re: SBL Week 9

based on ESPN player rater, what can you answer? Yes, i am bored an IRT all day today

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Pop quiz, hotshot.

Hit Parade

What resource on our site is the best place to find statistical valuations and rankings of every player's year-to-date performance?

If you answered the Player Rater, well done, as you're already familiar with our player valuation tool, which weights every player's contribution in the 10 prominent Rotisserie categories, then comes up with a total score that shows the impact that player has had thus far. If you answered "shoot the hostage," then perhaps you've spent too much time memorizing lines from 19-year-old movies.

While we often emphasize on these pages the difference between Player Rater and rest-of-year rankings, occasionally casting aside the former's rankings while formulating our cases, there remain valuable lessons to be learned by the former's findings. For example, it informs us that James Loney, despite a batting average four points higher than Marco Scutaro's, has actually contributed less in the category to his fantasy teams; this is because Scutaro's mark has come in 196 at-bats, or 33 more than Loney has. Scutaro's batting-average contribution has therefore had more influence, if only because he has hit at a rate that much higher than the league's average while doing so in a larger sample that more greatly influences your team's final number, his Player Rating standing a perfect illustration of this.

Sticking with the dual themes of pop quizzes and the Player Rater, why not combine the two in an impromptu "Player Rater Pop Quiz"?

See how many of the following 11 questions you can get right; the answers are at the bottom. Also -- no cheating!

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1. Name the 10 players under the age of 25 to rank among the top 100 hitters.

2. Who is the only player to have led the Player Rater in two separate weeks this season? (For these purposes, a week is one Monday-Sunday scoring period, which would be the "Last 7" report on the Player Rater on Mondays.)

3. Which batting title-eligible hitter is the closest to earning a score of exactly zero in terms of batting average?

4. Who is the only player to have registered at least 2.00 in every one of the five Player Rater hitting categories? (Thanks to Pierre Becquey for this one.)

5. Which is the only team with four players ranked among the top 25 hitters?

6. Name the three teams that do not have a single hitter in the top 75.

7. Who is the lowest-rated player to have appeared in at least 95 percent of his team's games?

8. Which team has two catchers, each of whom has made a minimum of 15 starts at the position, ranked among the top 15 at the position?

9. Who are the only two rookies to rank among the top 100 hitters?

10. Who is the highest-ranked player to have spent at least 15 days on the disabled list already this season?

11. Which top-100 rated hitter has started only 52 percent of his team's games -- making him the highest-rated hitter with starts in less than 60 percent?

4. CarGo
5. O's
9. Gattis and ?
10. Ortiz

Here's where we stand, I

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Mattingly says team will call up a true CF within a few days, is not considering Joc Pederson or Yasiel Puig (OK, it's Tony Gwynn)

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And Dillon Gee struckout 12

Dillon Gee is a jizzrag. Mother fricker can never make it through the lineup a third time without getting blasted until the start after I fricking drop him.

welcome to the bigs, WACHA

Gregorious
Franklin
Jeter
Rutledge



OTB!!!