Re: Re: Gauging WAR vs. Rnk in the new
My feeling about multiple pitchers being on FIRE was that, in those admittedly rare times when every pitcher on a team wound up juiced, it meant that every single at-bat was slanted in their favor wheras a juiced batter has only 4-5 times at the plate per game with a built-in edge. It just seemed to me that batters were being disproportionately disadvantaged. But, yeah, maybe allowing multiple batters to be in the zone would take us back to those days when baseball scores were too much like football scores.
I started this thread with the misconception that the new WAR stat was possibly something more impactful than just dialing down the frequency and potency of Fire. It seems now that it's really just a small adjustment that will skew things more towards a sense of balance and realism. I'm all for that and likewise all for being patient enough to see how it plays out. I think we all tend to resist change and overact when forced to make adjustments to what we're more comfortable and used to. Da human condition...
As for that sabremetric analysis of Oil Can Boyd: oy, my brain hurts trying to process all that. I think my new excuse when my teams are struggling will be, '"Must be the other team was dosing on sabremetrics...'
I started this thread with the misconception that the new WAR stat was possibly something more impactful than just dialing down the frequency and potency of Fire. It seems now that it's really just a small adjustment that will skew things more towards a sense of balance and realism. I'm all for that and likewise all for being patient enough to see how it plays out. I think we all tend to resist change and overact when forced to make adjustments to what we're more comfortable and used to. Da human condition...
As for that sabremetric analysis of Oil Can Boyd: oy, my brain hurts trying to process all that. I think my new excuse when my teams are struggling will be, '"Must be the other team was dosing on sabremetrics...'
