Pitcher eligibility

[SaintsOfTheDiamond]

How do you determine whether a pitcher qualifies as a SP, RP, or both? I'm trying to do pitcher projections and -- I may be wrong -- but wouldn't figuring "total" cats like K, H, BB, etc be skewed if you calculate with RP and SP together? Is it determined by IP? BTW it's for Yahoo leagues if that makes a difference.

[Tavish]

If you use Yahoo's eligibilty requirements it is:

"Pitchers need to make three starts to become eligible as a starter and five relief appearances to qualify as a reliever."

[SaintsOfTheDiamond]

So for SP just using players with more than ~3 starts should be OK for SP data? My spreadsheet doesn't have relief appearances. So would taking players with more than ~40 appearances be good enough for RP data? Or am I making all of this way too complicated?

[Amazinz]

So for SP just using players with more than ~3 starts should be OK for SP data? My spreadsheet doesn't have relief appearances. So would taking players with more than ~40 appearances be good enough for RP data? Or am I making all of this way too complicated?

Games pitched minus games started will give you the number of relief appearances.

[SaintsOfTheDiamond]

So for SP just using players with more than ~3 starts should be OK for SP data? My spreadsheet doesn't have relief appearances. So would taking players with more than ~40 appearances be good enough for RP data? Or am I making all of this way too complicated?

Games pitched minus games started will give you the number of relief appearances.

I think I need to quit school, it's frying my brain.