Broken Bat - Announcements: Power Index

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date

#84996	10/09/2021 2:46:29 pm	Apr 11th, 2052
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 5029 Administrator	Power Index, a weighted average of your players’ skill index (SI), has now been added to the game. It’s a rough gauge of your big league team quality. It’s not necessarily an accurate measure of team strength though. Unlike the version in Hardwood, this power index seems to lack a meaningful dynamic range, so I’m considering some tweaks.

#84997	10/09/2021 2:46:54 pm	Apr 11th, 2052
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 5029 Administrator	Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas to make it better... Thanks, Steve

#85001	10/09/2021 3:39:02 pm	Apr 11th, 2052
TeamCanadaGM Joined: 06/10/2021 Posts: 6 Inactive	Nice addition to the game, what is the power index formula? All big league player's SI divided by number on roster, or is that a weighted factor for starting pitchers and those players on the starting lineups vs LHP and RHP

#85004	10/09/2021 5:16:17 pm	Apr 13th, 2052
sadman Joined: 07/13/2015 Posts: 61 New Britain Hitchhikers V.13	Where can I find my team power index?

#85006	10/09/2021 5:38:34 pm	Apr 14th, 2052
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 5029 Administrator	Look on your team page or the rankings... Steve

#85009	10/09/2021 7:47:01 pm	Apr 14th, 2052
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2812 Novi Doubledays IV.8	This is a nice addition. Any rough idea for where the break points would be between a great team, a good team, an average team, etc?

#85016	10/10/2021 2:22:54 pm	Apr 14th, 2052
Gunnar Joined: 01/05/2020 Posts: 170 Inactive	I just figured it out and the average power index is 102.13. Also I can only find my power index on the rankings page I can not find it on my club page.

#85017	10/10/2021 2:38:40 pm	Apr 14th, 2052
Ken_Kennilworth Joined: 11/26/2019 Posts: 422 Charleston Hawks II.2	Power Index also appears on the game scoresheet for both teams... re: feedback -- i am not sure what good it is other than to grade the team. How can it help with managing a franchise? Doesn't the win loss record and ranking provide similar grading? Is there any material available that explains in detail how the calculation works and how we can recalculate/verify the computation? Updated Sunday, October 10 2021 @ 2:46:19 pm PDT

#85022	10/10/2021 9:03:46 pm	Apr 18th, 2052
g10rsh Joined: 02/05/2016 Posts: 170 Champaign Suzumebachi IV.1	top ten leagues by current power ranking League AVERAGE of Power Legends 106.5416667 III.2 106.075 II.2 105.8833333 III.3 105.5166667 IV.4 105.225 IV.1 104.85 IV.3 104.4666667 IV.7 104.3416667 III.1 104.275 V.4 104.0416667 weakest 3 leagues VI.6 98.725 VI.3 97.30833333 VI.27 94.15833333

#85023	10/10/2021 9:12:45 pm	Apr 18th, 2052
g10rsh Joined: 02/05/2016 Posts: 170 Champaign Suzumebachi IV.1	pretty interesting how close each league is in average. Div III seems to be slightly higher than II as well. Legends 106.5416667 III 104.8166667 II 104.6458333 IV 104.2479167 V 103.0947917 VI 100.4888021

#85025	10/10/2021 10:22:09 pm	Apr 18th, 2052
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 5029 Administrator	So power index is just a weighted average of top players on a team. Since most of the big league players are in the SI range of 90 to 115, the average power index is pretty much in the middle of that range. Steve

#85029	10/11/2021 5:30:33 am	Apr 18th, 2052
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2812 Novi Doubledays IV.8	So, it looks like Novi comes around average. I'd love to be average these days. Updated Monday, October 11 2021 @ 5:31:00 am PDT

#85037	10/11/2021 1:14:38 pm	Apr 18th, 2052
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9807 Haverhill Halflings Legends	My apologies for helping to drag II.1 out of the top ten with our 101.5 Power Index (PI), but in our defense we are in 1st place right now :p Not that I expect that to last past Tuesday...

#85038	10/11/2021 1:20:12 pm	Apr 18th, 2052
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9807 Haverhill Halflings Legends	One side effect of PI is that you can easily see teams that aren't complying with the competitiveness clause. I hope Steve is reaching out to those folks to ask questions. Sub 50 is pretty ridiculous.

#85045	10/12/2021 4:56:37 am	Apr 21st, 2052
atomic Joined: 12/05/2012 Posts: 90 Sunnyvale Rebels III.3	League AVERAGE of Power Legends 106.5416667 III.2 106.075 II.2 105.8833333 I knew somehow that I'm in the toughest league right after Legends! What's even more interesting is that the best team according to this Power Index, Weymouth Town Prowlers, got relegated from my III.2 just last season. Updated Tuesday, October 12 2021 @ 5:02:01 am PDT

#85049	10/12/2021 10:09:48 am	Apr 21st, 2052
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9807 Haverhill Halflings Legends	I'm not sure PI is really a measure toughness. More a measure of draft luck. Teams with more luck will have higher SI totals (and thus higher PI), but toughness is more about how your competitors use their players than just having the players on the team. SI totals (even weighted) are never going to be a perfect measure of team strength. Team composition, lineup synergies, platoon usage, bullpen strategy, management settings; there are a lot of factors in team strength. But never mind all that foolishness I just spouted. I encourage everyone to consider Haverhill to be no threat, and plan around other competition instead I'm super impressed there is a LL-III team below 100. It will be interesting to see how well they fare this season. (Not counting Saco since it was a total rebuild but they do have a winning record in II.1 so far). BTW, II.1 is dragged down by the two tear down (HurDerp temper tantrum) teams in addition to Haverhill, if folks are wondering why the PI for II.1 was so low.

#85050	10/12/2021 10:16:02 am	Apr 21st, 2052
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9807 Haverhill Halflings Legends	Another interesting tidbit, despite an overpowering PI in III.2, Steve's team is ranked almost as low as Haverhill... Coincidence, or is Steve hiding his true strength :p

#85054	10/12/2021 2:51:11 pm	Apr 22nd, 2052
atomic Joined: 12/05/2012 Posts: 90 Sunnyvale Rebels III.3	I know it's not really showing toughness, but it's also not showing draft luck. It's just about SI and this can be very misleading. It should be more about how the skill points are distributed. Which combination is more perfect according to match engine? I have at least 3 questionable guys on my roster which have very nice looking SI but in the end they suck at bat... https://brokenbat.org/player/238899 https://brokenbat.org/player/256527 https://brokenbat.org/player/251462

#85055	10/12/2021 2:54:46 pm	Apr 22nd, 2052
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9807 Haverhill Halflings Legends	I think it is weighted, but you make a good point. I've cut POT 14s off my team that I didn't feel had any value. Surely has lowered my PI, but I would assert has raised my teams toughness

#85121	10/15/2021 6:25:06 pm	May 6th, 2052
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9807 Haverhill Halflings Legends	Dang, we're down to 99.4 today. Guess that's what happens when you swap in rookies for Cup games.

#86142	01/01/2022 3:31:04 am	May 6th, 2053
Jimmy W Joined: 05/01/2020 Posts: 243 Inactive	Happy New Year guys! Here’s hoping that you and yours have a fab and healthy 2022 Steve is there a way to work out the.basics/formula of the ‘power index’ please? As I’ve tried. Couple of ways and don’t quite ‘get it’? Unless of course that’s by design in which case no worries, I’ll stop wracking my brain - lol! Many thanks for a great distraction from the daily toil and long May BB continue! Cheers Jim 😎 Updated Saturday, January 1 2022 @ 3:32:17 am PST

#86147	01/02/2022 9:05:52 am	May 10th, 2053
lmartins6746 Joined: 06/01/2021 Posts: 78 Asheville Craft Brewers IV.6	Seems to just be the average SI of your big league roster.

#86828	02/17/2022 9:16:55 am	Nov 2nd, 2053
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 5029 Administrator	It's a weighted average of the big league players. There are two components - players and pitchers which are added together. Each group is ranked in descending order of SI and multiplied by the following weighting: Pitchers = 1st-3rd 1.0, 4th-5th 0.8, 6th-7th 0.6, 8th-9th 0.4, 10th-11th 0.2 Players = 1st-5th 1.0, 6th-10th .67, 11th-15th 0.33. Then the sum is divided by 17 (the sum of all the weighting) -- normalizing the result to the standard SI scale. Steve

#86893	02/20/2022 6:48:28 am	Jan 13th, 2054
Jerbeetwo Joined: 06/30/2019 Posts: 337 Tyler Goldendoodles IV.3	@Steve How often does the Power Index get updated? Does it get updated with each team’s player transactions as long as that transaction affects the rating?

#86913	02/21/2022 1:48:39 pm	Jan 13th, 2054
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9807 Haverhill Halflings Legends	I think it might be a Friday thing.