The value of stats and integrity?

by Scott Fennessy

I read one of the league opening articles recently and would have written this article earlier but my full time job is really busy so I am just now getting around to this. The part of the article stated looking for honest managers. I admittedly laughed and said “how do you cheat in APBA?” Well I have to tell you I had an interesting moment. When I had started unpacking my Christmas stuff to set up in my new apartment I had a folder tucked into my ornament box and thought “that’s odd” so I opened it up and found a ton of score sheets and my missing stats from my 1901 replay.

I had started the final compilation of the stats, and started packing for the move to the new apartment and somehow that’s where I put it. I did have what I thought were complete stats, except for runs scored, and my computer had died as well during the move, so I had finished my compilations on paper but never did a spreadsheet and tallied everything up. I did my 01 review which is available in this site, and numbers wise only a couple of things were changed, and that would be Jay Hughes of the Dodgers ERA being overinflated because I had incorrectly added the innings pitched (his dropped about 4 points to a much more realistic 3.20 from an over 8 era for a B starter) Jack Taylor’s inning pitched total seems very high but nothing that really does anything as his ERA seems right. Roger Bresnahan’s HR total dropped from 5 to 3 (important because he only had an 0-2 0-2 0-1) and of course not having tracked enough info besides the basics. I am not stupid, but not overly strong with math skills, so I didn’t know how to set up the spreadsheet to calculate the stuff.

Thanks to a trip to the Delphi forums to request help for setting my 05 spreadsheets Dom in NY came through with a good template (I recently rearranged the columns after dropping the stuff used for league play which I am not presently involved with) so I took about 2 weeks painstakingly entering the stats for the 01 season and some interesting things were brought into focus for me. While my NL MVP/Cy Young winners and my AL MVP choices were good ones (in face Lajoie’s MVP season was almost superhuman in the fact he led the AL in almost every category and was listed in all but walks drawn.

However I believe I seriously made a wrong decision on the CY Young winner for the AL, and this is where I have some question about if this is the “honest” thing to do. I will post Cy Youngs numbers and Calvin Griffith’s numbers and want to give the community a chance to put their thoughts into this. Do I leave this alone and let Young keep the award, or do I give Griffith the award, or looking at the numbers did I get this right: