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0 Subject: Daily Blurb - August 28, 2013

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 10:54

Quote of the day
"You can't score zero runs and win the game. It's not going to happen." -- Indians OF Michael Bourn, after a 2-0 loss in his return to Atlanta

Daily blurb
Some people have trouble hitting woods. But two Woods had no trouble missing bats last night, as Alex Wood and Travis Wood combined to allow only one run in 12.2 IP, fanning 13. Travis even bested Cy Young frontrunner Clayton Kershaw.

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Yahoo released a complete revampment of its sports pages. So far, I don’t like it at all. The grey font over an uneven dark background is often hard to read, and I’ve noticed a lot of misfires over the past day, with pages coming up empty, or data (like boxscores) sometimes appearing and sometimes not. The one thing I liked about Yahoo’s presentation was that it was simple, clean, complete, and easy to read. Not so anymore. And some statistical baseball data that I used to look at is no longer available.

This all created some hiccups at DailyBaseballData.com yesterday, as I had been accessing some limited data from some Yahoo pages. I was able to restore the most critical processes, but some reconstruction is going to linger, as I’ve got too much football activity on my crowded plate this week.

Speaking of football, the RIFC Rationale thread is now available, updated on about a two round lag from the actual draft. When evaluating this draft, remember that the RIFC has very deep rosters, including 7 individual defensive starters, and also includes kick and punt return stats. The IDP points are also skewed vs traditional leagues in order to provide more consistent value across positions (with points included for tackles, sacks, tackle-for-loss, QB hits, & passes defensed). So while some picks may seem odd, they might make perfect sense in this format. And then again, some might just be odd.

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