starting pitcher stats - google spreadsheet

mbuser   5/2/2013 5:41 PM

I've posted a spreadsheet with the following stats for starting pitchers:

BABIP, LOB%, ERA, WHIP, K/9, BB/9, H/9, HR/9

The first two stats give a look at who might have been lucky or unlucky thus far, while the last four show what exactly is going right or wrong to arrive at their numbers. Some details on BABIP here, some details on LOB% here.

Extremely high or low stats are highlighted green (good) or red (bad), but keep in mind that it's relative to league averages and not career norms. I'll update this regularly and welcome any feedback.

http://bit.ly/11FJiox

(Click "File -> Download as" if you want to do some sorting on your own machine.)

liam4  5/2/2013 8:30 PM

Love it.  Thanks.  Jordan Zimmerman, to the trading block you go.

is there a place to find the same for hitters?  I've been pulling up hitter metrics individually, which could be more time efficient...

bcavers  5/3/2013 12:02 AM

Cool, thanks for this. HR/FB rate would be a good addition. As well as maybe FIP and xFIP to compare to ERA.

mbuser   5/3/2013 12:41 AM

liam, I will see about putting together a hitter sheet, as well.

bcavers, thanks for the suggestions.

liam4  5/5/2013 10:12 AM

Matt,

Again, thank you for pulling this together.  One suggestion; you could add career babip against.  Thinking being that it isn't entirely luck; ground ball pitchers might have a different baseline than fly ball.  Obviously this metric would be most useful for pitchers with at least several seasons under their belt.

i've seen xBABIP, which is the expected BABIP value given other metrics, but don't know how that is calculated.  Interesting concept though.

liam4  5/5/2013 3:10 PM

One other idea -- may be difficult to source this data, but I've seen comparisons of average fastball velocity year over year, or vs career.  

Not always meaningful, but worth consideration.  For example, Sabathia is down 2.5mph, comparing April 2013 vs April 2012, and is below 90mph so far.  Cliff Lee down 1.6mph.  

mbuser   5/5/2013 6:54 PM

Certainly good suggestions, but I don't have access to most of those career numbers. You'll notice that we don't display stuff like average pitch velocities anywhere on our site.

mbuser   5/10/2013 8:04 PM

Posted an update. Nothing new this go-around, will see about adding some new numbers next update:

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I've posted a spreadsheet with the following stats for starting pitchers:

BABIP, LOB%, ERA, WHIP, K/9, BB/9, H/9, HR/9

The first two stats give a look at who might have been lucky or unlucky thus far, while the last four show what exactly is going right or wrong to arrive at their numbers. Some details on BABIP here, some details on LOB% here.

Extremely high or low stats are highlighted green (good) or red (bad), but keep in mind that it's relative to league averages and not career norms. I'll update this regularly and welcome any feedback.

http://bit.ly/11FJiox

(Click "File -> Download as" if you want to do some sorting on your own machine.)

mbuser   5/20/2013 4:37 PM

Updated the numbers and added FIP and ERA-FIP

Constantine9  5/21/2013 8:56 AM

This is cool. Have you thought about adding the ISO stat Salfino writes about?

mbuser   5/21/2013 11:28 AM

ISO = SLG - AVG. For most intents and purposes, HR/9 covers ISO.

mbuser   5/28/2013 12:31 PM

5/28 update posted

mbuser   6/15/2013 2:16 PM

6/15 update posted

mbuser   7/1/2013 8:42 PM

7/1 update posted

mbuser   7/24/2013 12:18 AM

7/23 posted