Comments on: Team Pages Updated

By: SamoanRob

SamoanRob — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:14:11 +0000

Thanks. The team pages are great. Check out the Indians Relief WPA from 2005-2008. They yo-yo from 4th to 30th to 2nd to 29th. Kind of explains how they are surpisingly good or surprisingly bad every year now.

I have a theory that the bottom relief WPA teams exceed expectations the following year and vice versa. Not that relief is luck, but it doesn’t seem to repeat. Not sure how to test the theory tho.

Guess who had the top Relief WPA in the AL and NL this year (Hint: they’re still playing)

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:33:50 +0000

SamoanRob, it’s a run environment thing, where it’s not perfectly balanced and it’s really difficult to get it exactly balanced. 12 wins isn’t going to make much of a difference anyway and I think the consensus on how much work it was to fix just isn’t worth the .05 wins that a full time pitcher/batter would lose/gain.

By: SamoanRob

SamoanRob — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:24:35 +0000

Cool. Just wondering why WPA doesn’t ‘balance’. Pitchers add up to positive 11.82 WPA (hitters negative 11.82). Is it cuz of errors?

By: David Appelman

David Appelman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:16:02 +0000

Splits have been on the to-do list for a while. Hopefully I can get them done this off-season. Glad everyone is liking the new team pages!

By: Mike Podhorzer

Mike Podhorzer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:57:49 +0000

David, fantastic as usual. I would love to also see you add split stats for both players and teams such as vs. lefties/righties, home/away and maybe even monthly and pre/post-ASB. Is this something you might add in the future?

By: David Foy

David Foy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:03:09 +0000

Exceptional job

By: Brian Gallagher

Brian Gallagher — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:54:03 +0000

The new pages are amazing. Huzzah to you.

By: Tom Au

Tom Au — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:28:22 +0000

Thanks, David. This is a lot better.

By: snepp

snepp — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:02:19 +0000

You’re awesome.

That is all.