Just looking for some quick (but on topic) input......

playing in a theme league where your batters come from 5 individual seasons. one of mine, and by far the "best" is 1930 (ugh???)

even though normalization says that the production of the 1930 guys will suffer, if their normalized numbers still list as better than those of guys from other seasons, is my best bet to go with them regardless?

it scares me to think of a lineup made of primarily 1930 hitters!

I go by a few simple rules:

1) Use # stats for everything except home runs and slugging regardless of the year. This is probably the best and easiest way to figure how a guy is going to perform. (And I have used 1894 and 1930 guys and they usualy live up the their # stats.)

2) The lower the cap or more competitive league, I will start to weigh in the + stats.

The direction the normalization goes is irrelevant. Whether or not they are priced fair is.

Expect your 1930 guys to underperform, but .401 hitting Bill Terry should still hit .360 or better (depending upon the cap).

The drop from .401 to .360 is a huge drop. Is this the norm or close to norm in # stats ? So a .360 will hit at a .320 stat, and so on ? Does this vary from salary to salary cap ?

Well if you're in the same league as me where the cap is $140M I would be ecstatic if I got .360 out of Terry. Guys from 1930 should do fine for you in that league and I wouldn't shy away from using them. At 140M, you can't expect the players to live up to their real-life numbers regardless of the normalization (pitching is going to be much better than they faced in real life).

Bill Terry 30 L

1B*

2

100

241

221

5

40

0

.367

.419

.520

9.27M

140M cap in League Park II

12+ plays as well in 50 games.

Quote: Originally Posted By boogerlips on 11/16/2009The direction the normalization goes is irrelevant. Whether or not they are priced fair is.

Obviously, price for performance is an issue in any league under a $200M cap or so. My point was that given two players of equal cost in different years, I'd simply use # stats to judge which is better.

I, too, generally stay away from hitters from the 30's, but when i have, i think that generally, what the previous authors have posted here has been true for me as well. In my 1917-1941 league, with 120m cap and 6/2 waa AAA, u-pic-'em, the batting averages of players from the '20's and 30's are lower than RL, but their power numbers are comparable to what I expected, considering their # numbers, and the ballpark i put them in. As i hadn't used these players before, i chose defense over offense, when reasonable, and that strategy has proven correct. So that would be my advice to you. My thoughts as i drafted were that if i draft D, at least i'm getting something if their O underperforms. That has proven itself to be true. Defensively, they have been at least as good as i expected, no disappointments there. And they have hit well enough to have me in 1st place by a comfortable margin.

Quote: Originally Posted By wonker on 11/16/2009
Just looking for some quick (but on topic) input......

it scares me to think of a lineup made of primarily 1930 hitters!

The direction the normalization goes is irrelevant. Whether or not they are priced fair is.