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.
3/2/2015 7:47 PM (edited)