2 questions - mid season projections and streaming pitchers

[brooklyn49]

will there be a ROY project using the midpoint of the season as a basis? What a perfect use of my 4th of July weekend.

second question: was there a thread where weekly pitching matchups was discussed in terms of who would you choose if you had to spot start? Or am I misremembering?

[Guest]

ROY project? I'm confused, we've been posting ROY projections all season.

And there were daily threads going on that petered out, but people here are always welcome to start them up....

[Todd Zola]

Should have this weeks rest of year up later tonight or tomorrow morning.

In lieu of the starting pitching posts, I have been doodling behind the scenes with a spreadsheet that numerically ranks each pitcher based on matchup. I have been using it to do the 2-start piece for mlb.com and have been pleasantly surprised by the results. I am hoping to be able to write up the process this weekend and solicit some discussion as there are several moving parts.

[brooklyn49]

ROY project? I'm confused, we've been posting ROY projections all season.

Now, now - why make sport of me because I can't type when there is so much from which to choose? Thank goodness someone on the staff can speak "illiterate". Yes, I do miss reading the daily thread. However, looking forward to both the ROY projections and pitching matchup analysis article.

[brooklyn49]

In lieu of the starting pitching posts, I have been doodling behind the scenes with a spreadsheet that numerically ranks each pitcher based on matchup. I have been using it to do the 2-start piece for mlb.com and have been pleasantly surprised by the results. I am hoping to be able to write up the process this weekend and solicit some discussion as there are several moving parts.

My daily transactions league lends itself to streaming pitchers without the need to consider two-starts vs one-start. What's more, with Slowey today joining Peavy on the DL, it is now a necessity for my team to start finding good spot start match-ups from FA pitchers once or twice a week until the regulars can return. This is not a strategy I have been very successful pursuing in the past. So, if in addition to your earlier article on streaming pitchers, you are working on other tools for anaylsis, I say, "please, bring it on soon!"

[Todd Zola]

To be clear, this is a complete work in progress which will employ empirical methods (at least for now). It will not be an elixir for streamers.

[brooklyn49]

It will not be an elixir for streamers.

Beautiful choice of words, Todd.

First the concept, then the theory, then the operationalizing, then the data collection, then the empirical testing, then the validation, and someday a high probability tool.

Where are you in the process today? I'll take it.