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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. Wink
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I would imagine there are more swinging K's on balls in the dirt that a lot of people would think. There might be 3-4 per ballgame. The catchers are so good a digging them out a lot of hitters are tagged in the box so quickly it almost looks like they caught it clean.

I'd also bet that a pitcher with a 5 run lead is working in a faster rythym than one in a tied or 1 run ballgame especially with a runner on base.
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Originally posted by luv baseball:
I would imagine there are more swinging K's on balls in the dirt that a lot of people would think. There might be 3-4 per ballgame. The catchers are so good a digging them out a lot of hitters are tagged in the box so quickly it almost looks like they caught it clean.

I'd also bet that a pitcher with a 5 run lead is working in a faster rythym than one in a tied or 1 run ballgame especially with a runner on base.


Those are the kinds of questions that as far as I know, no one has any data to support an answer one way or the other. But they’re great questions!

Today was the 1st game I’ve scored with the computer recording the times. As luck would have it, Santana threw a no-no, and that’s the data I have. Wink Unfortunately, I have nothing set up to interrogate that data, so it’ll be a bit before I can have the box spit something out. It should be a good test case.
FWIW, here’s a sample report from today’s game. I still need to make it get the times when the batters hit the 1st pitch, and for when they put the ball in play, but this is pretty much representative of what’s going on.

This was the game where Santana threw the nono, so you can get some idea about what was going on considering no one got a hit.


http://www.infosports.com/scor...per/images/real3.pdf

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