tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35277765.post4544963040570917896..comments2022-03-25T00:32:25.559-07:00Comments on Thoughts from a Bionic Lime: Week 6 New System Top Board HonorsBionic Limehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056656079490255005noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35277765.post-17397306817362732742008-10-07T11:55:00.000-07:002008-10-07T11:55:00.000-07:00Definitely a very viable system. You seem to be t...Definitely a very viable system. You seem to be taking into account the most important of the factors that we do in determining the All Stars (score, performance rating, number of games).<BR/><BR/>Of course, there are certain things that your model doesn't (at least yet) consider, things like maybe making playoff games or games in the final week as counted to be more important (clutch factor) or just the fact that the circumstances your wins occurred under (i.e. due to playing well or opponents make horrible blunders, though not sure how you could reasonably model that statistic).<BR/><BR/>But given your model does include the most important factors, the main issue seems to be the weight you give to each of the factors; how much should each actually be? To be honest, I have no idea, it's not like we have a fixed way of doing All Stars ourselves either, but based on the totals you've come up with for the shown players, it definitely looks reasonable to me at this point (like your model seems to indicate that Nakamura and Erenburg are very close, but both reasonably higher than third place, something which I felt was true also, and same thing with Shankland and Young). <BR/><BR/>One thing that kind of exemplifies how our systems might differ is that I was very close to putting Friedel above Ippolito on my teams, given in large part to the circumstances around their respective games. As I decided not to despite that fact, it's not surprising that you had them in a reasonably big gap based purely on the statistics, but as I said, they were very close in my opinion (you have Esserman much closer to Naroditsky than Friedel is to Ippolito while I would definitely have that reversed).<BR/><BR/>It will be interesting to see how this compares to our end of season teams when we take into account the greater importance of the playoff performances, which as mentioned above includes a few factors that your model doesn't currently have so whether that will make a big difference or not remains to be seen.Arun Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17502944059031864655noreply@blogger.com