Friday, October 6, 2023

A New Statistic

OK being a acknowledged lifetime stats freak, I thought they had everything covered. That they had a number or measure for every possible situation. Apparently, I was wrong. Though I've yet to see it on the back of a baseball card. Or in any of my Bill James analytics books. I just read a baseball statistic that I've never seen before ..... average sprint speed, measured in feet-per-second. As in, said player that I was reading about was the sixth slowest in the majors among those with at least a hundred at bats. I would think that two or three at bats would be enough of a sample size to qualify for that judgement. Or that just the eyeball test and assigned label of "slow" would suffice. But I guess there has to be a number. And it even has a decimal point .... 24.6 feet per second. That "sounds" like sprinters speed to me but it's actually slower than slow.

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