Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Getting Your Money's Worth: The Resulting Laughter

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Notes:
Projected Value Over Contract = (Projected Value - Contract)
Projected Value = 2009 Performance to date extrapolated through the end of the season.

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Notes:
44.7% of all payroll tied up in Jose Guillen, Gill Meche, Coco Crisp, and Kyle Farnsworth.


For reference, please refer to the brilliant research and analysis by JWF:

Getting Your Money's Worth Part I: The Setup
Getting Your Money's Worth Part II: The Punchline

3 comments:

  1. The aliasing in the second is driving me crazy. I think I'll have to do that one by hand.

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  2. Updated both charts for clarity.

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  3. Maybe I'm not understanding this right but this chart is showing the VOC of each player right? So if you added up all the values on the chart you are saying you should end up with $63M in the hole? Just looking at the graph it doesn't appear that is possible.

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