Comments on: The Good and The Bad of ’09: Baltimore http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/the-good-and-the-bad-of-09-baltimore-2/ Daily fantasy baseball analysis and strategy Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:15:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eddie http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/the-good-and-the-bad-of-09-baltimore-2/#comment-8108 Eddie Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:27:11 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=5062#comment-8108 Adam Jones is losing his range? Right after this was published, he goes and wins a Gold Glove. I don't know about you, but he plays a shallow CF and is still able to go back on balls and steal HRs over the wall in deep CF. He might be one of the best leaping CFs in a while, a la Michael Jordan out there. Adam Jones is losing his range? Right after this was published, he goes and wins a Gold Glove. I don’t know about you, but he plays a shallow CF and is still able to go back on balls and steal HRs over the wall in deep CF. He might be one of the best leaping CFs in a while, a la Michael Jordan out there.

]]> By: Toffer Peak http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/the-good-and-the-bad-of-09-baltimore-2/#comment-6239 Toffer Peak Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:42:56 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/?p=5062#comment-6239 I'm curious about the team WPA. Shouldn't a team with 64 wins by definition have -17 WPAs? If all teams start with 81 wins and then lose or gain them through WPA I would have thought the math would have worked out such that team WPA=wins above or below 81 wins. Looking at the scoreboard result from the last few games seems to confirm this since the losing team's total is always -.5 WPA and the winning team's is thus +.5 WPA. What am I missing? OK, got it just before I was about to submit. It appears that you only looked at the Orioles' offense. Since their pitching had -6.83 WPA it makes sense. That plus -10.17 results in the requisite 17 losses. I’m curious about the team WPA. Shouldn’t a team with 64 wins by definition have -17 WPAs? If all teams start with 81 wins and then lose or gain them through WPA I would have thought the math would have worked out such that team WPA=wins above or below 81 wins.

Looking at the scoreboard result from the last few games seems to confirm this since the losing team’s total is always -.5 WPA and the winning team’s is thus +.5 WPA.

What am I missing?

OK, got it just before I was about to submit. It appears that you only looked at the Orioles’ offense. Since their pitching had -6.83 WPA it makes sense. That plus -10.17 results in the requisite 17 losses.

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