How does this ignorance still exist?

[haveacigar]

An RBI is really good at telling me what players drove in the most runners for a given year. I'd actually say that RBI's are THE BEST stat for telling me that information.

Touche.

[metsguy234]

Oh, and, on top of that, even in that situation, chances are he's SCORED runs, and therefore was not "worthless." If he scored no runs, that means the teammates behind him sucked and he never hit home runs (and thus would have had to hit a boatload of doubles and triples to get a .500 SLG ), but was still not worthless.

He was pretty worthless if he wasn't involved in any runs being scored.

He probably wouldn't be worthless in future years.

[haveacigar]

He probably wouldn't be worthless in future years.

Well then why would I give a damn about how "worthless" he was that one time? It would be completely irrelevant to the whole "building a baseball team" thing, which is kind of the point.

[HoustonGM]

He was pretty worthless if he wasn't involved in any runs being scored.

No, his teammates behind him and in front of him were worthless. There is only one thing for a player to do to directly produce a run by himself and that is a home run (okay, and steal home). If he doesn't hit home runs and only gets on base but never scores or drives in runs, that's because the teammates ahead and behind of him aren't doing their job.

He probably wouldn't be worthless in future years.

You're right, and this is why RBI's are useless at evaluating A PLAYER'S ABILITY.

[metsguy234]

Well then why would I give a damn about how "worthless" he was that one time? It would be completely irrelevant to the whole "building a baseball team" thing, which is kind of the point.

We're not GMs.

[HoustonGM]

We're not GMs.

So we should act stupid when evaluating players because we're not actually making any decisions?

[Billy Ripken]

We're not GMs.

christ even my god dammned older brother CJ knows that.
Are you mentaly chalenged?

[TheNamelessPoet]

We're not GMs.

christ even my god dammned older brother CJ knows that.
Are you mentaly chalenged?

lol OWNED!!!

[Billy Ripken]

lol OWNED!!!

Yea and you are much smarter!!!

[TheNamelessPoet]

Yea and you are much smarter!!!

wtf

[metsguy234]

TNP stop making alts

[TheNamelessPoet]

TNP stop making alts

yea its me... I am the one who always said ban all alts

[haveacigar]

We're not GMs.

Look, if you want to jack off to a player's RBI totals, be my guest. But when talking about analyzing players and rosters, they are meaningless. And since this thread is about someone criticizing a GM's ability to do just that, that's the relevant focus.

[TheNamelessPoet]

Look, if you want to jack off to a player's RBI totals, be my guest. But when talking about analyzing players and rosters, they are meaningless. And since this thread is about someone criticizing a GM's ability to do just that, that's the relevant focus.

*beat beat beat*

[Alloutwar]

Sorry for the confusion - TNP thought 'RBI' meant 'Really Bald Intellectuals'

he's in love with men lately