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February 24, 1999  Rotisserie Turns  Put the Laptop Away  by
Keith Law  The start of spring training sets off many rituals
for the serious roto player, one of which is the rush to create
player valuations. While some fervently favor creating elaborate
spreadsheets to assign values based on predicted stats, many
rely instead on hand calculations or even intuition and
experience. Today, I'll look at the arguments against using a
quantitative valuation system; next week, I'll cover the
arguments in favor of it.  Reason 1: They're time-consuming.
Any spreadsheet takes time to build, but fantasy valuation
spreadsheets are particularly complex due to the recursive
nature of valuation. To build a reasonably accurate valuation
scheme, you have to determine the top N players (where N is the
number of players per roto team times the number of