Diagnostics for Leadoff Hitters II Topic

MikeT23
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nuke, are you willing to wager on that?
2/20/2008 6:49 PM
MikeT23
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I guess I should have asked him to put his money on his beliefs about 60 pages ago.
2/20/2008 6:52 PM
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So your argument is that teams that strikeout less do score more runs?
2/20/2008 6:52 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By MikeT23 on 2/20/2008
nuke, are you willing to wager on that?
2/20/2008 6:53 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By MikeT23 on 2/20/2008
Here's an exercise for you this year.
Look at the boxscores every day. Keep up on the runs scored by teams that strikeout 14+ times in a game(more than half their outs).
Let me know how many RPG they average. I'm willing to wager that it's less than the league average.
That wouldn't show anything. There will be lots of games where teams strikeout very few times and still don't score many runs.
2/20/2008 6:54 PM
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And to answer your question...no, it's stupid and pointless.
2/20/2008 6:55 PM
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so answer my question:
So your argument is that teams that strikeout less do score more runs?
2/20/2008 6:56 PM
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It would show plenty. It would show that striking out half the time in a game doesn't produce runs.
Conversely, striking out a few times per game will produce varied results.
Would you like to wager?
14+ strikeout games RPG vs. league average
2/20/2008 6:56 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By _nuke_ on 2/20/2008
And to answer your question...no, you're right. Teams that make half their outs on whiffs won't score many runs. I'd just as soon keep my money.


Thought so.
2/20/2008 6:57 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By _nuke_ on 2/20/2008
so answer my question:
Your argument is that teams that strikeout less do score more runs?
2/20/2008 6:57 PM
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That would be interesting to see... a chart with # of strikeouts vs. runs scored for the last 20 years and another chart for the 1920-1950 time frame.
ROB TRACY!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!?!?!
2/20/2008 6:59 PM
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We're not talking about HBD anymore, are we?
2/20/2008 7:00 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By _nuke_ on 2/20/2008
so Mike, you're going to ignore my quesion now?
your argument is that teams that strikeout less do score more runs?
2/20/2008 7:01 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted By MikeT23 on 2/20/2008

Quote: Originally Posted By _nuke_ on 2/20/2008

And to answer your question...no, you're right. Teams that make half their outs on whiffs won't score many runs. I'd just as soon keep my money.



Thought so.



Fine, I'll bet, but you do the work. But not just 14+ K's per game. For everygame, chart # of K's and # of runs. I'm comfortable betting that you won't find any trend correlating high k's to low runs.
2/20/2008 7:05 PM
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My guess is that there WILL be a relationship for K's vs. Runs when the # of strikeouts gets higher than, say, two standard deviations above the norm (which would be about 1/6 of the games).
If a pitcher is "on" enough to strikeout eight or more hitters (or a team is "off" enough to whiff eight or more times), it will have a negative impact on the runs.
2/20/2008 7:05 PM
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