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Create a new pitching stat category; total walks allowed + total hits allowed (NOT whip)

I have been a Yahoo! user/fantasy participant since the year 2000. I play fantasy baseball, basketball, hockey, NCAA march madness, and football with you. I have never left yahoo! for any other fantasy sports site. I have a simple request of you and am very hopeful you are able to grant it asap, prior to the 2017 fantasy baseball season.

My long-standing head-to-head league is moving away from ERA/WHIP. We want to steer clear of ratio/percentage stat categories.

Therefore, I am asking that you add a new stat category for pitching which combines walks allowed and hits allowed.

On this Yahoo link (https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN6800.html), we see that you currently provide both HITS and WALKS as two individual stat categories for users to choose from. All of my league members and I are asking that you create one that combines the two; it can be called WALKS + HITS (regarding the TOTAL number of walks and hits a pitcher allows in his outing). We are aware of the WHIP category and that's not what we prefer to use. Again, we are trying to steer clear of a ratio/percentage and are hopeful to move forward to whole numbers...in this case a combination of two stats as one category.

Please consider implementing this for this upcoming fantasy baseball season. If this is indeed granted, it would return our league to a 5x5 category league which is what we are hopeful for. We are trying to avoid the ratios/percentages while also avoiding a total of 11 categories which is what we are currently at. If you are able to add this option for us, we can get it back to 5x5 while using the other 9 categories (along with the proposed total WALKS allowed + total HITS allowed) which we are proposing.

I am going to ask my league-mates to post in support of this and also ask the rest of the community/forum to help us by voting 3 votes and posting positive feedback for our proposal. We are really looking forward to having this as an option for this season.

Thanks, Yahoo!, for your time and consideration. This is really important to us. Much appreciated.

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  • EDWARD STACK commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In pitching Holds & losses , and hitting extra base hits, walks Walks of all of these must be added, stupid not to add them. Same with Holds.for pitchers.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Jesus, if this is rated #1 no wonder we are still waiting for them to let us drag and drop our drafted players to the position we want them in. Who thought this stupidity up? And #1?

  • Kirk Horsman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think the same band of fools has voted this to the top. We might as well have the categories "Doubles by virtue of the fielder losing the ball in the sun", "singles by virtue of the fielder losing the ball in the lights", "batters reaching on dropped third strikes", "batters reaching on catcher interference","baserunners' bases gained on defensive indifference". Seriously, why do you need another category to manage your league? Are you trying to avoid someone gaining an advantage in ratio stats by drafting only relievers? Put in a minimum innings pitched requirement. Trying to prevent someone streaming SP to pick up Ks? Add a maximum weekly transaction limit (and season limit for that matter). Ratio stats are huge in baseball, they have been since the game started, they will be there forever. ERA is probably the best stat that exists for pitchers. Wins and losses are meaningless; they are a team stat. If you amassed 30 wins and win all your games 10-8, does that make you a good pitcher? No, your team bailed you out. If you lose 20 games with an ERA of 1.50, are you a bad pitcher? No, your team's offense stinks. I just want to understand why you think there is a need for this imaginary stat category. And Yahoo, please allow me to vote thrice against ideas that I think deserve no consideration at all. This is eerily reminiscent of NHL fan all-star voting John Scott the the 2016 Game or the 2007 Vote for Rory campaign. If I could understand why, maybe I could go along. I just don't see the point.

  • Dwhizz Z commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This might be the dumbest idea I have ever seen suggested. How in the world is it ranked 1?

  • Gerard Lebar Jr. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why not just add walks and hits? And have a 6 x 6 league? Is five not an arbritrary number? No offense but your request almost seems like you want to take the thinking/challenge out of the game? Which I suppose is never a good reason to do for something that is intended to be thought about and challenging -- otherwise, why not simulate the experience? Baseball is a game of ratios (era, batting average, etc.), unlike fantasy football. Anyway, this request was months ago, I'm curious if yahoo relented.

  • nuthin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I may be missing something but you want yahoo to invent a stat that will have an outcome exactly the same as WHIP.
    there are better suggestions..

  • RC commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Dee,
    At least you got your topic to #1. Yahoo probably hopes that's enough of a win that you'll forget about your actual request just like they have.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    not sure how it hurts any other fantasy user...if they don't want to use it, then they simply do not use it. hahah...the IQ of some people...i tell ya

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    hank; you, my friend, are a tool. is this really how you choose to utilize your time? leave the guy alone. it's no harm to anyone. if yahoo doesn't like the suggestion, they'll deny it. looks like there's plenty of support, though. all of them vs 1 goon (YOU). have a great day trolling online suggestion websites LMAO...yikes...sad life

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    nothing better to do with your redneck, life today, Hank? f off. go bang your sister BetsyLu

  • hank commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Let me get this straight... you want a combined category of overall walks + hits ...even though those categories already exist individually, and even the the MLB does not recognize this combination of stats without any context ie WHIP. OBPA.. etc, but you want the combined category added for all yahoo fantasy users because why? Because your league thinks it might be neat? You sir are a Grade-A MORON!!!!

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