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My only problem with the Fangraphs scoring is that it greatly diminishes the closer role which isn't real baseball.
We can't wait three years. The scoring in here is absurdly bad so changing that has to be a priority. I'd like to do it this year but I just don't think it would be fair to owners. Making it known now gives all owners a year's warning which I feel is plenty of notice.
If the role were diminished there would be three guys per team with 10+ saves each because with it being a diminished role you could put your most valuable reliever in the most crucial role rather than the closer role. When middle relievers make what closers make, that will be an indicator of diminished role.
I disagree. The Fangraphs settings reflect how well a player performs. Putting such a heavy emphasis on something as unpredictable as the closer carousel is poor policy, imo. Teams also used to payout tons of money to players because they accumulated a lot of RBIs/Runs. The times are a-changing and that's why advanced fantasy leagued don't give much merit to the "luck stats" (Wins, RBIs, Runs, Saves, etc.).
You're free to run your team how you like. Again, closers make much more than middle relievers and it's not because they have a diminished role. You can't cherry pick some parts of data over two years to make claims contradicted by other sets of data like salary. If the closer role were diminished, it would be a carousel within the season. Managing payroll and dropping older closers like Mujica for arbitration pitchers like Rosenthal doesn't equate to a diminished role for the position, especially when the younger, cheaper closer is just flat out better.And if you read particularly the pitching breakdown of the fangraphs scoring you will see that by their own admission, non-pitcher performanceplays a factor in the scoring. BTW, those stats aren't luck. They're team dependent stats much like home runs, obp, and era are park dependent stats.
If the league wants to give closers a prominent role, I'm fine with it. I just think players should receive points based on how well they perform, not by how many times they luck into a save opportunity.