Team batting average-29 out of 30 teams

[Dick B Back]

Hey stat guys, do I need to understand low hard hit rates and stuff like that to be considered more than a casual fan? I am not asking that to be a dick, I just am not sure I want to spend a bunch of time learning stuff if it doesn't help me more than my eye balls help me.

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[Lou]

You win Dick's Post of the Day Award (PODA) since you used low, hard, and dick in the same paragraph. Congrats!

 

and balls

[Lou]

RBIs as an individual stat are almost entirely dependent on context. If you have a bad hitting team with one star (for instance, Trout), then his RBIs will be deflated.

 

It works much better as a team stat. Generally speaking, if your team does not score a lot of runs, you won't have a lot of RBIs.

 

BABIP is useful in determining whether an individual player (or a team) has been relatively lucky or unlucky and can help determine whether there will be regression to the mean in the future.

 

The Angels have been pretty unlucky, but some (Pujols) are also not making the adjustments that they can and need to.

 

just how is luck accurately measured?

[beatlesrule]

All you need to do is simply adjust your expectations. I watch the Angels games for great pitching and am surprised when they score more than 3 runs. I'm expecting every game to be low scoring.