OttoinGrotto
2023-24 Iggy Award Most 3 Pointers Made
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Saw this gem on SI, assessing the CY Young races:
2. Chris Sale, LHP, White Sox (5)
Season Stats: 6-9, 2.81 ERA 1.02 WHIP, 10.0 K/9, 4.73 K/BB, 7.1 IP/GS, 2 CG, 1 SHO, 155 ERA+
Last Three Weeks: 1-2, 2.91 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 11.6 K/9, 4.67 K/BB, 7.2 IP/GS
When Max Scherzer lost his first game earlier this month, I devised a quickie formula to determine how many losses he should have had to that point in the season. With the average American League team scoring 4.38 runs per game, I assigned a loss for every game in which he allowed five or more runs. Then I added a loss for every game in which he fell a combination of two runs or innings shy of a bare minimum quality start (6 IP, 3 ER), effectively adding all starts of four innings or less and starts in which he allowed four runs in five innings. According to that formula, Scherzer should have had three losses before he suffered his first actual loss to the Rangers on July 13. Here's how many losses the 6-9 Chris Sale should have by the same method: two.
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20130725/cy-young-awards-watch/#ixzz2a5RR0J5A
Look, when you hand out an award for performance, you can't come up with some crazy formula about what should have happened, and assess what should have happened and award that over what did happen.
Know why? BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
:bang::bang::bang::bang::bang:
2. Chris Sale, LHP, White Sox (5)
Season Stats: 6-9, 2.81 ERA 1.02 WHIP, 10.0 K/9, 4.73 K/BB, 7.1 IP/GS, 2 CG, 1 SHO, 155 ERA+
Last Three Weeks: 1-2, 2.91 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 11.6 K/9, 4.67 K/BB, 7.2 IP/GS
When Max Scherzer lost his first game earlier this month, I devised a quickie formula to determine how many losses he should have had to that point in the season. With the average American League team scoring 4.38 runs per game, I assigned a loss for every game in which he allowed five or more runs. Then I added a loss for every game in which he fell a combination of two runs or innings shy of a bare minimum quality start (6 IP, 3 ER), effectively adding all starts of four innings or less and starts in which he allowed four runs in five innings. According to that formula, Scherzer should have had three losses before he suffered his first actual loss to the Rangers on July 13. Here's how many losses the 6-9 Chris Sale should have by the same method: two.
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20130725/cy-young-awards-watch/#ixzz2a5RR0J5A
Look, when you hand out an award for performance, you can't come up with some crazy formula about what should have happened, and assess what should have happened and award that over what did happen.
Know why? BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
:bang::bang::bang::bang::bang:
