League Settings - Category Weight How to best use this advanced option

#6959  7/12/2014 5:21 PM

BM team,

Any ideas or suggestions for how to best use this feature.

For instance if my pitching categories are IP, K, WHIP, ERA, Shutout, CG, Saves, Holds, W, L I really only value the K ERA WHIP stats heavily.  I care about W, L, CG, Shutout but they are less predictable but am unsure how to kind of account for this.  Saves/Holds are both important when evaluating RPs but not SP's.

IP I just punt now as it has no bearing in my choice to roster someone.

I think by default if you leave them blank they are set to 1.  So hopefully if my approach is right if I put 1.5 I'm valuing that categories value by 150%?

Any ideas how you all currently use that feature or how you might approach my scenario above?

mbuser   7/12/2014 5:42 PM

I would also punt CG and SHO simply on the basis of how infrequently they occur - to this point of the season, there have been a total of 65 CG and 37 SHO, so I would advise against allowing them to influence your decisions. As for the methodology, you are correct that assigning a 1.5 weight means the category is valued at 150%, versus 100% for others. In your scenario, I might also care a bit less about W and L because they aren't completely influenced by the pitcher in question. (And you'll find that SP dominate the positive W values and RP dominate the positive L values.) What about the following setup:

punt: CG, SHO
0.5 weight: IP, W, L
1 weight: K, WHIP, ERA, SV, HLD

I added IP at a half-weight because having both SV and HLD at full could skew relievers to the higher side of things. Perhaps start with IP also as a punt, see what the ranks/projections look like, then adjust IP a bit if you see an adjustment needs to be made.

#6959  7/12/2014 8:46 PM

Thanks will try that and see if it helps get rid of some of the odd rankings I see - -  would you do anything unique for hitting?  avg k 1b 2b 3b hr rbi bb sb r

In general in this league it's better to have high avg lead off hitters that are high OBP and low K's but I think I tend to fall short in the traditional Power stats like 2B/HR/RBI.

Anything you would suggest to help even that up or do you recommend a even weight for this particular setup?

mbuser   7/13/2014 2:27 PM

Of all those cats you mention, 3B certainly happens on a much less frequent scale than anything else and has a bit less predictability. You could punt 3B and concentrate elsewhere.