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You do a much better job explaining what I was trying to represent about the relevance of lineup construction to performance. I tried to make a similar argument a few months back and also found myself struggling to represent "geometry" of rosters, either statistically or linquistically:
http://thesportinghippeaux.blogspot.com/2011/02/reading-dan-rosenheck-an...
I really appreciate the thoughtful, aphoristic work being done here.