Posted by tecwrg on 3/2/2015 7:47:00 PM (view original):
Posted by bad_luck on 3/2/2015 7:16:00 PM (view original):
There's absolutely a correlation between more outs and less runs.
But that isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about different kinds of outs.
If you look at the 2400+ team seasons since 1920, there is absolutely zero correlation between the amount of runs a team scores and the amount of times the team strikes out.
I ran the numbers this morning just to be sure.
The coefficient of OBP to R is 0.80. For strikeouts, the number is 0.06.
Since 1920.
Brilliant.
So you're mixing data from all sorts of different eras (pre-integration, WW2, post-integration, 5 different sets of expansion, mid-60's pitching era, the DH era, the steroid era, and the post-steroid era, etc.), and not getting a correlation.
Brilliant.
Why would that matter? The correlations for OBP and SLG and (to a lesser dgree) BA still hold true for the entire time. Why would K's be different?
And anyway, tell me what year you think K's would start correlating to runs and I'll run the numbers again.