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Originally Posted by spectra
lol i could have sworn posting here already writing all of the discrepancies in this
well you have to consider
infield singles, stretching doubles, flyballs to groundballs, stealing home, get home on wild pitch from second, inside the park home runs, how far hrs go, times caught stealing, pitcher/catcher combination that stolen base happened with, total bases doesn't help because if the guy is walked and brought home, thats 4 bases that is added which damage the total
there are a lot more problems
Hanley Ramirez is probably #1.......................
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Unfortunately there isn't that kind of info available. MLB.com's play-by-play application has great info on pitching, and NBA.com has great shot info, but there could easily be more hitting info in baseball, especially cause it's such a stat-crazy sport.
Brought home by what though, 3 walks behind him? Total bases is actually only a stat that counts bases from hits, being walked home simply counts as a run scored for that player, on top of the one BB he received from the walk.
EDIT: Thinking about it now, walks have nothing to do speed, they're simply a result of plate discipline. It might be a good idea to totally ignore them in this stat. Thanks for making me think of it.
EDIT NUMBER TWO: Never mind, I remember why I put in walks. You can't steal a base if you aren't walked, so that's where they come in.
Another part of this though is that you guys can take some players stats and do the calculations yourself, anything helps. I'd love to see Hanley's rating.
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Originally Posted by k90dah
u wanna make this stat accurate basicaly, i wud imagine u wud need the times that everyone runs from home to first n there homeruns, n stolen bases, n basicaly add them together and divide by 3 n divide that by the highest sum , for example, highest in current season is
3 seconds home to first 55 homers, and 60 stolen bases= 118, and soriano say is 40, 40 n 4 seconds
so do 118/84 n the decimal is the number it makese sense i think
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Good try, but you're trying to quantify things that aren't on the same planes of statistics. Times can't be added to quantities of homers and stolen bases, the 3 seconds is worth a lot more than 3 homers or 3 stolen bases, that's the problem with doing that.
I can understand using the highest quantity in the current season for comparative purposes, but if you've done chem or physics or even business calculations, you need to have an agreement between what you're adding/subtracting and what you're multiplying/dividing. That equation just doesn't have that.