When I was adding up standardized scores, I didn't take into account negative categories, where lower is better than higher (Losses, ERA, WHIP) so my rankings got all switched around.
I started playing with this idea because the (wrong) results were pretty cool and caught my mistake today.
Here are the same tables from the last post in their corrent form. (Again, click links to see the full pic).
Basically there was no movement in the standings except a few people who were close in the standings would flip. Whoopity-do!
Also, my all Steals, no pitching idea would flop horribly.
The no pitching would actually not be the horrible part. Because there are 3 negative categories in the league, I would be on the good side of an outlier for those, but would be on the bad side for the three positive categories (W, K, SV). If I dropped my pitching stats to 0 in the above league, I would have a +.86 combined z-score for pitching as opposed to the -.75 I currently have. The overall swing would be 1.61 or so and would jump me from 6th to 4th.
On the hitting front though, any gains in SB, even if I managed a standardized score over 3, would be more than counteracted by losses in RBI and HR, not to mention the OPS we use in that league.
What a failure of a day and post.
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