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W-L
ERA
Quality Starts.
#truth.
ERA
Quality Starts.
#truth.
1) K to W ratio...
2) who cares
3) see above
4) nice troll thread
5) sweet avatar Smitty, been dating long?
W-L
ERA
Quality Starts.
#truth.
i like W-L and QS a lot but in reality they are not top 3... maybe one of them is top 5...
1. ERA
2. WHIP
3. IP
4. QS
5. Ks
6. W-L %
would be my top 6 in that order
I find it mildly odd that WHIP has caught on with the public but OPS against hasn't, when it gives you the same information that WHIP does and more. They could even call it Opposition OPS and give it the easy to remember acronym "OOPS", which fits perfectly since when a pitcher makes a mistake his "OOPS" is probably gonna go up.
keeping statistics easy to understand is important... WHIP is much easier statistic to calculate, and easier to explain to the mass... thats kind of the problem with many sabremetric statistics, you have to explain it to people for them to understand it- not good for a statistic...
i like W-L and QS a lot but in reality they are not top 3... maybe one of them is top 5...
1. ERA
2. WHIP
3. IP
4. QS
5. Ks
6. W-L %
would be my top 6 in that order
keeping statistics easy to understand is important... WHIP is much easier statistic to calculate, and easier to explain to the mass... thats kind of the problem with many sabremetric statistics, you have to explain it to people for them to understand it- not good for a statistic...
W-L
ERA
Quality Starts.
#truth.
But at the same time OPS has caught on to some degree on the offensive side of the ledger, and calculating and explaining it is exactly the same.
yea, OPS is not too complicated... the calculation and explanation is easy enough for the masses to get behind the stat...
Can't judge a pitcher on win/loss record. Period