A bunch of Sox
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Friday, April 08, 2005
More for you ravenous sports fans!
The clamor is clamorous. "Fever Pitch" should have it so good. (BTW, I do NOT want a DVD of Fever Pitch next Christmas, unless it's the English one. Do some people never grow up? Do Jimmy "The Dink" Fallon and his associates think it is actually funny to make the joke "He's washing your father's balls" and then replay it over and over in commercials? It wasn't funny the first time. It was adolescent.) (Are we cranky today?)
The OOPA is newly constructed to measure the player's ability to take advantage of the situational opportunity presented when he is at the plate. It is renamed OOPO for Offensive Output Per Opportunity, tentatively, though I like OA for offensive average. It's maximum score is a 1.000 like the BA. It's calculated by the total bases advanced by the batter and the runners DIVIDED BY the potential bases. Thus a grand slam is the same as a solo homer at 10/10 or 4/4. They both took maximum advantage of the Opportunity. This has the effect of leveling the playing field so that the stat measures the player's ability to take advantage of the given situation. Manny's denominator will be larger than Johnny "the idiot" Damon's because he will come up more often with runners on base. The worst score would be a -6/10 for a home to third to second triple play with the base loaded (probably has never happened). Striking out with the bases loaded is a 0/10 and a 0/4 with the bases empty. The stat goes a long way toward measuring clutch hitting.
I like it. Maybe I'll score a whole game this way and see what the stat looks like.
The OOPA is newly constructed to measure the player's ability to take advantage of the situational opportunity presented when he is at the plate. It is renamed OOPO for Offensive Output Per Opportunity, tentatively, though I like OA for offensive average. It's maximum score is a 1.000 like the BA. It's calculated by the total bases advanced by the batter and the runners DIVIDED BY the potential bases. Thus a grand slam is the same as a solo homer at 10/10 or 4/4. They both took maximum advantage of the Opportunity. This has the effect of leveling the playing field so that the stat measures the player's ability to take advantage of the given situation. Manny's denominator will be larger than Johnny "the idiot" Damon's because he will come up more often with runners on base. The worst score would be a -6/10 for a home to third to second triple play with the base loaded (probably has never happened). Striking out with the bases loaded is a 0/10 and a 0/4 with the bases empty. The stat goes a long way toward measuring clutch hitting.
I like it. Maybe I'll score a whole game this way and see what the stat looks like.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Tentative RS/BJ plans-revised version
T,C, and L leave here 8ish. Go to Ithaca. Pick up rental car. Pick up C. Leave Ithaca 10ish, drive to Geneseo, arriving 1230ish. PIck up L. Go to Toronto from there, arriving when we get there, or earlier if possible.
Whaddaya think?
Whaddaya think?
Friday, April 01, 2005
What is the estimated annual income of your household? (Please include everyone in your household whose income is used to support your family) Income can be: wages from a job, unemployment insurance benefits, child support, Social Security retirement insurance, alimony, rental income, etc.
that is a question on the HYCC application....and I have no idea how to answer it...
that is a question on the HYCC application....and I have no idea how to answer it...
Hello, sports fans!
I have created a new baseball sadistic that I would like to refine and troubleshoot. for the moment I'm naming it Offensive Output per Plate Appearance, or OOPA for short. And, no, it does not measure fart volume while the batter is at the plate. What it attempts to measure is the amount of advancement (measured by the base) that a batter (and as a baserunner also) is responsible for, directly as by a walk, or indirectly, as by advancing a runner. I give credit to a batter for each base he acquires and any bases acquired by the runners he advances. Some tentative rules:
A bases-empty single is worth 1.
A bases empty walk is worth 1.
A strikeout or ball-in-play out is worth 0, unless it advances a runner.
A bases-loaded walk is worth four(four runners each advanced one base.)
A bases-empty homer is worth four also.
A homer with a man on first is worth 7.
A homer with a man on third is worth 5.
A grand salami is worth ten, the max a batter could get.
A perfect average would then be 10.00, indicating a grand slam for each plate appearance.
Sacrificing one runner one base would be a one.
Trying to stretch a single into a double and getting caught would be a zero. One point was given for the single, and then a minus one for erasing the runner.
A caught stealing is a -1.
A steal is a +1.
Hitting into a double play is a -1. (There was a runner on first when the batter came up, and the runner was no longer there afterward, and he didn't score.)
Hitting into a triple play with runners on first and second is a -3 (three bases given up).
Hitting into a triple play with runners on second and third is a -5 ( I Think that would be the worst result possible.)
If you steal a base it is a +1.
If you reach on an error it is a +1. everybody reaches on errors, and maybe some batters, by virtue of the way they hit, are able to manufacture errors.
If a runner steals while you are batting the credit goes to the runner, not the batter. Likewise if the runner is thrown out or picked off.
HBP is worth 1 plus any other runners that advance.
The stat measures offensive production more accurately than any other I've seen. Batting average doesn't take into account runners in scoring position. The playing field isn't necessarily level because some batters will hit with runners on more than other batters, but it gives credit for production when those opportunities are given.
Comments and criticisms are invited.
A bases-empty single is worth 1.
A bases empty walk is worth 1.
A strikeout or ball-in-play out is worth 0, unless it advances a runner.
A bases-loaded walk is worth four(four runners each advanced one base.)
A bases-empty homer is worth four also.
A homer with a man on first is worth 7.
A homer with a man on third is worth 5.
A grand salami is worth ten, the max a batter could get.
A perfect average would then be 10.00, indicating a grand slam for each plate appearance.
Sacrificing one runner one base would be a one.
Trying to stretch a single into a double and getting caught would be a zero. One point was given for the single, and then a minus one for erasing the runner.
A caught stealing is a -1.
A steal is a +1.
Hitting into a double play is a -1. (There was a runner on first when the batter came up, and the runner was no longer there afterward, and he didn't score.)
Hitting into a triple play with runners on first and second is a -3 (three bases given up).
Hitting into a triple play with runners on second and third is a -5 ( I Think that would be the worst result possible.)
If you steal a base it is a +1.
If you reach on an error it is a +1. everybody reaches on errors, and maybe some batters, by virtue of the way they hit, are able to manufacture errors.
If a runner steals while you are batting the credit goes to the runner, not the batter. Likewise if the runner is thrown out or picked off.
HBP is worth 1 plus any other runners that advance.
The stat measures offensive production more accurately than any other I've seen. Batting average doesn't take into account runners in scoring position. The playing field isn't necessarily level because some batters will hit with runners on more than other batters, but it gives credit for production when those opportunities are given.
Comments and criticisms are invited.
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