Made my own ratings calculator

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by rascoc

The minor leaguers on the spreadsheet are from Zip Projections. An to answer a question, if two people have the same name, you would need to spell one's name differently in every location its listed.

I have a question with that though...

Yangervis Solarte is a projected 82 & 74 contact hitter....That's better than a lot of major leaguers....This guy is only a starting 2B in AAA Round Rock.

[DSzymborski]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

Hey Dan do you think it would be wise for rascoc to incorporate all major projection systems into a composite rating for his calculator? Me being a Mariners fan, I noticed your system is particularly harsh on the M's hitters(and the A's but I could care less about them), I honestly don't see Ichiro repeating last year and Ackley getting worse, or Catricala being our 4th best hitter; does the ZiPS system use comparable players and career paths or does it heavily favor the most recent year? Also, for guys who have not made it to the bigs yet but already have projections - How are their ratings determined and is a similar system used for MLB'ers with a year or less experience?

You'll get less variance, for sure. Depends on taste, though I'd recommend leaving James out of any composite.

[DSzymborski]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scott

I have a question with that though... Yangervis Solarte is a projected 82 & 74 contact hitter....That's better than a lot of major leaguers....This guy is only a starting 2B in AAA Round Rock.

Well, if he was better at the other stuff, he wouldn't be in AAA. There are lots of contact guys who don't bring enough to the table otherwise.

[DSzymborski]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

Hey Dan do you think it would be wise for rascoc to incorporate all major projection systems into a composite rating for his calculator? Me being a Mariners fan, I noticed your system is particularly harsh on the M's hitters(and the A's but I could care less about them), I honestly don't see Ichiro repeating last year and Ackley getting worse, or Catricala being our 4th best hitter; does the ZiPS system use comparable players and career paths or does it heavily favor the most recent year? Also, for guys who have not made it to the bigs yet but already have projections - How are their ratings determined and is a similar system used for MLB'ers with a year or less experience?

Sorry, meant to be more detailed.

Yeah, ZiPS uses large pools of comparable players (including now nearly 40 years of minor leaguers).

Catricala's a pretty good hitter - if his defense wasn't atrocious, he'd be in the lineup!

[DSzymborski]

Quote: Originally Posted by eman11

rascoc, I noticed you have prospects in there that can be added, so a couple of quick questions before I potentially implement them: a) are the ZiPS projections what they should CURRENTLY be (i.e. are they lessened to reflect that a guy projected to hit .330 in AA isn't going to hit .330 in the majors)? and if so, b) for a guy like Josh Bell who, where there are 2 prospects that share the same name (Orioles guy and Pirates guy), how would I distinguish between the 2 in ZiPS?

It's projecting major league equivalent performance - I'm not projecting minor league performance. That's why most minor leaguers come out pretty terrible (else they'd be at higher levels!)

I try to avoid duplicating names same-season to give myself less of a headache. There are a few ones I missed (forgot about there being 2 Paul Phillipses). Not like we can use MLBAM ID for a Show roster!

[DSzymborski]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bahnzo

I didn't ask permission. I used a .dll that someone else had already written to parse html. It was somewhat complicated, but worked well when I learned the ins and outs. The pain was B-R constantly changed their site and I had to rewrite the code every time they did it. I'd have done it much differently if I knew that.

I doubt Sean would mind. If you need help getting data from him for a specific purpose, you could probably just ask him.

If you're data-mining splits or something, retrosheet has a very simple structure.

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by DSzymborski

Well, if he was better at the other stuff, he wouldn't be in AAA. There are lots of contact guys who don't bring enough to the table otherwise.

I gotcha his ratings were like this when i inputed it in...

RT Contact - 82
LT Contact - 74
RT Power - 30
LT Power - 35
Vision - 86
Discipline - 37
Clutch - 66
Durability - 64
BR Ability - 61
BR Aggressiveness - 9

So that doesn't seem too far stretched.

[eman11]

Quote: Originally Posted by DSzymborski

It's projecting major league equivalent performance - I'm not projecting minor league performance. That's why most minor leaguers come out pretty terrible (else they'd be at higher levels!) I try to avoid duplicating names same-season to give myself less of a headache. There are a few ones I missed (forgot about there being 2 Paul Phillipses). Not like we can use MLBAM ID for a Show roster!

Okay great. I'm a Pirates can so saw some big numbers for Grossman and Marte and wanted to be sure they were fair.

Totally understandable on duplicate names, just wasn't sure if I needed to do anything different like "Josh Bell - PIT" or "Josh Bell - RF" to distinguish the 2 if he did exist.