New possibilities scoring games

I’ve got my program working fairly well, to the point where I’m starting to sneak in a few things I’ve always thought about but never been able to track because of the amount of time it would take to do them. What I do is score a ML game every day to test what I’ve worked since the last game I scored. And I’m really seeing some interesting things. I don’t know what practical use they’ll be, but they’re very interesting to see once you become aware of them.

The 1st one I did was BID, or balls in dirt. I keep track of both balls and strikes in the dirt for all the pitchers. I never really thought much about the sheer number of BIDs, because I know there are times when the object is to throw the ball low on purpose. But I never thought for a minute that the numbers would be what I’m seeing, at least from ML pitchers. It seems to be one of those things you see but never really think about a lot.

One that I turned on yesterday was seconds between pitches. Nothing fancy. I just let the computer compute the time between pitches, So far there’s just too little information available to come to many conclusions, but I’m wondering if there might be some way to use that to measure stress and/or exhaustion.

All in all, this project has really turned into an eye-opening experience.