Methodology:

For this, given the various aspects at play here, I started by taking all the players from the salary sheets provided by WIS and removed all players except those from 1975-2000. I put each the hitters and pitchers into their own sheet within a workbook. I then had a sheet for each teams hitting and pitching where I copy/pasted the rosters from the league. I had two additional sheets that, using a script, pulled the players for each team from the salary sheet data so that I had their # stats, secondary fielding, etc... I then went through all the players and replaced their fielding ratings with actual FLD/RF for each position. For each team I summed up their team stats for hitting, pitching and fielding. For fielding I summed up by position. For hitting I weighed only a teams top 5000 PA by OPS#, for pitching only a teams top 1250 IP by ERC#. For fielding, I weighed by 600 PA/POS, and for positions that did not have 600 PA, I used my best guess to gauge the mot likely OOP option and used their OOP FLD/RF stats for the team fielding there. I also ID'd all AAA players and re-normalized them to 2024 to get # numbers for them to include them accurately in the above calculations. [Added: I did not add in any of the AAA players as without trades I could not see them. Also, with real names, the normalizing would not be needed. So the calculation is only on the drafted roster.]

From there, I created a RC estimate for the hitting, with a RC adjustment for the fielding using zubinsums values for errors and +/- plays. I used jfranco's formula for pitching RC, to create a similar value for pitching to put all three onto the same metric. From there, I just added a teams fielding and pitching RC together and ran the hitting and the pitching+fielding into a pythag to generate the predictions. Obviously, the goal here is to manage these teams into more than what we are presented with, so hopefully this serves as a baseline for gauging a managers success

Document for anyone who wants to check it out or error check me: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_x-BZ0uTtqv1I1TfsY4WoHTv8evOUeIbSPfhTMXfRso/edit?usp=sharing

National League East:

Beavis & Butthead Do Whatifsports	0.653	106	56
Festering Piles of Putresence	0.548	89	73
No rain delays under the dome	0.409	66	96
GPs Gift of no Nething	0.544	88	74

National League Central:

Ask Me About My Beanie Baby Collection	0.571	93	69
NJ Turd Burglars	0.472	77	85
Expertise in Sucky P Shines Finally	0.384	62	100
Hitless in Seattle	0.327	53	109

National League West:

The Genie's Lamp	0.550	89	73
Ugly and Worse	0.485	79	83
Kingdon Schadenfraude	0.483	78	84
Hope Your Team Sucks 1975-2000	0.367	59	103

American League East:

You Can Unscrew A Lightbulb	0.591	96	66
Bad to the Bone	0.523	85	77
Winning Optional	0.452	73	89
Pride of the Shortbus	0.389	63	99

American League Central:

The. Cuckolds	0.699	113	49
ROUSTABOUTS Take My Team Please	0.602	97	65
Nebbish Homeboys	0.518	84	78
Free Popsicles	0.455	74	88

American League West:

Unintended Consequences	0.583	95	67
Bargain Basement Braves	0.545	88	74
I Love Lamp	0.475	77	85
The Mighty Cobra	0.376	61	101

Playoffs:

NL:

Ask Me About My Beanie Baby Collection

Beavis & Butthead Do Whatifsports

Festering Piles of Putresence

The Genie's Lamp

I think this will come down to Beanie Baby Collection and Beavis & Butthead... AAA players and fatigue will have the most impact and in short series, Pedro will be more important, so I think Beavis ends up representing the NL.


AL:

The. Cuckolds

ROUSTABOUTS Take My Team Please

You Can Unscrew A Lightbulb

Unintended Consequences

The Cuckolds won't have much fatigue to deal with, which I think will help them hold out in the AL. And ultimately take the title.

Awards:
NL:
MVP:
Frank Thomas - The Genie's Lamp

CYA:
Pedro Martinez - Beavis & Butthead do WHATifSPORTS

AL:
MVP:
Larry Walker - You Can Unscrew a Lightbulb

CYA:
Pedro Martinez - Nebbish Homeboys

Final Notes:

Fatigue, Ballparks, OOP players, and AAA are all going to have bigger impacts than I was able to account for above. I did my best to account for each as best I could in these calculations, but I didn't have much time to spend on this overall and couldn't add in full park effects, player by player fatigue calculators, etc... and I still can't see AAA unless they've appeared in a game, and that's alot of clicking through to individual players and their details in the draft center...

So, there could be some very large swings from these predictions, that said, I did my best to take this serious and use a methodology that might produce some fascinating and as accurate as possible results.

Interesting Observations:

Best Offenses:

You Can Unscrew A Lightbulb

Beavis & Butthead Do Whatifsports

The Genie's Lamp

These three teams will likely all score more than 1,000 runs.

Worst Offenses:

Hope Your Team Sucks 1975-2000

Expertise in Sucky P Shines Finally

Hitless in Seattle

These teams may struggle to score 300 runs.

Best Pitching (without regard for defense):

ROUSTABOUTS Take My Team Please

GPs Gift of no Nething

The. Cuckolds

These teams all have a shot, if it weren't for their defenses, of allowing fewer than 700 runs... however, defense will come into play, so...

Best Pitching (with regard to defense):

ROUSTABOUTS Take My Team Please

The. Cuckolds

Expertise in Sucky P Shines Finally

These teams should still allow less than 800 runs.

Best Defenses:

ROUSTABOUTS Take My Team Please

Kingdon Schadenfraude

Expertise in Sucky P Shines Finally

Worst Defense:

The Mighty Cobra

Ask Me About My Beanie Baby Collection

The Genie's Lamp

These defenses alone could cost their teams more than 300 runs each

Most Frequently Used Player Seasons:
Hitters:

1981	Ainge	Danny	8
1985	Wright	George	6
1975	Sundberg	Jim	6
1987	Biancalana	Buddy	5
1981	Dejesus	Ivan	5
1981	Tyson	Mike	4
1988	Ripken	Billy	4
1976	Blair	Paul	4
1976	Garcia	Pedro	3
1989	Huson	Jeff	3
1981	Cabell	Enos	3
1991	Deer	Rob	3
1989	Shelby	John	3
1981	Spencer	Jim	3
1991	Galarraga	Andres	3

Pitchers:

2000	Lima	Jose	0	7
1981	Waits	Rick	0	6
1980	Lamp	Dennis	0	5
1996	Van Poppel	Todd	0	5
1999	Kile	Darryl	0	5
1994	Deshaies	Jim	0	5
1994	Brown	Kevin	0	4
1980	Torrez	Mike	0	4
1986	Mahler	Rick	0	4
1994	Belcher	Tim	0	4
1999	Bohanon	Brian	0	4
1994	Fleming	Dave	0	4
1996	Abbott	Jim	0	4
1994	Williams	Brian	0	3
1996	Ritz	Kevin	0	3
1998	Hernandez	Livan	0	3
1999	Hawkins	LaTroy	0	3
1995	Moore	Mike	0	3

Players with multiple individual seasons used:

1996	Bones	Ricky
1995	Bones	Ricky

1983	Brooks	Hubie
1991	Brooks	Hubie
1982	Brooks	Hubie

1993	Brunansky	Tom
1988	Brunansky	Tom

1975	Burroughs	Jeff
1979	Burroughs	Jeff

1978	Champion	Mike
1977	Champion	Mike

1992	Cochrane	Dave
1989	Cochrane	Dave

2000	Daal	Omar
1997	Daal	Omar

1990	Eckersley	Dennis
1989	Eckersley	Dennis
1994	Erickson	Scott
1996	Erickson	Scott
1993	Erickson	Scott

1982	Flynn	Doug
1979	Flynn	Doug

1991	Galarraga	Andres
1993	Galarraga	Andres

1977	Harrelson	Bud
1975	Harrelson	Bud

1997	Hill	Glenallen
1999	Hill	Glenallen

1991	Hundley	Todd
1992	Hundley	Todd

1988	Johnson	Lance
1994	Johnson	Lance

1982	Keough	Matt
1979	Keough	Matt

1982	Kingman	Dave
1983	Kingman	Dave

1984	Krueger	Bill
1995	Krueger	Bill

1999	Lewis	Darren
1995	Lewis	Darren
1994	Lewis	Darren

1986	Mahler	Rick
1985	Mahler	Rick

1980	Manning	Rick
1978	Manning	Rick

1999	Martinez	Pedro
2000	Martinez	Pedro

1992	McRae	Brian
1999	McRae	Brian

1978	Meyer	Dan
1975	Meyer	Dan

1995	Moore	Mike
1987	Moore	Mike

1980	Moseby	Lloyd
1982	Moseby	Lloyd

1998	Navarro	Jaime
1997	Navarro	Jaime

1983	O'Brien	Pete
1992	O'Brien	Pete

1989	Quinones	Rey
1986	Quinones	Rey

1983	Rose	Pete
1979	Rose	Pete

1989	Shelby	John
1991	Shelby	John
1990	Shelby	John

1994	Sierra	Ruben
1993	Sierra	Ruben
1995	Sierra	Ruben

1985	Tabler	Pat
1989	Tabler	Pat
1982	Tabler	Pat

1989	Thomas	Andres
1988	Thomas	Andres

1980	Torrez	Mike
1983	Torrez	Mike
1985	Trillo	Manny
1975	Trillo	Manny

1996	Van Poppel	Todd
1994	Van Poppel	Todd

1982	Viola	Frank
1983	Viola	Frank

1994	Williams	Brian
1996	Williams	Brian

1986	Witt	Bobby
1999	Witt	Bobby
1996	Witt	Bobby

1998	Wright	Jamey
1997	Wright	Jamey

I like a good challenge, but being predicted to have the worst record may be more than I can overcome! At least the team I made is predicted to be pretty bad, too.

I’m disappointed to see the team I built projected to make the playoffs. Should have skimped on innings maybe.

ton of work here. Thanks just4me. We'll see how this works out.