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I’m guessing all 49,261 regular subscribers to this blog are sick of estimated pitcher runs allowed.
So let’s (start to) look at estimated batter runs produced!
Baseball Reference and Fan Graphs make such...
Okay, not breaking news, but still pretty remarkable….
Only another reminder that we aren’t watching the same game that was major league baseball from essentially 1920 to 1990.
I’m shamefully behind in stocking the data library!
So today I’ve added the Retrosheet BIP dataset. It consists of every AL/NL pitcher’s ball-in-play data, derived from Retrosheet, along with other performance...
Having eventually tunneled over to BIP-ERA (what I’m calling the measure for balls-in-play runs allowed per game) by descending down the infamous “batting average for balls in play” (BABIP) rabbit hole,...
It’s kind of embarrassing to re-cover ground previously examined but the previous examining occurred with a much less advanced instrument for measuring the impact of pitchers’ “ball in play” (BIP) propensities....
Held off as long as I could on a “list.” Here’s top 50 all-time “ball in play” runs saved list as determined with the super-juiced multilevel model that is featured in latest...