.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:41:22 +0000

Hi. Your website is great – incredibly kind of you to provide all this great information. I went ahead and customized players by putting in the amount they are kept for in my league. As you suggest, this creates a “$(Inf)” column that shows truer prices for all players, which is great. But when I download to Excel, that column is not there (as far as I can tell). Any advice? Thanks.

By: Mays

Mays — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:37:50 +0000

@Brian: What shows up on the CSV is not BA, but actually “hits above average” — i.e. Pujols will have 31 more hits than the average player who gets the number of AB he gets.

If you want BA to show up in Excel, you have to add a column for it. Luckily, Excel can handle dividing H by AB so there’s not much work for you to do.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:50:26 +0000

Hey, great site. I exported the info to CSV and the batting average is all messed up. It shows fine on the display but then gets messed up when exported to excel. For example, it has Puljos average as 30.62. Is there any easy fix for this? Please let me know.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:37:42 +0000

May have already answered my own question: I submitted starting roster requirements, and notice there’s no option to list reserve spots. My spreadsheet gives 170 players at $1 or more, which accounts for 17 starters on 10 teams.

Is there a better way to account for bench spots than adding them to the individual positions? Would the value between the 10th and 11th first baseman be weighted appropriately (ignoring that the 11th ranked first basemen could likely be used at the UTIL spot)?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:22:43 +0000

Used this for a draft this past Saturday, worked great. Thanks!

Question for an auction next week: I’ve double checked my entries for the rosters, and for a 10-team league with 22-man rosters, I’m only getting positive dollar values for 182 players. Since a minimum bid of $1 is required, I have the minor problem of not having enough players valued above 1, but the major problem of believing that the players are incorrectly valued because of the shortage. Any advice on my fixing this other than tinkering with the number of players until I get 220 valued? Thanks.

By: J. Cross

J. Cross — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:18:35 +0000

Will do.

By: Mays

Mays — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:27:22 +0000

@J. Cross: If you get pitcher projections up by Opening Day, I’d love to include Steamer here with the rest.

By: J. Cross

J. Cross — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:21:38 +0000

Mays,

This is very cool. I made a Last Player Picked csv file of the 2010 Steamer Hitter Projections if anyone wants to use it:

http://sites.google.com/site/steamerprojections/2010-projections

They’ll need pitcher projections from another site for now. We’ll have pitcher projections in the next couple of weeks (perhaps too late for most, I know).