Here are some things that stuck out to me that maybe could be useful to those who actually still believe anything I say:
- It appears that for every RC/27 you are over the average at that position, you can afford to have a negative 2.5 ZR. Look at it as for every 0.1 RC/27 you can basically be 0.25 under on ZR in order to grade out as average.
- Likewise, going the other direction, for every RC/27 your player is under compared to the position average, you need to have a positive 2.5 ZR in order to make up for that, or a .25 over for every 0.1 RC/27 you are under.
- Keep in mind these are one season averages and clearly will vary from one season to the next. For instance if Joe Bradshaw drops off next season to the average catcher output of 4.7 RC/27, he would be sitting around the production of the league average catcher.
- If Mario Guerrer could field at first base, he would actually be ranked as the 12th best first baseman in the league rather than second to last.
- Dong-Po Thum would have to drop his production by more than half at third base in order for Alex Ramirez to even be within 10 runs created from him.
- Despite being the second-best right fielder in terms of RC/27, Pedro Huerta dropped down out of the top 10 because of his defense, while Antonio Cordero who has the best defensive ZR in right field finds himself in the top 4, despite an RC/27 of 4.8, 2.33 less than the league average in RF.
- Tu-Fu Yong was one of the key guys that made me evaluate this entire thing. I have been playing him at SS, and I was curious just how bad he could be there to have it make sense with his bat. He is currently at an RC/27 of 6.4 which is higher than the position average of 5.132 by 1.268. Based on my math, I should be able to play him there as long as his ZR is around negative 3 ZR and his ZR sits at 3.5 in the study which is backed up by his output of -2.33 net runs created compared to the average SS. He is literally average there. He has 29.17 offensive runs produced with a negative 31.5. The math checks out nicely.