Comments on: Team W/L in games with 5 or fewer hits, 2007 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/280 This and that about baseball stats. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:57:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andy http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/280/comment-page-1#comment-639 Andy Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:58:27 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/280#comment-639 Yeah---I have wanted to similar searches, Sky. The problem, of course, is that with the PI (as of now) it's possibly to search only on the pitching side or the batting side, when really we'd want to be able to do the difference between the two. Something else I'd love to be able to do is have a pitcher-vs-pitcher log, i.e. how a pitcher has done in games grouped by the opposing starting pitcher. That way, we could could look up some interesting things, such as: Julian Tavarez has stated a bunch of games for Boston last year and this year. My instinct tells me that he pitches a lot better when the opposing starting pitcher is better. I don't know if his focus, or my imagination. We could also look up all the games when Hall-of-Famers have squared off. Yeah---I have wanted to similar searches, Sky. The problem, of course, is that with the PI (as of now) it's possibly to search only on the pitching side or the batting side, when really we'd want to be able to do the difference between the two.

Something else I'd love to be able to do is have a pitcher-vs-pitcher log, i.e. how a pitcher has done in games grouped by the opposing starting pitcher. That way, we could could look up some interesting things, such as:

Julian Tavarez has stated a bunch of games for Boston last year and this year. My instinct tells me that he pitches a lot better when the opposing starting pitcher is better. I don't know if his focus, or my imagination.

We could also look up all the games when Hall-of-Famers have squared off.

]]> By: Sky http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/280/comment-page-1#comment-638 Sky Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:40:14 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/280#comment-638 The teams that win with five or fewer hits should be the teams that walk a lot and have excellent pitching (San Diego). The teams without many losses with five or fewer hits are the teams that tend to hit well (like the Mets and not like the Diamondbacks). I don't think it's possible with PI, but it'd be interesting to know how often teams win when being out-hit, out-walked, out-homered, out-total-based, etc. I think I remember reading a while ago that the team with the most total-bases plus walks wins an absurd amount of the time (which makes sense). The teams that win with five or fewer hits should be the teams that walk a lot and have excellent pitching (San Diego). The teams without many losses with five or fewer hits are the teams that tend to hit well (like the Mets and not like the Diamondbacks).

I don't think it's possible with PI, but it'd be interesting to know how often teams win when being out-hit, out-walked, out-homered, out-total-based, etc. I think I remember reading a while ago that the team with the most total-bases plus walks wins an absurd amount of the time (which makes sense).

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