IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

[Graphik]

For batters and pitchers. You see batting aaverages being tossed around as well as ERA numbers, what do you feel is the most important stat if you were to analize a player?

[Kodiak33]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

For batters and pitchers. You see batting aaverages being tossed around as well as ERA numbers, what do you feel is the most important stat if you were to analize a player?

Batting average by far

[Beantown]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

On base percentage for hitters...and maybe WHIP for pitchers, although I'm sure there's some uber-stat for pitchers that I don't know about

[BGarrett7]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

EqA and dERA.

[cbgatorade0202]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

For Hitters ..me personally Rbi's ..and for Pitching..Era

[JoseValentinWooo]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

you dont win games by getting more hits or giving up less hits then the opposition.

therefor the best stat is

hitters- Runs/RBI's

pitchers- era

[Dice]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

Everystat has flaws BUT batting average is a proven stat that has been the staple for hitters.

As for pitchers, ERA is good with starting pitchers BUT with relievers the stat definately gets inflated. There can be a reliever with a low ERA but he could be allowing the inherited runners to come in to score. The best stat I think would be good for picther is also batting average BUT batting average allowed.

[Skerik]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

Adjusted OPS and ERA. Or, if you want to compare them to their peers, OPS+ and ERA+.

Or, if you want to get really detailed, VORP.

[Stu]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

Without getting too advanced, OPS for hitters and ERA for pitchers.

[Stu]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

It's amazing how many people still thing BA (by itself) Runs, RBI's, etc are significant statistics.

[Graphik]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

EqA and dERA.

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[Stu]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

Equivalent Average. A measure of total offensive value per out, with corrections for league offensive level, home park, and team pitching. EQA considers batting as well as baserunning, but not the value of a position player's defense. The EqA adjusted for all-time also has a correction for league difficulty. The scale is deliberately set to approximate that of batting average. League average EqA is always equal to .260. EqA is derived from Raw EqA, which is (H + TB + 1.5*(BB + HBP + SB) + SH + SF) divided by (AB + BB + HBP + SH + SF + CS + SB). REqA is then normalized to account for league difficulty and scale to create EqA.

Defense-adjusted ERA. Not to be confused with Voros McCracken's Defense-Neutral ERA. Based on the PRAA, DERA is intended to be a defense-independent version of the NRA. As with that statistic, 4.50 is average. Note that if DERA is higher than NRA, you can safely assume he pitched in front of an above-average defense.

[Graphik]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

What about On Base Percentage..

[Graphik]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

Equivalent Average. A measure of total offensive value per out, with corrections for league offensive level, home park, and team pitching. EQA considers batting as well as baserunning, but not the value of a position player's defense. The EqA adjusted for all-time also has a correction for league difficulty. The scale is deliberately set to approximate that of batting average. League average EqA is always equal to .260. EqA is derived from Raw EqA, which is (H + TB + 1.5*(BB + HBP + SB) + SH + SF) divided by (AB + BB + HBP + SH + SF + CS + SB). REqA is then normalized to account for league difficulty and scale to create EqA.

Defense-adjusted ERA. Not to be confused with Voros McCracken's Defense-Neutral ERA. Based on the PRAA, DERA is intended to be a defense-independent version of the NRA. As with that statistic, 4.50 is average. Note that if DERA is higher than NRA, you can safely assume he pitched in front of an above-average defense.

Shh..you hear that? Thats the sound of all of that swooshing directly over my head.

Wow, where did all these stats come from? I thought I was a stat nut, I need to reavaluate that claim.

[stalsy2310]

Re: IYO, what is the most important stat in baseball?

Hitters is Total Bases and Pitchers is WHIP.