Variation on a theme

by Pat, Friday, February 27, 2009, 06:02 (6299 days ago) @ Savage

I'm working on a BGS post that lists out returning playing time at each position. Now that I've done the post for a few years, I threw all the numbers into a very basic spreadsheet and noted the low point for each position (red) and high point (yellow).

Nothing surprising, but another visual representation of returning experience during the Charlie Era.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pgVYtu2gX2Z9vL6wGDLMOBw

The downfall of this metric though is that it doesn't account for guys like Paul Duncan, Mike Ragone, or Darrin Walls for 2009. Maybe I should do a little more work and come up with a cumulative career returning minutes measure. That would look mostly like Funk/Savage's data, but would also include important backups.