1901 Player Re-Draft Thread

[rmadachik]

Charlie Krause has been sent to the Inmates.

Richmond selects - John Butler
Cleveland Via trade with Detroit selects - Ben Harrison
Asylum selects - Pete Loos
And Jamestown selects with the final pick in the draft . . . . . . . John McPherson


Here is the updated league file and team rosters. any aadjustmants that you want considered for defensive positioning need to be presented by tomorrow along with supporting data.

[scubadan]

Looking at the auto draft picks made by the computer, I'd like to extend C Joe Wall's contract to 2 years.

[Sockeye]

Rich,

My last pick should be the catcher/rightfielder Farmer Steelman. You mistakenly listed it as the pitcher Farmer "Burns"
Please correct that error.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...teelfa01.shtml

Thanks

[buppers]

Seattle's 30th pick belongs to Assylum

2 S's in Asylum? Again? Are you kidding me ??? What you got against me Mark? Misspell Luzinski in the 80's and now disrespecting me back here in the 00's ??? After all those trades I made with you...

[Sockeye]

Now that the draft is complete and everyone knows who they have. Anyone in need of and serious about aquiring pitching for the coming season should come see me. Two aces (Len Swormstedt & Roscoe Miller) are both available for the right price.

[catcher24]

With the 355th overall pick the Anaheim Angels select...Farmer Steelman He gets a 1 years deal!

Interesting. Farmer Steelman is not in the DB that I got from Rich, nor is he on Rich's most recent list of FA, although he quite obviously did play in 1901. Too bad, because I'm certain someone would have taken a catcher with 106 PAs and a .350 OBP well ahead of just about everyone drafted in this and the preceding round. Don't know how you uncovered this guy Garry, but nice work.

[catcher24]

Rich,

My last pick should be the catcher/rightfielder Farmer Steelman. You mistakenly listed it as the pitcher Farmer "Burns"
Please correct that error.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...teelfa01.shtml

Thanks

As mentioned in my previous post, that player is not listed in the database. Whoever put it together originally must have missed him. I think Rich will have to create him and then draft him onto your roster.

[jaybird_1981]

As mentioned in my previous post, that player is not listed in the database. Whoever put it together originally must have missed him. I think Rich will have to create him and then draft him onto your roster.

Yeah I had him scouted but didn't draft him because he wasn't in the DB.

[Sockeye]

Interesting. Farmer Steelman is not in the DB that I got from Rich, nor is he on Rich's most recent list of FA, although he quite obviously did play in 1901. Too bad, because I'm certain someone would have taken a catcher with 106 PAs and a .350 OBP well ahead of just about everyone drafted in this and the preceding round. Don't know how you uncovered this guy Garry, but nice work.

Thanks Lew. I used baseball-reference as my soul source for scouting. I never rely on the list of players provided as it's possible a player could be missed. Instead I make my own list. I don't own the DMB game so I wasn't aware that he wasn't DB. Anyone who had him scouted but noticed he wasn't in the DB should have pointed it out and selected him. Obviously any player who played in 1901 should be available to be drafted. I'm sure Rich can easily create him. We are solid on PA's at catcher this season but can really use his 106 PA's in RF. A position where we only had 359 PA's available to us prior to selecting Steelman.

[rmadachik]

I created steelman and replaced burns with him on your roster. Steelman was pretty solid behind the plate - gunning down over half of the attempted base stealers he faced. He is set up as an average range right fielder with a below average error rating - AV 85

[catcher24]

I created steelman and replaced burns with him on your roster. Steelman was pretty solid behind the plate - gunning down over half of the attempted base stealers he faced. He is set up as an average range right fielder with a below average error rating - AV 85

Rich, I went in and got his fielding stats and put them into the formula I used to rate the 1902 and 1904 players. He would (using that formula) be a pr/0. His range factor per game was only 1, while the league average was 2.03, thus he falls well below the poor line. He committed no errors in the OF, hence a zero error rating. You can use these, or go with what you have.

[rmadachik]

thanks lew ... i will use your ratings .... what did you have him at catcher?

[Wade8813]

Rich, I went in and got his fielding stats and put them into the formula I used to rate the 1902 and 1904 players. He would (using that formula) be a pr/0. His range factor per game was only 1, while the league average was 2.03, thus he falls well below the poor line. He committed no errors in the OF, hence a zero error rating. You can use these, or go with what you have.

I wonder if the game's programming means that someone with a zero rating is incapable of making an error, and that giving him a 1 might be a little more accurate - that it's really unlikely (but possible) that he'd make an error.

I don't really care; just idle speculation on my part.

[catcher24]

I wonder if the game's programming means that someone with a zero rating is incapable of making an error, and that giving him a 1 might be a little more accurate - that it's really unlikely (but possible) that he'd make an error.

I don't really care; just idle speculation on my part.

I believe (although I am not positive) that even with a zero error rating, there is still the possibility of player making an error.

[catcher24]

thanks lew ... i will use your ratings .... what did you have him at catcher?

Catcher: Av/29 Passed Ball Rating = 0 Throwing Arm = Excellent (Actually one of the best arms of any catcher this season)

Sorry. Should have included that before. Just didn't think to because mention was made of using him in the OF.

[Wade8813]

Could you explain the Passed Ball rating to me? All of the numbers seem significantly lower than the errors ratios, so I assume it's a different scale.

[catcher24]

The numbers will be much lower than the fielder error ratings. Passed ball rating estimates the number of passed balls allowed per 1000 batter caught, whereas the error rating is a factor of how much above or below the league average errors per 100 games played a fielder commits.

I used the Diamond Mind formula. I used Diamond Mind's base formula, then created an Excel formula that had a variable for the number of games caught. I then estimated 36 batters caught for each game caught. This is the explanation of the passed ball rating, along with DM base formula, from the DM help file.

Passed ball rating
This number indicates how many times a catcher will allow a passed ball in 1,000 plate appearances with runners on base. The formula is similar to that for wild pitch ratings for pitchers:

rating = (passed balls * 1000) / (batters caught * .43)

Official statistics don't include batters caught, so you'll need to estimate it. For example, if a team's pitchers faced 6300 batters and this catcher was behind the plate 72% of time, he caught about 6300 * .72 = 4536 batters.

The .43 factor indicates that about 43% of all plate appearances occur with runners on base. This number rises and falls with the level of offense in the league.