If MLB plays a shortened season in 2020 (82 games? 50 games?) and WIS normalizes the stats to 162 games, it would seem that there could be some very significant statistical seasons added into the pool. Anyone want to guess who will top the charts?

I was going to post something just like this. Could be some abnormal and extreme results over a shortened season that could make for some very interesting SIM seasons.

If Bob Milacki had his 3 starts from 1988 in a 50 game season, he'd be an 84 inning monster.

Something similar to '94 and '95 perhaps. I don't think it will be all the rave. These hitters are too good at getting themselves out. Pitching wise we might see a deGrom or Verlander put up a .80whip that will be great. Someone might put a great couple of months together.

They might not play at all this season, unless I missed an announcement today.

Posted by DoctorKz on 6/5/2020 5:19:00 PM (view original):
They might not play at all this season, unless I missed an announcement today.

No announcement, just WIS-centric speculation.

If a guy pitches 8 1/3 innings in a 50 game season, that would make it to the 25 inning minimum.
Imagine if the last game of the season a guy makes his major league debut and throws a perfect game!

i think they have to pitch 25 real life innings to be eligible for WIS, even in a shorter season

If that's the case it could eliminate some killer small-sample relief seasons, or a rookie debuting "late" in the year.

yes, it has always been 50 actual ab and 25 actual IP to be eligible for WIS

If they really do play only 50 or so games, very few relievers would qualify at all.

Imagine the possibilities of 19 shoemaker and 19 manaea (58 combined ip at 0.87 and 0.77 whip, respectively) extrapolated to 188 combined innings!

Also over 50 games the league wide sample should be pretty consistent with 2019 but individuals could be outliers so the normalizations could get nuts. Imagine a guy hitting .375-.400 while the league guys like .240 again. The power numbers will get normalized down again but what if someone hits 20+ jacks? I just hope the outliers are complete randoms like 2018 Luke voit.