New BCB User Statistic: KOWZR
by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 1:14 PM CDT
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PrintI herby present the Kommentor Zone Rating System for the statistical evaluation of commentors on BCB.
at first blush this stat should be defined as:
[(REC's)+ (DAVR-BLOU)+(SWLs)] / (P+C)
REC's = # of rec's received on posts or comments
DAVR = number of replies to your post/comments
BLOU = number of replies calling you a major ass/requesting you pound sand
SWLs = funny or timely pictures posted
P= # of posts made
C= # of comments made
There should also be some accomodation for comments or stances that are heckled at the time but turn out to be so way correct that you are considered forever awesome (ie: all The Riot and Hoffpauir official athletic supporters).
Possibly including extra points if you start a running gag that sticks- not sure on that abbreviation yet.
Of course there should be a plus/minus system in place to determine our value over replacement level (cubs.com message board comments?) and the Zones could be defined as
- newbie
- occasional poster
- highly flammable
- serial posters
- I truly have no life outside of BCB
All in all I think this will at least be as valuable to conversation as discussing defensive statistics. Please feel free to heap your praise in the comments below.
Al, if you need help implementing this I can lend some programming help so we can add this to our user pages.
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of SB Nation or Al Yellon, managing editor (unless it's a FanPost posted by Al). FanPost opinions are valued expressions of opinion by passionate and knowledgeable baseball fans.
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Well, let me just say...
…that I’m honored to be immortalized in this fashion. Please note that I believe you need at least 1,000 comments to eliminate any errors or misjudgments under the KOWZR system. I can’t wait until Fangraphs picks this up.
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
I'd say you need at least 25,000....
… or it’d be a small sample size.
:-)
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
And I feel hurt
not to be immortalized.
Perhaps my own stat for number of seconds it takes me to respond to any Maddux reference.
"I daydream just like everybody else, I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention."- Greg Maddux
by Doggie Stalker on May 13, 2009 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
if it makes u feel better
i am not immortalized either, but I did send him back to the drawing board
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
Neither was I, but any group that includes daver, SWL and BLou is of
highly questionable makings. Anyone that would want to part of that crew needs his head examined.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on May 13, 2009 5:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Need I remind you of whom you are speaking sir!
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on May 13, 2009 6:04 PM CDT up reply actions
thanks I tried really
hard to be objective and yet leave room for people who only thought the idea was really great.
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions
What do people like me do?
When we think its only the best idea to ever be thought up? KOWZR > Theory of Relativity.
"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living."
you start the Church of KOWZR
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
well the aKOWZR
will take into account the now obsolete theory of relativity, KOWZR, and also gluons
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Baselines need to be established
so to make sure we know when posters are experiencing career years – this way they won’t be counted on to continue their same output, even when their fingers are slower because of age.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
*because of age, injury, etc.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
also
replying to your own comment should effectively negate your comment
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
good call
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
How does that affect mambodaverdrew et al?
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury.
Bradley watch -- out 8 games of 32
they are traded
and then they are reaquired
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
its not a perfect system
yet
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm fine, thank you
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on May 13, 2009 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
It can only make us stronger.
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
one of us
ONE OF US
"I don’t really play baseball, I feel it." -- Milton Bradley
by drewishdrewid on May 13, 2009 5:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Gouble Gobble.
Want to drink from that Loving Cup.
( told you I went to see FREAKS on Monday. Needed something for the off day)
"I daydream just like everybody else, I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention."- Greg Maddux
by Doggie Stalker on May 13, 2009 5:20 PM CDT up reply actions
seems fair.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. - Ryne Sandberg
it would be terrible
if I pulled a ligament in my finger typing a reply.
Drive, Monkey Drive!
by VegasCubFan on May 13, 2009 11:36 PM CDT up reply actions
You're not paid to reply!
You should stick to the role you were hired for!
"Aramis Ramirez, with the guys I've ever played with in my career, is as clutch a hitter as I've seen. He smells it." -Ryan Dempster
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on May 13, 2009 2:16 PM CDT reply actions
...in its frickin' eyes.
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
that you can see thru its mouth
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
my two cents
newbie
occasional poster
highly flammable
serial posters
I truly have no life outside of BCB
that could be configured by taking your number of posts, divide by the amount of days you have been signed up (hey, if you signed up and didnt post for 5 years, that just makes you a 38 year old BCB Rookie). then you have to add a twist to it, in order to get the complete f/x by subtracting the amount of spelling errors, comments where you are posting Unicorns while talking to yourself, or where you are sandbagging (making three posts in a row with one word in each post). You then take that number and multiply by Pi and add the average total wins over the past three years that the Cubs have had, and subtract the average loses as well.
Any running theme (gag, nickname, etc) are all awarded based on how often it is used. If it is used in gamethreads often, then it awards you 5 yellow stars. If it is not used often, you get between 4 and -5 stars for iit. If it really flops, and no one likes it, you lose 5 stars.
This should leave each of us with some number that is much larger than it is important, meaning we all can look much better than the evil BCB posters.
If you post something that has been posted twice in the last two days (ahem, not searching before posting) or if you get booed so much you have to remove your FanPost/FanShot, then you are exiled to the opposing teams game thread for the next series (our version of being sent to AAA).
Of course, being Clutche eliminates you from all importance of the thread.
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
by Cubbie-Tim on May 13, 2009 2:48 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
you are correct
I made a dreadful mistake in leaving out pi and upon further review the constant e…
also the lack of Unicorn horn length adjustment and effect each post/comment has on a cubs victory that day (erin andrews/denise richards et al) need to be included.
I must immediatly begin my work on creating the new and improved adjusted KOWZR-
to of course be abbreviated: aKOWZR
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions
well, I am glad I was able to assist
does that allow me any special points in aKOWZR?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
pi was traded to Baltimore
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
and e was the PTBNL
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions
but didnt we lose e
later as part of the Rule V draft?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
that was
Pi # 20, I am talking about Pi # 3.14 which is much more productive. When projecting the Adjusted aKOMZR of Pi, you really are hoping for the lower number, since that is the ability to properly understand what a strike zone is.
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
with my formulations
or the last line
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
It should be next to your name
KOWZR: 52 Highly Flammable
"Check the magic of a winning season and there are always reasons beyond the talent." Ned Colleti
by wrigleyrocker12 on May 13, 2009 3:36 PM CDT reply actions
Ohh!! He flubs the article!
Everyone is safe!
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
Ron Santo: "OH NOES! OH NOES!"
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury.
Bradley watch -- out 8 games of 32
Unless it's intentional
Since “for the win” is often internet speak, and so is “teh,” he could merely have combined two internet lingos.
Unfortunately for him, I am the official BCB scorer.
And I call it an E. He can file a protest with Al.
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
And I will!
Dear Commissioner Al:
daver is a jerkface.
Thanks for your attention to this matter.
znohitter
God, I miss this board. Stupid work schedule.
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury.
Bradley watch -- out 8 games of 32
Are you going to play the rest of this FanPost under protest?
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on May 13, 2009 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions
No.
I’m going to play it under an umbrella. It’s raining in Des Moines.
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury.
Bradley watch -- out 8 games of 32
who is the BCBPA Union Rep (BCB Posters Association)
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
Clutche
but we’re staging a revolution.
"I don’t really play baseball, I feel it." -- Milton Bradley
by drewishdrewid on May 13, 2009 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions
LMAO
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
Clutche never did tell me why
and I asked kindly
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
That was your mistake
Clutche only respond to snarky requests .
"I daydream just like everybody else, I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention."- Greg Maddux
by Doggie Stalker on May 13, 2009 5:31 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
A rebuttal:
You, sir, can pound sand.
Sincerely,
Cool Hand.
Before each game, please remember to feed the bats.
maybe that dude from the evil BCB
will write in to protest the protest in order to preserve zsnohitter
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions
I think Daver was posting at znohitter' head
He posted at his f’in head! He posted at his f’in head!
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on May 13, 2009 4:12 PM CDT up reply actions
since teh article
in question made a double boink sound the play stands
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions
but the head
is his livelihood
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
He stared at the teh too long
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on May 13, 2009 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
the teh
or teh the
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
I dunno
I’m too bug-eyed to tell the difference . . . .
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on May 13, 2009 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions
riding a bike without goggles again?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
Win
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on May 15, 2009 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions
*makes neck slashing motion*
Judd Sirott is responsible for EVERYONE'S injury.
Bradley watch -- out 8 games of 32
I think we should strive for a classless BCB community
"It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies." - Mike Royko
classless pretty much sums it up
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 4:03 PM CDT up reply actions
or like school on thanksgiving?
Definitive Answers to Impossible Questions What baseball team did A. Lincoln support?
by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
can we have classes
just no teachers, only subs allowed?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
Mr.Scales
can i get a hall pass?
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Why don't you call me sometime when you...have no class.
I've committed to tweeting about the Cubs for the rest of the season. (Does that sound as ridiculous as I think it does?) Anyway, if you're on Twitter, you can follow me here.
Why thank you Mr. Melon.
"Hats for bats.....keep bats warm." - Pedro Cerrano
"Hey bartender, Jobu needs a refill !!!!!!!" - Eddie Harris
by willie mays hayes' gloves on May 13, 2009 5:42 PM CDT up reply actions
triple lindey anyone?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
Peavy
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on May 13, 2009 4:07 PM CDT reply actions
Watch the Language...
or I will report you to Al
I haz blurg: hotbeans.wordpress.com
by digitalbenjamin on May 13, 2009 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions
I tihink it is important that you
listen to everyones ideas on how to adjust and make it better, but throw them all out and change nothing, while telling us that you made numerous changes
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
brilliant
hey has anyone seen cwyers lately?
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by Andre Fonseca on May 13, 2009 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions
I think he's babysitting Farney
I haz blurg: hotbeans.wordpress.com
by digitalbenjamin on May 13, 2009 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions
is he throwing the baby out with the water?
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
hot water burn baby!
Drive, Monkey Drive!
by VegasCubFan on May 13, 2009 11:38 PM CDT up reply actions
cold water
make baby go something something
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
No TV no beer make Homer something something...
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman
by hip2bsquare on May 14, 2009 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions
This post is under review.
I’ll dither for at least four weeks about it, then hire Bud Selig to hold a press conference about it, harrumph at least 7.5 times, and then not make a decision.
"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
will you probe it Al
so Macha doesnt cry about it
baseball is a game of outs......pop out, ground out, line out, pitch out, strike out, fly out, and Fox and Bud's favorite black out
now theres a bad mental picture
shudders
"That's what you live for. You live for the opportunity and when that day comes, you better be ready," Soto said. "I tried to make sure that whenever they gave me a chance, I was ready and I knew I had to take advantage of the opportunity."
by Madison Cub Fan on May 14, 2009 1:05 PM CDT up reply actions
twss
"Do you want a bunch of duds walking around with their shoulders slumped and having no emotions, no feelings?" Bradley said. "I don’t think the fans want that. I think they want a guy who’s going to get into the game and feel a little bit. I’ve always said, ‘I don’t really play baseball, I feel it.’ "
What's the over/under
as to how many times Selig will put his hand to his ear and say he can’t hear the question?
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
by tucsoncubsfan on May 14, 2009 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Is that Selig
or Bill Gates?
Linus: Life is rarely all one way, Charlie Brown. You win some, you lose some. Charlie Brown: Really? Gee, that'd be neat.
by CyberCyclist on May 17, 2009 8:56 AM CDT up reply actions
The sad thing is I really want this implemented
Funny the way it is, how a kid walks ten miles to school while another is dropping out
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