Stories tagged with "ops" - Amazin' Avenue

Ok, so he’s good, but how good? The PLUS metrics

by Andrew Martin on Apr 29, 2010 4:00 PM EDT on Purple Row

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Advanced Statistics Primers -- Updated

by James Kannengieser on Jan 9, 2010 10:13 AM EST

Alex Remington of Big League Stew has been putting together a series of excellent posts about various advanced statistics, most of which are cited around here. Check them out: BABIP OPS+ FIP wOBA WPA UZR WAR Additionally, Steve Sommer and Erik Manning of the saber-friendly Cardinals blog Play A...

Statistical Metrics and what we do with them

by Andrew Martin on Aug 19, 2009 1:00 PM EDT on Purple Row

Over the past several months, Counting Rocks has introduced numerous new tools to put into our statistical toolbox to attempt to quantify the performances of the players on the field. A lot of questions have begun popping up recently about how to properly use these metrics, what they mean, and what...

Mets OPS By Position

by James Kannengieser on Jun 3, 2009 12:30 PM EDT

Position NL Avg Mets NL Rank P .361 .342 11 C .742 .729 9 1B .836 .809 8 2B .752 .710 11 3B .759 .880 2 SS .717 .723 6 LF .810 .857 6 CF .774 1.024 1 RF .779 .654 14 Where would this 28-23 team be without Carlos Beltran, David Wright, and Gary Sheffield? They've carried an...

Counting Rocks: There are so many statistics....which one should I use?

by Andrew T. Fisher on Mar 11, 2009 7:15 PM EDT on Purple Row

Surprise, Rowbots! RockiesMagicNumber is still in Toronto slaving over his coverage of the World Baseball Classic, and I'll be "out of office" next week, so I'm subbing in this week to offer a slightly different version of Counting Rocks. Baseball is the game for statistics junkies. It just...