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August 14, 2009While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email in the sidebar.
Pour out some Great Lakes: “When he first came over, we kind of dubbed Cliff Lee the 1a to Cole’s No. 1 status in the rotation. No more. Cliff is this team’s beast […] Mr. Lee is the kind of guy you don’t only expect to pitch well every time out, you also expect a win. MLBCoz points out that Since the All-Star Break, Cliff Lee is 5-0 with a 1.32 ERA in 5 starts with 3 complete games. The man is ours.” [Enrico/The 700 Level]
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With that said… “The Indians have lost 64 games so far on the season. The histogram below displays in what inning the Indians have given up the eventual game winning run in those 64 losses. Not surprisingly to anyone who has watched the team this season, we have a lot of losses late in the game – 20 of our 64 losses have come in the 8th inning or later.”[Lets Go Tribe]
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Perhaps this is our excuse? “On his Physics of Baseball website, Alan Nathan recently studied home run park effects using data from both Hit f/x and HitTracker. Some of the goodies include how difficult it is to hit a home run at each stadium, using Speed off Bat as a measure of difficulty, and the distribution of “carry” at selected stadiums. Cleveland turns out to be among the worst stadiums for home run hitting across the board, hence the (somewhat joking) title of this post.” [Dan Novick/Hardball Times]
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Will Rod Hood help improve this? “It’s always difficult to assign 100 percent of the blame for a particular stat to a given player, so we can’t say that it was entirely[Brandon] McDonald’s fault. Certainly, the Browns’ safety play wasn’t great last year, and an improved pass rush (the Browns ranked 30th in the league with 18 sacks and a 4.5% Adjusted Sack Rate, our stat which adjusts sack totals for passes thrown and the quality of the opposing offensive line) would’ve prevented him from spending too long in coverage. But it’s fair to say that McDonald deserves a good chunk of the blame.” [Football Outsiders via Dawgs By Nature]
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And finally, one of the best things about pro football coming back? Fan headgear! [Legend of Cecilio Guante]
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11 Comments
Why worry when David Fluff is clocking in at 82mph on the radar while being compared to Cliff Lee.
LOL @ “Rod Hood”
Only about 180 days until the equipment truck leaves for Arizona.
Looking at that loss histogram, it’s pretty flat (i.e. uniform distribution). If you consider 10 innings (as the graph does), then the expected number of losses from 64 is 19.2.
Statistics Fail
The Dolans, bestowing more pennant-race gifts upon the rest of the major leagues …
Wow, just when I thought I was done grieving for a lost organization, I see those Lee stats and up comes the bile again … must learn to let go …
Eh gang? PHYSICSSSSS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qErh402eJgI
*Tear*…Cliff come back.
So what your saying is that if we had a proper bullpen and won let’s say 10 out of those 20 games. We’d be a game away from leading the division… and we wouldn’t have half our team away…
Swig,
We shouldn’t expect game-winning runs to be evenly distributed across all 9 innings since the Indians will score some runs, thus pushing the distribution of game-winners (since game-winning = Indians runs + 1) toward the end of the game. (Note that this will increase the expectation past 19.2, i.e. you are probably more correct.)
Also, runs aren’t necessarily evenly distributed. If your best reliever is your closer, you’ll push runs out of the ninth inning, or whatever depending on your players. Nothing comes to mind statistically to look at this situation, except that maybe the Indians could be compared to other teams to look at the distributions of game-winning runs and compare them?
So I don’t know, except that the initial way of looking at it doesn’t seem to be correct.
Just get rid of Wedge.
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