Hey buddy...Can you spare a point?

[Edwards Kings]

Everyone on these boards who has been here a while know I am Shandlerite. I was reading the other day on his website about how many runs, rbi's, HR, etc. it would take to gain a point in the standings. Obviously the calculation they had were general (kind of a directionally correct) standard, so I decided to take a look at my Main Event League from last year. I did things a little different. I was not interested in what it took to go from 1.0 points in HR to 15.0 points. That is silly. What I was interested in was looking at the most bunched areas which (if you are in the bunch) is really where you could move up in the standings.

Here is what I found in my Main Event League (focusing on the counting stats).

There was a range of 8.0 points available in a range from 145 to 180 SB. That means, on average, you could earn an additional point for every five stolen bases.

There was a range of 10.0 points available in a range from 250 to 300 HR. That means, on average, you could earn an additional point for every five home runs.

There was a range of 11.0 points available in a range from 945 to 1,030 RBI. That means, on average, you could earn an additional point for every eight RBIs.

There was a range of 9.0 points available in a range from 1000 to 1,085 R. That means, on average, you could earn an additional point for every nine runs.

By the way, with a home run getting you one raw addtional HR, RBI, and R from each of these categories, those five extra home runs already puts you half way to an additional point for R and RBI too.

There was a range of 8.0 points available in a range from 95 to 105 W. That means, on average, you could earn an additional point for every 1.25 wins or five wins is 4.0 points more.

There was a range of 6.0 points available in a range from 82 to 98 S. That means, on average, you could earn an additional point for every three saves.

So, if I had just five more home runs plus three RBI's and four Runs (incremental to the five HR), five more stolen bases, five more wins, and three more saves...let me add that up...wait, I have to take off my shoes...and add those points to where I finished, I would have still sucked.

Still, those incremental stats are not that much additional production to get 9.0 points, especially in tight leagues like ours. It could be thousands of dollars hanging in the balance. BTW, the difference BTW first and second place in my Main Event League last year was only 1.5 points.