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Podlesh has been awful with his kicks.

Shoulda ran it on third and short.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 19, 2012 -> 07:47 PM) That call was brutal. Bears defense needs to play way tighter cause Im not sure Kapernick can complete a pass over 30 yards. The look on a couple of the fans they showed shows how brutal the call was. They looked like they had no idea what the flag was about.

Conte seems to get the most absurd calls ever. Maybe he shouldn't have tackled Manningham when he was on the ground, but Manningham was in bounds and he was not down by contact. I don't see that as roughness...

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Nov 19, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) Nobody uses bWAR. People who like to point out holes in WAR use bWAR.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 19, 2012 -> 03:24 PM) Depends whose WAR you are looking at. The Baseball Reference has his WAR 3rd behind Lofton and Griffey. Those differences are based purely on defensive metrics, which back in 1994...were bad. They didn't use UZR back then, they used a form of Total Zone instead.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 19, 2012 -> 03:16 PM) I'm pretty sure if the MVP were voted based entirely on sabermetrics, Frank Thomas would have won zero MVPs. He would have definitely won in 1994. 93...not so much. He would have won in 97 had Griffey not hit 56 home runs...

Congrats dude!

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Nov 19, 2012 -> 12:27 PM) I have no problem with people's thoughts on the MVP race - as I said earlier, there's no wrong answer - but as a general rule, the word "pesky" is not often used to describe a player with a .963 OPS. There was also that post that said Trout had a bad September...a September where he hit .289/.400/.500. So none of you would like your leadoff hitter with a .900 OPS? Ok.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 19, 2012 -> 09:49 AM) Considering what offense looked like in that era to what it looks like now, DiMaggio WAR should be much higher then, not lower. I have a hard time believing this and I think a lot of people will...but the offense back in 1941 was better on average than the offense of today, a lot better. 1941 AL average wOBA: .334 2012 AL average wOBA: .315 So no, there was a reason that DiMaggio appeared to be less valuable. And also, FanGraphs had DiMaggio's 1941 season at 10.6 WAR. But then again, you should take any fielding stats in WAR with a huge grain of salt before the year 2002. Note: you can dig those stats up on FanGraphs: http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...=1B/3B#advanced Click on averages and see the trend that is developing...offense is dying at a linear pace.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 18, 2012 -> 09:00 PM) Does that minimize the credit they get for 3-run saves? If so, that's helpful in legitimizing the calculation. Leverage is based on how close the score is, what inning it is, how many outs, and how many men are on base. So yeah, it would mean 3 run saves would be less meaningful than 1 run saves.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Nov 17, 2012 -> 10:28 PM) This is where I really disagree with the WAR calculation. It mostly uses innings pitched in the calculation. I would say a reliever could have an impact on more games than a starter. WAR for relievers takes Leverage Index into account, so in a sense, they are getting more credit for pitching in innings that are more important.

Holy Matt Schaub. 527 passing yards, 5 TDs. 48.35 fantasy points. That's gotta be the second best performance of the year (next to Doug Martin).

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Nov 18, 2012 -> 03:10 PM) Wow. Cowboys just got f***ED by a bad horsecollar call. John Phillips grabbed Cribb's hair to pull him down, but the refs called it as grabbing his shoulder pad. 15 extra yards and a TD 1 play later. f***ing garbage. Pretty sure you're not supposed to tackle people by their hair...

So how the hell did the Browns come back?

Thanks for nothing Detroit.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 18, 2012 -> 02:03 PM) Is it raining, windy, and 40 degrees? I think the bears texans would have looked much different on a nice day. I'm not saying the bears win, but it would be a different game than 13-6 This is the Jaguars we're talking about here though. I understand that the weather sucked last week, but the Texans defense is playing like absolute s*** this week. They looked great last week.

The Jaguars and Chad Henne are picking the Texans defense apart. Were the Bears just that bad on offense last week or did the Texans regress horribly?

Started LSH yesterday since Heyward-Bey was questionable. It's turned into gold.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 16, 2012 -> 01:08 PM) The standards for MVP voting. I did not know games played was actually a standard. Hamilton won two years back even though he played something like 130 games. In this case, the fact that Trout missed a month is actually a strength in the argument for Trout. Trout was so good that if he did play for a full season, you could easily assume that he hits 35-40 home runs and maybe steals 60-65 bases. Plus, the Trout actually out-WAR'd Cabrera or any other AL player by at least 3 wins...despite playing in 20 less games. That speaks volumes to how good he really was.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 16, 2012 -> 10:50 PM) Terry Pendleton over Barry Bonds and Howard Johnson in '91 disproves that MVP is entirely stats driven. Unless you're a monster like A-Rod. The problem is that the award has always been driven by the wrong stats. Nobody is asking these writers to vote based on WAR, that's boring. All we're asking is that these writers look at stats that tell you a bit more about the player himself. Not his RBI, not the amount of runs he scored, and definitely not how many games his team won. Dave Cameron put this in perspective the other day. The uproar over this decision has little to do with WAR. It has nothing to do with stats vs. scouts. It has everything to do with how the writers value runs batted in and the playoff status of a player's team. If you can't even get passed the fact that RBI isn't a good determining factor in the offensive value of a player and that a player has almost no control over how the rest of his team plays, then there's a long ways to go.

Played about 30 min of single player today for Black Ops II: meh.

Well, having Sammy Sosa's name in there probably taints the significance of that tidbit.

In related news: Rios got 4th (really?), 9th, and 10th place votes and finished ahead of Albert Pujols and Joe Mauer.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 15, 2012 -> 05:48 PM) And if Cabrera isn't on the Tigers, they probably finish 3rd. Behind the Indians? Really? Without Cabrera, they probably finish 2nd. But without Trout, the Angels probably finish with something like 78-79 wins.