Maths Inside Baseball
In playing 162 games every year, we are able to know there are many possibilities of arranging starting lineups. Despite the var ...
Lets apply basic properties of probability on a batter. What would be the probability of a three-hundred batter making a hit fir ...
experiment repeating the same experiment n times, probability of event A occurring r times is (^) nCr×Pr×( 1 −P)n−r A hitter wit ...
than our previous calculation of 4/9. We can then make a calculation with a batter B who had hit 30 out of 90 at bats. This batt ...
// Thinking out of the Box: Fielding shifts On October 18th, 2020, NLCS Game 7 was played between Atlanta Braves and LA Dodgers. ...
Then how do we increase defense? First, simply, there should be an ace pitcher, like Clayton Kershaw. Ace pitcher is the best st ...
^ KIATigersattemptedanunconventionalshift. 2 outsrunnerson OnMay13th,2015,ontheothersideoftheglobe,Koreanbaseballteam sta ...
second and third, Tigers bench sends a sign to give the next batter an intentional walk. Then, they placed the third baseman beh ...
eachbatterandplacingthefieldersatthebestpositionwheretheball havebettersuccessrateoffieldingbyanalyzingathittingdistributio ...
comes often. shiftedtheirinfielderstotherighttoincreasethechanceoffielding.In theballsflewright(pull-hit).ForsomeonelikeBellinge ...
addition, Bellinger faced a defensive shift against him in 91. 7 % of plate appearance. percentagewasraised.Itisimpossib ...
average in a moment. But through fielding shifts, 0.187 of fielding percentage was raised, further increasing the win percen ...
hitting a ground ball to the left, event A is hitting a ground ball, and even B is hitting to the left. A=Hitting ground ball B= ...
Sacrifice bunt is given when a batter bunts, and the runner successfully reaches the next base. It is normally played when runne ...
We need to look at the concept of Run Expectancy(RE). Run expectancy is how many runs we can expect to score, on average, given ...
dealing with. Sac Bunt, 1st to 2nd The bunt reduces the success of the average inning by 0.2 runs, which means that if you bunt ...
regardless of how many runs are earned. The following table presents the chance that a run will score at some point in the innin ...
advanced the baserunner. Some claim that we have to consider failed bunt attempts to advance a batter. Plus, few of them regard ...
plate appearances without sacrifice bunts). There is a 29.6% chance of increasing our run probability. If he fails to get on bas ...
assume that two outcomes have a 50/50 chance. A triple or homer will always score a run, unless the runner trips over. Now the o ...
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