A breakdown of my pitching thus far
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That's right, kiddies. Buckle up! It's time to enter Brian Kenney's wet dream and talk numbers.
I felt like I was giving up a TON of HRs, so I went and looked at my 5 most used starters, as well as my 5 most used bullpen pitchers to see just how many HRs I was giving up and how that compared to my WHIP and ERA. Before entering the thunderdome of statistics, I would like to state, for the sake of fairness, that since the patches the number of HRs has gone down. That being said, here is what I found.
My 5 most used starters are: Oswalt, FoF Snell, Clevinger, Corbin, and Morton. And my 5 most used relief pitchers are: Osuna, Miller, Nick Anderson, Khanle, & Kerry Wood. Combined they have a BAA of only .219 and a WHIP of 0.91. The MLB averages in these categories last year were .250 and 1.19 respectively . So it would be safe to assume that my ERA should be significantly lower than the National League average (because we don't use a DH) of 4.38. However, the ERA of those 10 pitchers is 3.98, which is definitely lower, but not as much as you'd think given that the BAA is 31 points lower and the WHIP is almost 3 tenths lower. So why is that? Well, last year the average National League pitching staff gave up 173 HRs and 1087 total hits. That is a HR% of 15.9%. However, when I looked at the percentage of base hits those 10 pitchers had given up, it came to 49/149...or a staggering 33% of hits given up. If I was just a terrible pitcher, it would make more sense. But a BAA and WHIP significantly lower than MLB averages would seem to suggest otherwise. For a group of developers that talk so much about using data to drive outcomes, this seemed strange to me.
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Well [censored], that's a good [censored] post man. That's all I got
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Nice. I remember last year there was a post from a former MLB Scout that included a ton of real life stats compared to this game and it was astonishing how bad this game represents real baseball, or tries to simulate it. My favorite part of his post was when he talked about errors committed by a real life team with 1-3 stars compared to this game with a roster full of current stars and HOF players, the numbers didn’t even come close to what happens “in real baseball”. The number of errors committed in this game is a joke, long story short.
I wish I could find that post, it had the most likes of the year too. Some of y’all might remember it. The fanboys might not want to see it though, it really proved how bad this game is.
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@SHOW_TIME_ryan said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
Nice. I remember last year there was a post from a former MLB Scout that included a ton of real life stats compared to this game and it was astonishing how bad this game represents real baseball, or tries to simulate it. My favorite part of his post was when he talked about errors committed by a real life team with 1-3 stars compared to this game with a roster full of current stars and HOF players, the numbers didn’t even come close to what happens “in real baseball”. The number of errors committed in this game is a joke, long story short.
I wish I could find that post, it had the most likes of the year too. Some of y’all might remember it. The fanboys might not want to see it though, it really proved how bad this game is.
I'd love to see that post!
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@xIAmJumpMan23x said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
@SHOW_TIME_ryan said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
Nice. I remember last year there was a post from a former MLB Scout that included a ton of real life stats compared to this game and it was astonishing how bad this game represents real baseball, or tries to simulate it. My favorite part of his post was when he talked about errors committed by a real life team with 1-3 stars compared to this game with a roster full of current stars and HOF players, the numbers didn’t even come close to what happens “in real baseball”. The number of errors committed in this game is a joke, long story short.
I wish I could find that post, it had the most likes of the year too. Some of y’all might remember it. The fanboys might not want to see it though, it really proved how bad this game is.
I'd love to see that post!
It was good man, I’ve tried looking for it but it seems to have disappeared. I remember the guys name....La-hoo-sa-herr...lol cool name. He threw his game in the trash, no joke, because of the shady gameplay compared to what it should be like if it wants to represent real baseball. The guy knew his stuff and made this game look like the joke it is. Best part was the fanboys who defend this game seemed to have ran away because they had nothing to say in post, it was great.
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@xIAmJumpMan23x said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
@SHOW_TIME_ryan said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
Nice. I remember last year there was a post from a former MLB Scout that included a ton of real life stats compared to this game and it was astonishing how bad this game represents real baseball, or tries to simulate it. My favorite part of his post was when he talked about errors committed by a real life team with 1-3 stars compared to this game with a roster full of current stars and HOF players, the numbers didn’t even come close to what happens “in real baseball”. The number of errors committed in this game is a joke, long story short.
I wish I could find that post, it had the most likes of the year too. Some of y’all might remember it. The fanboys might not want to see it though, it really proved how bad this game is.
I'd love to see that post!
Well I found the link but it’s gone, probably got deleted when they switched over to this new forum.
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@SHOW_TIME_ryan said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
@SHOW_TIME_ryan said in A breakdown of my pitching thus far:
Nice. I remember last year there was a post from a former MLB Scout that included a ton of real life stats compared to this game and it was astonishing how bad this game represents real baseball, or tries to simulate it. My favorite part of his post was when he talked about errors committed by a real life team with 1-3 stars compared to this game with a roster full of current stars and HOF players, the numbers didn’t even come close to what happens “in real baseball”. The number of errors committed in this game is a joke, long story short.
I wish I could find that post, it had the most likes of the year too. Some of y’all might remember it. The fanboys might not want to see it though, it really proved how bad this game is.
I'd love to see that post!
Well I found the link but it’s gone, probably got deleted when they switched over to this new forum.
Well that's a freakin bummer. Thanks for looking though!
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