Comments on: Plate Discipline Stats

By: studes

studes — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:27:15 +0000

Hey David, I have a very minor suggestion. I was looking at these definitions:

# O-Swing%: The percentage of pitches a batter swings at outside the strike zone.
# Z-Swing%: The percentage of pitches a batter swings at inside the strike zone.

…and I didn’t understand why these two figures didn’t add up to 1. The wording makes it seem as though the denominator of both stats is swings. When you add these definitions to the glossary (hint, hint), I’d suggest something like:

Percent of pitches outside the strike zone that a batter swings at.

Thanks.

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:47:47 +0000

I’m going to look into this today since average stats for the plate discipline stats have been highly requested.

By: Chris Dial

Chris Dial — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:58:46 +0000

Could you add the columns for production (even just BA) for O-swing” and “Z-swing”?

By: cris

cris — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:31:02 +0000

all right, nevermind. i now know what TLV is. (newbie)

By: cris

cris — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:26:25 +0000

this is really good stuff. is there any way we can break this down into where it is in the pitch count. the 0-2 data would be really interesting.

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:23:42 +0000

We’re looking into the LA teams situation. It does seem a little weird.

By: Slyde

Slyde — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:20:52 +0000

Is the Zone% data accurate for the Los Angeles teams? It is suspicious to me that for the last 2 seasons, all of the qualified hitters from the Dodgers and Angels have the lowest Zone% in the league. This can’t be right, can it?

By: Edgar for Pres

Edgar for Pres — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:03:55 +0000

Why is O-Contact% consistently rising? Random or real?

By: Dave Cameron

Dave Cameron — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:30:12 +0000

Absolutely, Sky. We’ll be doing a lot more TLV analysis as the year goes on.

By: thebear

thebear — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:03:33 +0000

this is awesome thanks so much with your help last year i dominated fb and now I am already doing it again this can only help!!