Sports: A Game Of Inches

We are four humble men who love sports, but hate sports commentary. Peter Gammons is our hero and John Madden is our enemy. If you were to ask us our purpose, our answer would be simple: "We are forever locked in Mortal Kombat for the souls of sports fans everywhere. Statistics are our science and 'the immeasurable character of men' is the obsolete religion of blind faith. Our job is to prove that God doesn't exist and that athletes are merely cold, metal machines with no hearts or souls."

The Great Runs Expectancy Chart

Here is a chart of the mathematical run expectancy (based on tons of data from 1999 through 2002) with various runners on or not on various bases with various amounts of outs. Cool shit, right? It sort of proves that sac bunting a guy over from any base decreases run expectancy. Take that, Dusty Baker!

2 comments:

Adam Kaplan said...: Um, I'm pretty sure Billy Beane already mentioned this!

How do you have more words in your label than in your post, do you not realize what the "label" thing is for?; March 12, 2009 at 9:25 AM
The 'Bright' One said...: i have watched cubs baseball for some 13 years and i can tell you bases loaded nobody out foes not equal 2.417 runs. More like 1.2; March 12, 2009 at 3:28 PM