Groundball/flyball for players

blasek0 · 01-13-2013, 12:21 PM

Would it be possible for the game to track groundball vs flyball vs line drive percentage for players? Both hitters and pitchers. If you play out a game, the game engine is already classifying the batted ball type to determine hit/fielded, XBH vs home run vs single, etc etc, so would the option to display this as a stat for both hitters and pitchers be an option? Particularly if these can be put in as percentages of balls-in-play for that player.

For example:
Eric Hosmer in 2012 hit 53.6% GB, 27.9% FB (with 9.7% of those being IFFB), 18.5% LD.

Also potentially useful, swinging strike rates for both hitters and pitchers. How often does the player swing at a ball (at any point in the count) and fail to make contact with it? How often does a pitcher throw a pitch that the batter swings at and fails to make contact with? Especially in stats-only leagues, these would be very helpful for people trying to help predict who'll strike out more/less.

stannis · 01-21-2013, 04:52 PM

Hmm, I was about to make a thread with broadly these suggestions, then realized I should do a Search in case it had already been brought up...

I really support this idea. Tracking GB/FB/LD outcomes for hitters would be very useful (HR/FB would be so useful for stats-only play). Swinging strikes similarly so. Both of these seem to be logged in the Box Scores already, it would just be a case of the game engine adding them to each player's individual stats. If I could add to blasek0's suggestion, two further helpful stats to track (if possible) would be:
- infield hits (helpful for stats-only play as a high infield hit percentage has significance in constructing batting lineups, and cannot be accounted for in advanced metrics which view a-hit-as-better-than-a-walk)
- strike zone discipline i.e. how often a batter is swinging at pitches outside the zone (I don't know whether this, seemingly more detailed, layer of stats, is tracked by the game - it sometimes appears in the PbP but the Game Log itself doesn't preserve a log of whether Swinging Strikes were at good pitches or not - but if it were, logging for batters would be really useful for judging discipline in stats-only play).

Marinersfan51 · 01-23-2013, 12:00 AM

These would be awesome

Tut · 01-25-2013, 02:32 PM

I really like this idea as well. I'd suggest saving the stats for pitchers too, opens up spots for a few more beloved stats such as HR/FB% and SIERA.

01-13-2013, 12:21 PM	#1
blasek0 Major Leagues Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 345	Groundball/flyball for players Would it be possible for the game to track groundball vs flyball vs line drive percentage for players? Both hitters and pitchers. If you play out a game, the game engine is already classifying the batted ball type to determine hit/fielded, XBH vs home run vs single, etc etc, so would the option to display this as a stat for both hitters and pitchers be an option? Particularly if these can be put in as percentages of balls-in-play for that player. For example: Eric Hosmer in 2012 hit 53.6% GB, 27.9% FB (with 9.7% of those being IFFB), 18.5% LD. Also potentially useful, swinging strike rates for both hitters and pitchers. How often does the player swing at a ball (at any point in the count) and fail to make contact with it? How often does a pitcher throw a pitch that the batter swings at and fails to make contact with? Especially in stats-only leagues, these would be very helpful for people trying to help predict who'll strike out more/less.

01-21-2013, 04:52 PM	#2
stannis Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: UK Posts: 35	Hmm, I was about to make a thread with broadly these suggestions, then realized I should do a Search in case it had already been brought up... I really support this idea. Tracking GB/FB/LD outcomes for hitters would be very useful (HR/FB would be so useful for stats-only play). Swinging strikes similarly so. Both of these seem to be logged in the Box Scores already, it would just be a case of the game engine adding them to each player's individual stats. If I could add to blasek0's suggestion, two further helpful stats to track (if possible) would be: - infield hits (helpful for stats-only play as a high infield hit percentage has significance in constructing batting lineups, and cannot be accounted for in advanced metrics which view a-hit-as-better-than-a-walk) - strike zone discipline i.e. how often a batter is swinging at pitches outside the zone (I don't know whether this, seemingly more detailed, layer of stats, is tracked by the game - it sometimes appears in the PbP but the Game Log itself doesn't preserve a log of whether Swinging Strikes were at good pitches or not - but if it were, logging for batters would be really useful for judging discipline in stats-only play).

01-23-2013, 12:00 AM	#3
Marinersfan51 All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 777	These would be awesome

01-25-2013, 02:32 PM	#4
Tut Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 3	I really like this idea as well. I'd suggest saving the stats for pitchers too, opens up spots for a few more beloved stats such as HR/FB% and SIERA.