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The Cadillac Edition Software
Patton $ Online is Windows software that helps you prepare for your roto draft. It includes an excellent list manager that lets you adjust projections by changing target prices or AB or IP, AVG, ERA or Ratio. You can read Patton's pitch for the Cadillac here.
The package also includes bid prices for 2010 in roto 5x5 (Rotoman), roto 4x4 Mike Fenger), and Alex Patton's bid prices for mixed 15-team 5x5.
The package also includes Rotoman's 2010 projections, about which you can read more at The Book's blog about The Forecaster's Challenge. (In the official rules the Rotoman projections finished fifth of 23 projection systems, under the rules to be adopted in 2010 they finished third, and in the head to head evaluation the result was second division.
To order the Cadillac Edition Software from Paypal for $30.
On the PayPal confirmation page, CLICK the Return to Peter Kreutzer button to access your software.The software is Windows software. and will run on any Windows installation--except 64 bit Vista. It should run on 64 bit Windows 7 in XP compatibility mode. It runs great on a Mac with Boot Camp, Parallels or Fusion, and should work just fine on an Intel Mac with Wine.
The Chevrolet Edition Excel and Text Files
You get all the data, sorted alphabetically and by position in the text files, and none of the excellent list management software, updated at the same time the software is.To order the Chevrolet Edition Excel and Text files from Paypal for $15.
Update schedule (whenever you have a draft, you should have fresh prices and projections):
2009 Evaluator--February 10 (out now)
Patton and Co. Bid Prices--February 15 (out now at pattonandco.com)
2010 Patton $ Online (with full projections and prices--March 1
Update No. 1--March 11
Update No. 2--March 18
Update No. 3--March 25
Update No. 4--April 1 (no joke!)
Final Update--April 8
Write to Alex or Peter with any questions, suggestions, complaints, ideas. And don't forget to visit Patton and Co. the discussion board and the blog for preseason fun.
To download the free 2009 Evaluator, to kick some tires, click here.
Click a link to download a sample Excel Worksheet or Pitchers and Hitters Text file for free.
Here's Alex on what you can do right now with the 2009 Evaluator:
"The quick, easy, and fun thing to do with the Evaluator is to run various sorts -- by team, by position, by AL-only or NL-only or mixed -- and find out what players earned in 2009 in 4x4 and 5x5 leagues. Sorting by position is especially useful in getting a handle on position scarcity, looking ahead.
The not-so quick but reasonably easy and really fun thing to do is enter the draft rosters of the teams in your league last year. Once you've done this -- which takes about 20 minutes -- you can see the hypothetical final standings (standings if there were no changes after the draft), and compare these to the actual final standing to see which teams helped themselves the most, or shot themselves most seriously in the foot, after the draft. You also can see the "profit" or "loss" of each player that was drafted."