Best In The West

But not all that different than your typical Marcel, Chone etc… I just put more weight on what has happened recently than they do – and I use a log scale instead of a linear scale for weighting. I am not saying my method is better or worse. Our aging curves are probably very similar, but I am sure our regression methods have some differences too.
vr, Xei

First off, a little methodology background. I got roster depths from each teams Yahoo website, so hopefully the rotations are correct – or atleast close to correct. What I am doing is using 7 starting pitchers for each team. I use a regular 5 man rotation, but every once in a while I have the 6th or 7th starter sub in for one of the top five starters. I didn’t want all the top five starters all getting 32 or 33 starts, as that wasn’t too realistic. I programmed it so the top starter gets the most starts and the #7 starter gets the least amount.

I tried to order each rotation as to have the best starter at #1 and worst at #5, with #6 and #7 usually be a minor leaguer, mop up man in the pen or a spring training invitee – basically the bottom tier starters are pretty much the same so in most cases it was pick your poison of replacement level starting pitcher. Here is what I used for the Rangers.

1. Harden
2. Feldman
3. Hunter
4. Holland
5. Lewis
6. McCarthy
7. Nippert

I am not too much concerned if the order is “slightly” wrong, as it shouldn’t change the results much unless I had Harden at #5 or something along those lines. If I am missing someone from the rotation please point it out and I can add him in.
vr, Xei