Yep. OBP is calculated based on plate appearances, not at-bats. Newman's hypothetical player A, with 500 at-bats and 50 walks, would have 550 plate appearances and an OBP of .364.Originally Posted by rdiersin
Yep. OBP is calculated based on plate appearances, not at-bats. Newman's hypothetical player A, with 500 at-bats and 50 walks, would have 550 plate appearances and an OBP of .364.Originally Posted by rdiersin
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Guys who see a lot of pitches tend to walk and strike out more than guys who hit the ball earlier in the count. If you think about it, it makes sense.Originally Posted by blumj
Guys who can work the count, see a lot of pitches, and avoid K's are extremely rare.
TheGARB posted an excellent article on this subject. It's about halfway down the page.
http://www.redszone.com/forums/showt...=45010&page=26
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Why do I get the feeling Adam Dunn is somehow involved in those stats?
Adam's 2005 numbers:
AB H 2B 3B HR BB AVG SLG OBP OPS
543 134 35 2 40 114 .247 .540 .387 .927
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Hmm, guess I messed that up. Well, I intented (not very successfully I might add) to make the OPS equal obviously and make one player have a higher SLG and one higher OBP to illustrate my underlying question of "how important is consistency"?Originally Posted by IslandRed
I'm admittingly fairly new to indepth baseball statistics despite being a math instructor by trade and boasting a GRE score of 800 on the quantitative. But, I can't help but wonder why consistency is not mentioned more often in baseball statistics?
In watching the Reds lead the NL in many offensive categories this season and last, I have noticed that they will score lots of runs and win some games by blowout and then score very few runs in some games. Thus, not being very consistent.
Same thing with many players. For instance, some guys will have like 6-7 total bases one game then 0-1 the next.
Does anyone measure something like Runs Created with Standard Deviations?
Since Dunn was mentioned earlier, I think this may be the problem with some "non-stat" guys with valuing Dunn. They see him have one game going 2 for 3 with a homer and a double and 2 walks and then go 0 for 4 the next night with 3 Ks. What they would like to see would be something more "dependable" to for lack of a better word.
I've always wondered about how consistency of runs impacts wins. But Pythagarus is so close almost all the time, that I'm not sure that the idea of large standard deviations really exist. In other words, I think it's one of those things that "seems" like is happening by watching, but when you go look at the numbers, it just isn't happening like we think it is. All teams have scoring binges and scoring droughts. I'm not sure it's a differentiating factor very often.
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The Reds produced one of the most consistent RS patterns in MLB in 2005. There wasn't any "blowout" effect last year. The Reds scored enough runs to win a high percentage of the time but were let down by a pitching staff they had to outscore far too consistently.Originally Posted by Newman4
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I believe I'm getting kinda hooked on this stuff lol. Where do you find statstics like that or do you have to calculate it yourself?Originally Posted by SteelSD
If all the Reds players were on the free agent market, who would command the highest contract?
Agent factor (i.e. Felipe/Boras) included or not?Originally Posted by MWM
My primary sources are ESPN.com and MLB.comOriginally Posted by Newman4
You have to play around with them some to get the hang of it (at least when you're working with Splits). I still haven't mastered it but I keep trying.
The fundamental stuff though, is pretty easy to work with.
Is anyone ever going to tell us who these players are?
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