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Eugene Church · 11-10-2005, 03:07 PM

arod23, thanks for the quick response...and thanks to Garlon and you for creating this league. Both of you are valuable members of our community.

I don't want to be Korinthinkacker (nitpicker) as I know we will not all agree totally on historical player ratings, but I would be interested to know why you rated several players as you did.

I went in and checked some of your ratings in the normalized database and I noticed quite a few power pitchers that were rated as 6 in velocity...Walter Johnson, Smokey Joe Wood and Rube Waddell were the ones I noticed. It has always been my impression that they would be 9's. This opinion is based on research that I have come across in my study of baseball talents.

I also noticed that modern pitchers seem to have much higher ratings in stuff, when compared to pitchers of earlier eras, especially the Deadballers.

Your comments would be appreciated.

11-10-2005, 03:07 PM	#14
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,206	arod23, thanks for the quick response...and thanks to Garlon and you for creating this league. Both of you are valuable members of our community. I don't want to be Korinthinkacker (nitpicker) as I know we will not all agree totally on historical player ratings, but I would be interested to know why you rated several players as you did. I went in and checked some of your ratings in the normalized database and I noticed quite a few power pitchers that were rated as 6 in velocity...Walter Johnson, Smokey Joe Wood and Rube Waddell were the ones I noticed. It has always been my impression that they would be 9's. This opinion is based on research that I have come across in my study of baseball talents. I also noticed that modern pitchers seem to have much higher ratings in stuff, when compared to pitchers of earlier eras, especially the Deadballers. Your comments would be appreciated. Last edited by Eugene Church; 11-10-2005 at 03:09 PM.