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Draft Regret (part 3)

Two weeks ago I started this series looking at the biggest 1st round draft regrets for each team (with some caveats). Thus far I’ve gone over the regret of Fajita Eaters, Ball Busters, Baby Seals, Mauling Tigers, Tom Cat’s, Rollin’ Goats, Your Mom, and Pro Bowlers. The aforementioned caveats…. – I am choosing a player…

The Best CPL Teams of ALL TIME

I had an idea a few nights ago, to make a ranking of the best CPL teams of all time. It’s always stuck in my craw that I had some very good teams in the early 2010’s, and didn’t win a title, and I’ve always wanted to know just how good those teams really were. I always…

Jefferson’s Projections for the 2020 CPL Season

All of my thoughts have been said on the podcast, so this is just an info/ref dump. Please direct all complaints to the trash bin.  The full standings, based on a complete 2020 season W L % GB Your Mom 199 137 0.592 0 Scared Hitless 198 138 0.589 -1 BROB’s Barnacles 177 159 0.527…

CPL Fantasy WAR! – Tom Cat’s style

The reason for my math lecture in the last post was to hopefully generate some better understanding for how I got the results for this post, Fantasy CPL Wins Above Replacement (CPLWAR? CWAR? FWAR?). First, this post will just focus on hitters. Pitchers are boring. Replacement Definition: For my replacement line, I started with my 2020 projections,…

Draft Regret (part 2)

Last week I started a series on here looking at draft regrets and it seemed like it generated some interest. Here we are for round 2 and 4 more teams. The same rules apply as before: – I am choosing a player that was passed if that player was taken within 3 picks of when…

Roto Standings – Bullpen vs Rotation

In an effort to ease into my follow up articles, I thought I’d start with a bit of a layup and look at how each teams pitching staffs breakdown. Because of the way my projection system works, bullpens and rotations are calculated independently, then combined at the end. As a result, the data collection was…

2020 CPL Season Projections – aka the season that never was

I’ll try to make this short. First, thanks to all of you for your help in generating teams rosters. You guys saved me about a dozen hours of work. I will do several followup articles on specific aspects of this system.But for the moment, in this post I will only highlight the primary improvement for…