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Baseball on a Budget -- Final Results for the Pat Burrell League

Good job Victor06, your the man.

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Good job Victor06, your the man.

Back in February, our previous leader Sky got the ball rolling a project to see if people could put together a competitive baseball team on a limited budget.  It was based off a draft that ESPN ran.  Two league were created, teams were drafted and then the wait began.  There was no trading throughout the season, so the team you draft you were stuck with.  

I sponsored the Pat Burrell league.  I kept a spreadsheet for the participants to enter their team totals, but each team was to keep track of their own player's total.  I have sent out quite a few reminders, as I am sure the league can testify to, so everyone has had a chance to update their numbers by now.  As of right today, I have the WAR totals for each team, but not the PA (limit 6500) and IP (1500) for 5 teams.  With that being said, the winner of the Pat Burrell league is:

viktor06

Here are the final results:

Name Total WAR Total WAR plus Replacement Wins (48.6)
viktor06 64.7 113.3
oldjacket 57.4 106.0
NYRoyal 52.0 100.6
TucsonRoyal 50.0 98.6
Jason Collette 47.0 95.6
Daniel Berlyn 43.4 92.0
acblue 29.5 78.1



vivaelpujols 67.3 115.9
Markakis and Wieters 4 Life 48.6 97.2
philkid3 43.4 92.0
Marc Normandin 42.2 90.8
MatthewA 35.6 84.2

Star-divide

As a whole I am amazed at the amount of WAR only 12 teams were able to accumulate.  As a league, we totaled up for 581 WAR, while spending 720 million, or 1.24 million per WAR.  I thought I was doing pretty good by getting 50 WAR, but viktor06 and viva crushed me.  Well congrats again to viktor06.

How did my strategy play out:

I aimed to get the max PA with good players and no PA for the rest of my players.  I figured 10 players with 650 PA would put me at the PA limit.  So for each picked, I reference Ron Shandler's fantasy guide that rates the player's health and tried to take only players with an A rating.  I decided to then only aim for 12 full time position players (some players would still get hurt) and the rest of the players should see no playing time.  That stategy played out great as I ended up with 6480 AB.

With pitchers I wanted to also go for a few healthy studs.  We were limited to 1000 starting innings, so I aimed for 6 starters to go 200 innings, account for 1 starter going down.  The rest of the pitchers I went with the best available pen guys.  All went pretty decent here except, by the time in the draft I got around to getting a pen, most decent players were taken.

Possible changes for next year.

$50 million dollar limit - The win total were extremely high and taking away $120 million should remove 100 WAR from the draft.  Maybe even take it down to $45 million.

Total IP to 1500 - There was no good way to keep track of the WAR between the two, so just have a total for IP

Thanks again to all the participate and can't wait to do it again.

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How the hell did I win?

I drafted Connor Jackson AND Chris Davis.

by vivaelpujols on Nov 5, 2009 4:00 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Viva --- did you not get the 18 emails I sent out over the last few days.

I need to see if PA or Innings are too high. Actually viktor was the only one to go over. I was in innings by 14, so not enough to change his overall value.

Jeff Zimmerman - Protecting the world from RBI's and Wins from my mom's guest house.

by Jeff Zimmerman (TucsonRoyal) on Nov 5, 2009 4:14 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

How didn’t I win, with Joe Mauer and Ben Zobrist

Please hit better, Randy Winn.

by oldjacket on Nov 6, 2009 12:39 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I got screwed on a lot of injuries

I think my first two picks had like >1 WAR combined

I had to take a lot of risks on young players due to my draft position. Being last to pick, I’m satisfied.

Next year, I suggest each “team” get a small handicap for every draft pick away from #1 they get.

by Daniel Berlyn on Nov 5, 2009 6:04 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

So what did I learn from this exercise?

That I apparently have a lot to learn for the next time. Sheesh.

by MatthewA on Nov 5, 2009 7:25 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I claim victory from the Ellis league.

"Of course Kolby Rasmus was going deep! That’s what Kolby Rasmus does! You don’t give Kolby Rasmus second chances!" -Kolby Rasmus

by hazel on Nov 5, 2009 10:32 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I wanted to say I'm REALLY sorry I didn't have a chance to update myself for a while.

Or at the end of the season (though, TBH, I have had a chance for a final update and kept forgetting).

I really liked this and if I have time would like to do it again.

by philkid3 on Nov 5, 2009 11:25 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I tried to stay with young guys with upside, both for health and price reasons. It worked reasonably well, only Cha Sung Baek, Mauer and Berkman lost significant time on my team. I figured that pitchers would be undervalued due to volatility. I got good pitching for cheap, but also got some volatility out of Billingsley and Baker.

I had two of the top 5 player WARs, and before Billingsley fell apart, that was true of pitchers as well. But my outfield was kind of a disaster outside of Justin Upton.

I don’t know why I drafted Aubrey Huff. Nor why the teams actually paying his salary kept playing him.

Please hit better, Randy Winn.

by oldjacket on Nov 6, 2009 1:30 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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