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by **AwalKB** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:50 pm

magoosh007 wrote:Oh boy I have to actually think for myself now Thanks NH for all the help we all really appreciate it.

100% agree

by **nebgib5** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:16 am

thanks for all of your help this season, NHsportsfan.

by **MissingOakley** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:31 pm

Thanks NH!

by **Magnus_CA** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:50 am

NHsportsfan wrote:I've had some things come up in my life so that I'm not going to be able to continue posting rankings at this time. I don't expect to be back the rest of this season anyhow and it's too early to tell if I'll return to posting rankings next year.

I'm OK, but I have to reprioritize some things and I can't continue the daily time commitment to this thread. It's actually felt very freeing the past couple of days to not go through the grind of churning out the numbers.

Thanks to all who have participated this season and offered your kind words. I wish I could keep helping you out and do the other things I need to as well but it's just not possible at this time.

Thanks NH for all your hard work!

Have you considered passing on your work to someone else to let the legacy continue?

by **Chicago RedSox** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:15 am

NH, a hearty thank you from me to you for all the time and hard work you put in. I finished in first place this season, thanks in large part to you and your rankings. I hope to see you back next year, but I'm sure we'll manage without you. Now go enjoy those beautiful White Mountains!

by **sportsguy138** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:11 pm

Magnus_CA wrote:
NHsportsfan wrote:I've had some things come up in my life so that I'm not going to be able to continue posting rankings at this time. I don't expect to be back the rest of this season anyhow and it's too early to tell if I'll return to posting rankings next year.

I'm OK, but I have to reprioritize some things and I can't continue the daily time commitment to this thread. It's actually felt very freeing the past couple of days to not go through the grind of churning out the numbers.

Thanks to all who have participated this season and offered your kind words. I wish I could keep helping you out and do the other things I need to as well but it's just not possible at this time.

Thanks NH for all your hard work!

Have you considered passing on your work to someone else to let the legacy continue?

I actually did tell NH in a PM that if he wanted to, he could try to teach me the formulas for me to make the rankings, I never got a response though. With this season pretty much being done however, I don't know if I would be able to do that for next year even if he did want to.

by **Bwanna** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:57 am

sportsguy138 wrote:I actually did tell NH in a PM that if he wanted to, he could try to teach me the formulas for me to make the rankings, I never got a response though. With this season pretty much being done however, I don't know if I would be able to do that for next year even if he did want to.

I PM'ed him a couple of weeks ago about making the process more of a community affair. Here's his response, which I don't think he would mind me sharing...

Bwanna wrote:I wanted to throw something out for consideration, just to see if you were interested. I'm assuming you're using some tools like Excel, or whatever to calculate these grades? Would you be willing to put your stuff on an interactive web site so that you and others you selected could help with the data collection/input? I.e., the web site would handle the calculations, displaying the grades for all the data entered. It would also have an administrative-type interface so that others could help with the input of the data.

Anyway, just thought I'd throw it out there to see what you thought.
NHsportsfan wrote:Sorry for the delayed response. I like the idea of moving things to a web site but it would probably be a pretty complicated transition. Right now the main calculations are being done by queries in a 38 MB Access database, mixed in with hitting calculations for my own leagues. It's backed up by two other databases that I use to calculate park factors and age factors. I use Excel primarily to pull stats from the web (ESPN and MLB). The transition would be enough work that I don't see myself wanting to tackle it in the near future.

My concern with allowing others to input data would be the possibility of someone else's error messing things up. Might be doable if I could approve any changes at first and only give someone access to make direct changes after they had proved reliable over an extended period. Ideally, all the stats would be pulled automatically and the only manual input would be for probable pitchers. Even those could probably be pulled from a web site with proper programming and edited for mistakes as necessary.