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Re: Nationals @ Phillies, Game 3
« Reply #50: April 15, 2010, 02:09:36 PM »
You're being sarcastic, right?  :icon_mrgreen: You are not serious, right?  :icon_mrgreen:
Actually, I am serious, and I'm glad you did not call me Shirley.  Optimum and the line up were both between 4.3 - 4.4 runs.  Optimized, by their tool, would use Dunn, Willingham, and Desmond for the most part in 1, 2, and 4 (orders vary), with Pudge and Guz mostly in 3 & 5 and Morgan 6, I think. Olsen 9th.  I used Zips rest of season projection fro everyone except Maxwell (I used Bill James) and Olsen (I used career average. 

It's a fun tool, but it does not account for running and for handedness if you don't plug in split projections.  Basically, it is going to spit out something like, "get your two guys with .900+ OPs up as frequently as possible when the rest of the team is in the .700s, at best."