Well, sure it's silly -- in the long haul. But in any particular week, not so silly. There's more to a PS than a W or ERA.

A PS with a high K / low BB count can overcome a couple ERs. An inning w/o K's is +3 pts. Less with BB's. An inning w/ 3 K's and 0 BB's is +6 pts. A couple of the latter innings more than makes up for a +5 W or an ER.

But of course, in general, the lower the ERA the better. I'd rather have a pitcher's duel and lose 2-1 with a lot of K's than win 2-1 with no K's -- in fact, the first scenario could result in more points overall.

That's my only point. We're not really disagreeing as much as you think...