Stats flaw

[seven]

There is a flaw in the games played stat for fielding. I happened to look at the current fielding leaders today and noticed that in my MLB simulation, Houston's Kyle Tucker was listed as having played the most games, at 60 (see 1st screen shot below). That seemed odd as Houston has played fewer than 60 games so far this season. So I hovered over his name to bring up the pop-up summary for him and it shows (see 1st screen shot below) that he's actually played only 57 games. How could this happen? I then looked at his fielding stats (see 2nd screen shot below) and noticed that he's listed as having played RF in 49 games and LF in 11 games. So he presumably switched from one position to the other in a few games. The flaw is that games played at each position are simply totalled to get games played, without taking into account instances where a player played in more than one position in a game.

Maybe this can be corrected.

[fredbeene]

Originally Posted by seven

There is a flaw in the games played stat for fielding. I happened to look at the current fielding leaders today and noticed that in my MLB simulation, Houston's Kyle Tucker was listed as having played the most games, at 60 (see 1st screen shot below). That seemed odd as Houston has played fewer than 60 games so far this season. So I hovered over his name to bring up the pop-up summary for him and it shows (see 1st screen shot below) that he's actually played only 57 games. How could this happen? I then looked at his fielding stats (see 2nd screen shot below) and noticed that he's listed as having played RF in 49 games and LF in 11 games. So he presumably switched from one position to the other in a few games. The flaw is that games played at each position are simply totalled to get games played, without taking into account instances where a player played in more than one position in a game.

Maybe this can be corrected.

good catch....is it possible that he played for another team during the season.