Sortable Pitcher Win Values
Pitcher Win Values are now available in the leaderboards, team pages, and the MyTeam section.
Two fun facts:
After the park, league and replacement adjustments for 2008, it looks like Roy Halladay was ever so slightly more valuable than C.C. Sabathia by our calculations. Though for all practical purposes they were equally valuable. Neither of them the Cy Young award, though Sabathia did change leagues making it particularly difficult for him to win. (C.C Sabathia 7.68 wins vs. Roy Halladay 7.71 wins)
Remember when Eric Seidman wrote about how awful Brandon Backe was and how he couldn’t understand why he was still allowed to pitch in the majors? Well, of all the qualified starting pitchers in 2008, Backe finished dead last in wins, with -0.8 of them.
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Forget Backe. I’d like to know how Scott Elarton keeps finding work.
Look at his ERA in 2008 and his numbers in Buffalo prior to that.
Thanks for all the great work you’ve been doing and the great website you run!
How would I use this stat? Do I simply add up Pitchers Wins plus Hitters Player Wins to get a rough estimate of a team?
Also, OT, but I just took a look at all your stuff for Swings, Contact, etc. and it is all fascinating stuff!!! It would help if there were more glossary entries, but I was able to figure out each of the stats eventually by reading the articles linked and then I extrapolated. Where would I go to find out the league averages for them? Possible idea would be to make the top line of each leaderboard be the Average line, for easy reference.
Even better, why not from the Glossary link to pages with comprehensive summary statistics, i.e. histograms and percentiles for each of your stats? It’s nice to know the league average, but it would be perfect with a detailed breakdown.
Thanks for all the tremendous work so far!
Should be fixed now.
David
When you are looking at pitchers by value it doesn’t seem like the sort by AL/NL feature is working properly. Just an FYI
Thanks for the great updates.
Any chance for pitcher win values you include hitting? because hitting is still a part of a players game, pitcher on not
Probably not right now. You can always add up the numbers if you really want to know. I doubt there’s going to be a lot of pitchers that add a whole lot to their team.
I know, but any variation is important. Additionally, they hurt their teams, which should be reflected.