Diamond Mind Baseball Statistics Guide: Team Pitching

The saga continues.

Diamond Mind Baseball Statistics Guide: Team Pitching

We’re back with another look at Diamond Mind Baseball’s statistics, this time focusing on team pitching stats.

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Basic Team Pitching

These are all fairly straightforward.

Team: Name of team

ERA: Earned run average

Wins: Wins; from a team perspective, this isn’t all that arbitrary.

L: Losses

S: Saves, a stat I really dislike

G: Games played

CG: Complete games pitched.

INN: Innings pitched. Multiply by 3 (but treat the decimals carefully) and you’ll get total number of outs a team has turned.

H: Hits allowed

R: Runs allowed, which is probably the most important team pitching statistic.

ER: Earned runs allowed.

BB: Walks allowed

K: Strikeouts

HR: Home runs allowed

GDP: Double play ground balls induced.

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Extended Team Pitching

Name: Team name

IW: Intentional walks allowed

HBP: Batters hit by pitch

SH: Sacrifice hits allowed. Don’t ask me why this is important to know.

SF: Sacrifice flies allowed — another thing the pitcher likely has no control over.

WP: Wild pitches allowed

BK: Balks allowed

SB: Stolen bases allowed

CS: Number of base runners caught stealing

PK: Number of successful pickoffs

H/9: Hits allowed per 9 innings

BB/9: Walks allowed per 9 innings

R/9: Runs allowed per 9 innings. Something seems off about the number above. I don’t believe we’re seeing 13 runs per 9 innings in 1949.

K/9: Strikeouts allowed per 9 innings

HR/9: Home runs allowed per 9 innings

K/BB: Walk to strikeout ratio.

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Sabermetric Team Pitching

Team: Team name

OPS: On-base percentage plus slugging percentage against

WHIP: Walks plus hits per inning pitched

BIP: Number of balls in play allowed

IPAVG: Batting average allowed on balls in play. There is still some debate as to whether pitchers have some degree of control over this, though mainstream sabermetrics seems to have concluded that they have no control.

TBW: Total bases plus walks, our favorite “why do you exist” stat.

TBW/BF: Total bases plus walks per batters faced.

TBWH: Total bases plus walks plus batters hit by pitch

TBWH/BF: Total bases plus walks plus batters hit by pitch per batters faced

RC: Runs created against

RC27: Runs created against per 27 outs

RCERA: ERA as approximated by runs created; I’m still not sure why this is different from RC27.

CERA: Component ERA. Again, I think WHIP is easier to understand and to visualize.

That wasn’t too bad, was it? However, I do think there is a problem with the R/9 stats, which seem far too high.