Broken Bat - Announcements: Power Index

Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date

#85049	10/12/2021 10:09:48 am	Apr 21st, 2052
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9777 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: 9777 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: 89 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: 9777 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: 9777 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: 71 Asheville Aces 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: 5023 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: 9777 Haverhill Halflings Legends	I think it might be a Friday thing.