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Originally Posted by Smoothie7745
I'm sorry if I'm an *******, too, but that's just not statistically accurate. And certainly not because of the defense, era played in, or league played in. I'm currently looking for a stat rating both Ryan and Finley's quality start ratios. If you find one first, please share.
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But it is! Finley, if he was playing in the same time, same defense, same stadium, would be 0.2 runs better than Ryan in an 'average' game, as per almost any metric you can find!
www.baseballprospectus.com
What might be easier is to ask in what combined metrics does Ryan look better in?
Anyway, I can't find QS% anywhere, but I'm not sure what it would prove. If two pitchers have similar results, but different QS%s, then what your left with is a pitcher who has more good starts and more bad ones, and a pitcher who has more average starts. Which is better? The guy who gives a team a chance to win each day, but equally a chance to lose, or the guy who puts up numbers that will always win half hs games but always lose the other half? They both sound about the same to me.