Lance Berkman's Rage

The big news this week, of course, is the adjustment made to the loss stat. While the adjustment had to be made it makes me sad today. One of the things that I was looking forward to was having a history of the league's activity so at the end of the year we could look back and see exactly where everyone was all the way through the season. I thought a line chart would be cool. I think it would look better with more information. Anyway with the stat adjustment, it skews all the previous data. While it is useful, it is not accurate. But hey! what are you going to do? So bring on the numbers.

		Team	Total	Bats	/Slot	Arms	/Start
1.		The Congregationals	8518	4108	7.52	4410	27.84
2.		Mudville Nine	8501	4206	7.70	4295	27.11
3.		EVIL EMPIRE	8197	4109	7.52	4088	25.80
4.		Bru Cru	8189	4063	7.44	4126	26.04
5.		Wizzard of Ozzie	8188	4108	7.52	4080	25.75
6.		Banana Slugs	8066	3653	6.69	4413	27.85
7.		Little Leaguer	8036	4098	7.50	3937	24.85
8.		Sonic Death Monkees	7928	4082	7.47	3846	24.28
9.		Florida Pirates	7769	4108	7.52	3661	23.11
10.		Mac & Zack Attack 2	7344	3814	6.98	3529	22.27
11.		Rosies Angels	7177	3516	6.43	3661	23.11
12.		Columbus Mad Cows	7135	3636	6.65	3499	22.08

I didn't do the weekly numbers because they wouldn't make sense. It's funny but that bothers me more than getting bumped out of first.

The 'L' adjustment lowered the /start stat. Looks even better (or worse actually). I wanted to average 30 for the year. Kind of a goal. By the numbers at this point, 30 is fantastic.

The bats held pretty steady. It bears remembering that the numbers won't fluctuate as much the further we get into the season. So while Mudville gained .08, at this point it is a significant gain. He is almost 100 points ahead of the rest of us. One thing I noticed was that three of us had the same offensive number this week. 4108.

It is impossible to pinpoint the blame for the changes in position this week. Was it performance or manipulation? Bru, Wizard and Evil are very close together. But they fell a little back of Mud and I. Speaking of which, we are essentially tied. I sure hope Arod goes into a prolonged slump.