Quote of the day
"There's no matchup for [Dwight Howard] that creates the excitement. If you got back to when the centers were king, you have Chamberlain-Russell and people say 'Wow, that's a matchup you look forward to.' Now people look forward to Chris Paul against Derrick Rose. ... People have played good games against Dwight, but still, where's the anticipated matchup?" -- Orlando head coach Stan Van Gundy, commenting on why Howard’s big games don’t seem to generate national attentionDaily blurb
Two more baseball games succumbed to rainy weather yesterday. That bring the total to 12 rainouts through just the first 20 days of the 2011 season. By comparison, there were only 2 rainouts during the entire month of April in 2010.
I finally got the bullpen usage report re-activated at the DailyBaseballData.com site. Reformatted source data (and my recent vacation) had delayed resurrecting that report. It provides a comprehensive summary of reliever usage over recent days (up to the past week), and can be a useful tool to identify closers who might be unavailable due to heavy workload, and to assess who might be called upon to fill in for current day save situations. The report is easily expandable to show daily details for any player or team. If you want to analyze how any team’s bullpen is being used, this can be a convenient and effective tool to work with.
The Heritage golf tournament tees off early tomorrow morning. As of this morning, there are still more than 100 GuruGolf teams with inactive golfers. Set those lineups today!
Speaking of GuruGolf, I turned on the mulligan scoring feature last week. For the full season standings, each team gets to discard its worst tournament of the season (although the four major tournaments cannot be excluded). If you hover the cursor over any team’s full season score in the GuruGolf standings, details will appear for that team’s currently excluded tournament.