The Endless Stats Thread

[The Chosen One]

The old saying: "You learn something new everyday".


The thread for useful/useless/random/historic/odd/weird/hot/cold stats. I've seen stat gems lost in the GDT and others, so this is the perfect place to put it just so people might've missed it or not seen it.

Note: If there's a stat about a specific game, feel free to post in that game thread after the game and in this thread.
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I'd like to start off with credit to [MENTION=118]thewupk[/MENTION] from here:

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From Fangraphs:

Here’s the simplest way to get right to the point. The Baseball-Reference Play Index allows us to search through games since 1914. Since 1914, there have been some thousands of games in which both starting pitchers allowed no more than one run. There have been 2,914 games in which both starting pitchers allowed no more than one run, while lasting at least eight innings. There have been 21 games in which both starting pitchers allowed no more than one run, while lasting at least eight innings, and recording double-digit strikeouts. There has been one game in which both starting pitchers allowed no more than one run, while lasting at least eight innings, and recording double-digit strikeouts, without a single walk. Alex Wood and Jose Fernandez combined to do that which had never been done.


So yeah it sucks that we lost but last night was just awesome pitching on both sides.

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[The Chosen One]

Through the first 22 games of the season, The Top 5 Teams with Fewest Runs Allowed:

53 - Atlanta
67 - Oakland
68 - St. Louis
70 - Milwaukee
70 - San Diego

We've allowed 14 fewer runs than the next best pitching staff.

Also, we have not had a starter give up more than 3 runs all season.

[The Chosen One]

Credit to thethe from 4/23 GDT here

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So apparently Aaron Harang is the last pitcher since PEDRO MARTINEZ to start a season with 5 straight appearances of 6+ innings and 1ER or less.

WOW!

[The Chosen One]

I loved some Mac Attack, but $17 mill vs. 400k is a big difference for our team. These numbers don't tell the whole story, but so far looks like we've done alright.

[Carp]

Macs been on a tear here recently though. Hitting almost .400 over his last 7 games. Looks like he is about to go on one of his tears.

[50PoundHead]

Can you somehow play the Lionel Richie/Diana Ross duet "Endless Stats" as background music for this thread? Oh wait, the song was "Endless Love." Never mind.

[weso1]

This is from Mark Simon of ESPN on his twitter.

This is the hard hit ball leaderboard:





And this is a list of the lowest batting average on hard hit balls:

[nsacpi]

Freeman the good and Heyward the unlucky. Thus it shall always be.

[The Chosen One]

Why can't anyone ever post cool stuff like this in the endless stats thread?

[Tapate50]

Why can't anyone ever post cool stuff like this in the endless stats thread?

Don't have the attention span for something "Endless". You can thank video games.

[weso1]

I didn't know that thread existed. Just move it over there. That's the main perk of being admin/mod.

[jpx7]

Why can't anyone ever post cool stuff like this in the endless stats thread?

I've tried.

[Tapate50]

I didn't know that thread existed. Just move it over there. That's the main perk of being admin/mod.

Don't bother, it's just a thread full of numbers and abbreviations. Pretty durn boring .

Most all of them should just say DFL after each category for Atlanta anyway.

[Enscheff]

If I'm reading this correctly, Heyward has hit the ball "hard" 26 times and has gotten a hit 15 of those times. If he wasn't soooo unlucky and hit the normal .700 on those balls, he would have 18 hits. How much better would his stats looks with 3 more hits? I'm not even going to bother....

Instead I would worry more about the fact the Heyward only has 26 "hard" hit balls in 158 ABs, for a WHAV of 0.165. How far down the first list would that number be? According to the blurb that is a below average value for a non-pitcher.

[jpx7]

How much better would his stats looks with 3 more hits? I'm not even going to bother....

I'll bother: .234/.326/.342, estimating—somewhat conservatively, given his base-running abilities—that two of those additional hits are singles, and one is a double.

[Enscheff]

I'll bother: .234/.326/.342, estimating—somewhat conservatively, given his base-running abilities—that two of those additional hits are singles, and one is a double.

OK cool, so "normal luck Heyward" should have an OPS of .668. Can we stop with the luck excuse now, and focus on the fact that he can't handle velocity on the inner half and rolls over most pitches on the outer half?

[Dalyn]

Most all of them should just say DTF after each category for Atlanta anyway.

Fixed.

[Tapate50]

I still think it's too early in the season to be making those sort of totalizing proclamations.

It is, but he scuffled like this last year.

Maybe the wind just blows in for the first few months of the year in ATL

[thewupk]

It is, but he scuffled like this last year.

Maybe the wind just blows in for the first few months of the year in ATL

he also turned it around and had a good offensive year. the only thing we have truly learned is that jason is streaky.

[Tapate50]

he also turned it around and had a good offensive year. the only thing we have truly learned is that jason is streaky.

Meh. He hit well for a while. No telling how the season would have ended either.