OT. Statistical formulas

by kmacsm on Feb 17, 2009 9:55 PM EST

so, I didn't make my school's baseball team, but the coach has heard me talk about baseball and has read my articles in the school paper and he is "impressed with my love and knowledge of the game" so he wants me to take stats and give him reports about the players using most of the basic stats in the game. he says he wants everything.

well, I'm a little shaky on most of the formula's so does anybody know where i can find on the internet how to do that stuff.

i don't need anything like vorp or win shares. but i do need stuff like OBP and ERA and stuff like that.

so any links or if any of ya'll know them off the top of your head thats also good.

i admit to my noob-ness in not knowing these things like any respectable baseball fan should but i need some help.

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you should do k per 9 and k/bb too

should be pretty easy to compute

by Freneau on Feb 17, 2009 9:57 PM EST reply actions

OBP

OBP – On-Base Percentage (Hits+BB+HBP)/(AB+BB+SF+HBP)

by Freneau on Feb 17, 2009 10:00 PM EST reply actions

baseball-reference has fairly straightforward glossaries for stats

http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/pitch_glossary.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/bat_glossary.shtml

by Freneau on Feb 17, 2009 10:01 PM EST reply actions

beat me to it

Good call.

by stlfan on Feb 17, 2009 10:38 PM EST up reply actions

This article might be a rough so feel free to ask questions

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/the_book_high_school_edition/

It is a basic evaluation of of the average number of runs score in each situation. Probably the best look at high school baseball, but very heavy

by Jeff Zimmerman on Feb 18, 2009 10:58 AM EST reply actions

For amateur baseball

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by JayhawkTom on Feb 19, 2009 1:19 PM EST reply actions

stupid fingers

for amateur baseball, maybe runs created would be useful for the coaching staff. Just a thought….

Jayhawk baseball - a tradition since Steve Jeltz

by JayhawkTom on Feb 19, 2009 1:21 PM EST up reply actions

I dunno

if you mean the James version, I don’t think so. It’s problematic enough for MLB, but high school is a very different run environment, so it might really misrepresent who’s good.

If you’re willing to get into BaseRuns — that’s a dynamic run estimator that can apply to any sort of baseball-type game to give you the proper weights of events, whether it’s MLB or an Israeli softball league. Might be a bit think, though.

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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 19, 2009 1:26 PM EST up reply actions