Strikeouts in National Pastime
More numbers that don't add up
Strikeouts in National Pastime
Batter’s strikeouts in National Pastime suffer from the same problems that walks suffer from. If Clifford Van Beek actually did have his cards ready for the 1930 Christmas season, there’s simply no way he had real life strikeout data.
And, as we would expect, the strikeouts don’t match up well with expected strikeouts:
While these numbers are a little bit better than the walks we saw yesterday, these are a lot further off than the numbers we saw earlier for doubles and triples.
We see a similar problem on the other side of the spreadsheet:
As you can see here, it’s interesting to note that not every player has a 13 on his card. I’m not sure what method Van Beek could have used to assign 13s.
Do you have any ideas?
I wonder if we're looking at the wrong side of the equation here, where in the absence of available batting figures the walks and strikeouts are being assigned to make team pitching work in those categories, as they did with errors. Are players on specific teams consistently off in one direction or the other?
read very word of your research regarding NPiii - so interesing