Baseball Advanced Stats Explained (Sort Of): Pitching/Defense
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Advanced stats continue to take over baseball, so let's take a look at the most common advanced stats across baseball to get a better understanding of what they are and how to use them. This is part two where we will talk about advanced pitching and defensive stats.
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Hey man your batting stats video from yesterday was amazing! I learned so much. It should serve as valuable foundational knowledge for my deeper dive into advanced stats! Can't wait to watch this one later. Keep it up!
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Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
i dont....really agree with how you are portraying some of these stats. it feels like you dont quite understand what the stats job is? no stat is all encompassing and not every stat is meant to show the full picture or even how good a pitcher is.
whip: whip is a useful stat because it(especially combined with other stats) is a good general metric to know how clean the pitcher is keeping the diamond. once you know what an average whip is its a great at a glance stat to help determine how well a pitcher is doing. if you see a pitcher with a sub 1 whip, you can pretty much say hes doing some elite level pitching. same with a whip over 1.5 or so for being bad. and again when you combine this stat with others like fip and babip you can start to see how often the pitcher is putting himself in bad situations.
per 9 stats: yes, is k% and bb% probably a slightly better stat than k/9 and bb/9. its not by a super wide margin and by looking at other stats both get the job done. /9 is just good standardization so you can look at lots of guys easily. looking at whip and babip can tell you if a pitchers k/9 is sus. if a pitchers whip is low and he has 10k/9, you can guarantee that pitcher is throwing nasty stuff at an elite level.
era: uhhh you know era stands for earned run average not earned runs allowed? also over a full season errors and oddities just arnt accounting for that much. era is a fine stat in looking at pitchers from the same era. era+ is even a decent stat to help look at pitchers from different eras normalized for their run environments. obviously siera and fip are better stats but era is ok. if your in casual company not too many people will know what siera means so its easier to just use era. also
babip: this one feel like you acutally have no idea what the stat is for. babip is designed to show how lucky/unlucky someone is getting along with how good the defense behind them is. this isnt a stat to show you how good a pitcher is. a weak grounder getting through the infield is what this stat is designed for. if a pitchers babip is drastically higher than league average you can all but guarantee that the pitcher either has a terrible defense behind him or is experiencing bad luck or both. good pitchers tend to have slightly better babip than league average and bad pitchers tend to have slightly worse babip than league average. its a great stat to combine with others to tell a full picture.
siera: i would suggest reading a little more on siera. siera does not account for 'hard hit' fly balls or 'weak' grounders. it weights those stats based on the rate the pitcher gets those outcomes. a pitcher with a high fly ball rate gives up less homeruns per fly ball vs someone with a lower fly ball rate. same goes for grounders. a pitcher who gets more grounders gets more ground outs per grounder than a pitcher with lower ground ball rates. the more you do of something the better it tends to be. it also weighs that ground balls end up being hits a lot more often than fly balls. so yes it takes into account the type of contact, but not if its good or bad contact. a groundball pitcher isnt going to have a better siera than a flyball pitcher just because they get more grounders. siera also tries to accounts for a lot more than just this. such as 'when' things happen, like walking a batter is better when first is open vs when you have a runner already on first.