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Blue jays fan, flames fan, fantasy hockey playoffs round one winner

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This is the same but for 2025, including postseason… I agree with number one

And the relative weights of each component are shown.
I would like to include cwpa, pitch location but wanted to work basically only with play-by-play data from savant

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This is a very very cool home run. Probably the max possible wpa!!

According to my made up statistic “aura+”, it’s the 6th coolest home run of the year!
I would put it higher myself tho…

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@ParadisoReale @AndrewStoeten Good call, that’s why xfip is more predictive than fip

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@ParadisoReale @AndrewStoeten An 80 xfip- is very good! There are only 6 rp with same ip and better xfip! Only 2 have more strikeouts!

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@innocentfernie_ @Sean_Deere @BaseballWRLD_ Yep but if it’s game 7 of the World Series I want my teams roster full of guys w good xstats

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@Sean_Deere @BaseballWRLD_ Would you learn more about the batter if the ball bounced off the fielders head and over the fence?
Or if he hit a ball so well in coors and it went 50 ft over the fence?

Player analysis is ab looking at what the players can actually control

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@Nyanasaur @Dapal5 @Sean_Deere @BaseballWRLD_ They all are, to see it u can play around with savant search w diff ev la combos

Notice how on gbs faster players get more credit for same combo, while on air balls everyone gets the same credit

Below is 95 mph, -7 deg and 95 mph, 20 deg

https://t.co/fK63krasD1

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@Sean_Deere @BaseballWRLD_ Yea for figuring out how good a batter has been, xstats matter more

Sometimes a hitter smokes the ball in the air and gets nothing, other times they get a bloop hit by accident

xstats see thru that! Ex, on this play below: xslg=1.031, slg=0, hr in 29/30
https://t.co/5P4ibqTytx

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@SeanFennessey Statcast watches all the games and as you can see in the graph, Bo has turned it around many times

Just wait until he turns it around for good. We are going to need a bigger graph 📈

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@EthanHullihen It’s so good!

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@Sox_Savant A extreme example this yr tho is poor rowdy tellez, he’s only played on the road in petco and citi field (both 92 pf on fangraphs, loses him 8 pts of wrc+)

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@Sox_Savant Well in general on the road the diff btwn no PF and smth like a PA wtd PF are going to be very small

Rockies players are disadvantaged by ~1 pt of wrc+ in general (and they’re an extreme case)

Goodman has visited more hitter friendly parks this yr so his pa wtd pf is 100

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@sunshinevvn I just used the fangraphs baseruns formula in their glossary!
What are the updated weights?

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Ta da I redid the famous team R/G R^2 chart and have done some dumb math to get RC from OPS

woba wins anyways and baseruns wins even more

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@EliotJurgensen @PitcherList It’s good but this chart makes it seem like it’s better than woba

The chart proves it isnt tho since wrc is based on woba (cant do same w ops bc its bad math)!

Since the charts question is about team r/g, ops and woba aren’t the right tool (baseruns/g better than wrc/g)

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@EliotJurgensen @PitcherList It’s good but this chart makes it seem like it’s better than woba

The chart proves it isnt tho since wrc is based on woba (cant do same w ops bc its bad math)!

Since the charts question is about team r/g, ops and woba aren’t the right tool (baseruns/g better than wrc/g)

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@ejmb0000000 @BaseballWRLD_ In my modelling with his bat speed avg up 4mph his fast swing rate would be 89.1% (best in mlb)

It def helps to swing faster, but only on balls hit in the LA sweetspot

Ex. Yordan the elite la sweetspot guy, gains ~22 runs on his bip in same model (and is 12 runs better in k+bb)

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@ejmb0000000 @BaseballWRLD_ I fear that it isnt so much a bat speed problem with him

Modelling him as mlbs bat speed leader optimisticly adds ~14 runs of value to his season, which would make him a league avg hitter…

Bad launch angles + too many Ks are the culprit imo

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@M_D_L_J @TheWARmonger_ Yes PCA has been getting less 5 star opps than other CF on a per fly ball + line drive against basis

But overall he is getting a pretty normal amount of opportunities, with a normal general difficulty level