Friday, February 16, 2007

Statistical categories

Yahoo FBB is now open and we can finally see the statistical categories available.

Statistical Categories:

Batting Games Played;
Games Started;
Batting Average (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Slugging Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
On-Base Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
On-base + Slugging Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Fielding Percentage (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
At Bats;
Runs Scored;
Hits;
Singles;
Doubles;
Triples;
Home Runs;
Runs Batted In;
Sacrifice Hits;
Sacrifice Flys;
Stolen Bases;
Caught Stealing;
Walks;
Intentional Walks;
Strikeouts;
Ground Into Double Play;
Total Bases;
Putouts;
Assists;
Errors
Pitching Pitching Appearances;
Games Started;
Earned Run Average (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
WHIP Ratio (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Strikeouts per Nine Innings (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Strikeout to Walk Ratio (Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Only);
Wins;
Losses;
Complete Games;
Shutouts;
Saves;
Outs;
Hits;
Total Batters Faced;
Runs;
Earned Runs;
Home Runs;
Walks;
Intentional Walks;
Hit Batters;
Strikeouts;
Wild Pitches;
Balks;
Stolen Bases Allowed;
Batters Grounded Into Double Plays;
Save Chances;
Holds;
Total Bases Allowed;
Innings Pitched


I've highlighted the most common and most appealing. This is me, not the Commish. Final decision making rests in the hands of the Commish. Commish has given me permission (I think) to engage in this discussion, so please contribute and let's see if we can sway her ;)

My personal opinion follows:

I've highlighted to common but quickly becoming controversial stats: Batting Average and Wins.

Both are now considered (by the statistical world) to be poor indicators of performance. Wins is pretty obvious. It's a team stat and the pitcher has only so much control over the outcome of the game. He still needs the offense to score runs for him. W-L records are considered poor determinants of a pitcher's performance.

Batting Average is not as bad, but it doesn't capture a hitter's true capability. For that, I'd prefer something like OBP or OPS. OBP is Hits+Walks - basically the number of times a batter gets on base.

Any thoughts? Too much new mumbo jumbo?

1 comment:

dave said...

If we are just choosing one (or OBP, AVE, or OPS), I would prefer OPS - it is the best indicator of a player's offensive performance.

(team: madison greene)