Volume
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:57 pm
We are all volume players in one way or another.
We will choose a player with four games during the week over a slightly better player with a two game week.
We will draft a lead off hitter over a batter that hits down in the lineup.
We will start two-start pitchers over a better pitcher who has one start.
We will draft a pitcher with no injury past over those that do.
The strategy in all of these cases is to get more volume or more chances to fill categories.
The belief in volume is that we don't have to be smarter. That if a player has enough at bats or innings, that he should obtain hits or strike outs or whatever else we're looking for from that player.
We invite luck.
If choosing Trey Mancini in playing three games over Matt Kemp, playing two, we are not stating that Mancini is not the better player, only that Mancini will have more chances to be the better player.
I wondered if volume is that great.
I found that it really was not.
In looking at the Overall Standings in the Main Event, only two teams who are in the top 10 of the standings are in the top 50 for innings pitched.
At bats find four teams from the top 10 in the top 50 of Overall Standings.
We walk the thin line of volume or vacuum.
In a vacuum, we put our best players forward at all times.
We even draft and study in a vacuum. We KNOW that player A is better than player B.
So, we draft player A.
But, when it comes down to player A for two games or player B for four?
That is a different story.
Desperation makes everybody do crazy things in all walks of life.
It is no different in fantasy baseball.
Low in the standings in strike outs or Wins?
We will start a 2-start Miami pitcher over a more talented one start pitcher.
We toss aside talent and start hoping to get wild cards in our draw.
We know that the leaders who roster Sale, Scherzer, Severino, etc will probably see more strike outs in their one start than desperation with a unreliable 2-starter, but we do it all the same.
In this way, desperation helps in driving up innings for losing teams.
In most cases, this volume tends to make owners feel good for only a short period of time.
They pay for the privilege for 2-starters with faab. Happy that they 'win' the bid.
Happy they are rostered and equally happy to start the pitcher.
Mostly, unhappy when the pitcher actually throws pitches.
Realization hits home that volume does not equal a trophy.
As said, it is a fine line we walk.
We want the most from our players.
We want them to be like Alcides Escobar in playing every day.
We just don't want them to be playing every day like Alcides Escobar.
It's tough/
It is both a very under estimated and very under appreciated skill for NFBC players.
We will choose a player with four games during the week over a slightly better player with a two game week.
We will draft a lead off hitter over a batter that hits down in the lineup.
We will start two-start pitchers over a better pitcher who has one start.
We will draft a pitcher with no injury past over those that do.
The strategy in all of these cases is to get more volume or more chances to fill categories.
The belief in volume is that we don't have to be smarter. That if a player has enough at bats or innings, that he should obtain hits or strike outs or whatever else we're looking for from that player.
We invite luck.
If choosing Trey Mancini in playing three games over Matt Kemp, playing two, we are not stating that Mancini is not the better player, only that Mancini will have more chances to be the better player.
I wondered if volume is that great.
I found that it really was not.
In looking at the Overall Standings in the Main Event, only two teams who are in the top 10 of the standings are in the top 50 for innings pitched.
At bats find four teams from the top 10 in the top 50 of Overall Standings.
We walk the thin line of volume or vacuum.
In a vacuum, we put our best players forward at all times.
We even draft and study in a vacuum. We KNOW that player A is better than player B.
So, we draft player A.
But, when it comes down to player A for two games or player B for four?
That is a different story.
Desperation makes everybody do crazy things in all walks of life.
It is no different in fantasy baseball.
Low in the standings in strike outs or Wins?
We will start a 2-start Miami pitcher over a more talented one start pitcher.
We toss aside talent and start hoping to get wild cards in our draw.
We know that the leaders who roster Sale, Scherzer, Severino, etc will probably see more strike outs in their one start than desperation with a unreliable 2-starter, but we do it all the same.
In this way, desperation helps in driving up innings for losing teams.
In most cases, this volume tends to make owners feel good for only a short period of time.
They pay for the privilege for 2-starters with faab. Happy that they 'win' the bid.
Happy they are rostered and equally happy to start the pitcher.
Mostly, unhappy when the pitcher actually throws pitches.
Realization hits home that volume does not equal a trophy.
As said, it is a fine line we walk.
We want the most from our players.
We want them to be like Alcides Escobar in playing every day.
We just don't want them to be playing every day like Alcides Escobar.
It's tough/
It is both a very under estimated and very under appreciated skill for NFBC players.