Justin Upton's rating

[wudl83]

Re: Justin Upton's rating

I haven't actually looked and calculated it myself, but if you really want to prove either side, you would need to compare his ISO (or slugging) to his batting average, and make some sort of ratio of the two numbers, for each side, so that you can see whether the ratio of singles to hits changes.

The Iso Power does separate the sheer power from the contact. That's the sense behind this stat.
http://www.fangraphs.com/library/offense/iso/

[Bobhead]

Re: Justin Upton's rating

The Iso Power does separate the sheer power from the contact. That's the sense behind this stat.
http://www.fangraphs.com/library/offense/iso/

Right. Separation is bad. You want to look at both so that you can see the correlation and/or ratio, which is the critical number here. Hitting more XBH's and HR's doesn't mean much alone, there are a variety of factors that could explain it.

[wudl83]

Re: Justin Upton's rating

Right. Separation is bad. You want to look at both so that you can see the correlation and/or ratio, which is the critical number here. Hitting more XBH's and HR's doesn't mean much alone, there are a variety of factors that could explain it.

And how do you want to measure it? I don't know of a better method.

[JaFFiTh]

Re: Justin Upton's rating

I remember back with MVP 05, someone did calucations, the power was something to do with the difference of SLG and AVG... I found it pretty accurate but I don't remember how exactly he did it, i do remember it was very simple.

[bukktown]

Re: Justin Upton's rating

Thread hijacking 101. This thing should be in a textbook.