{"id":145,"date":"2008-03-01T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T23:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2008-05-29T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T21:49:20","slug":"effect-of-pitcher-symbols-on-batter-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Effect of pitcher symbols on batter rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I adjusted my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=132\">rating method<\/a> to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=140\">average pitcher symbols<\/a> into account on the batters&#8217; cards. As expected, the effect is most profound for guys with big walk &#038; HR ranges, as can be seen for a few guys in the table below. &#8220;Before&#8221; means pitcher symbols were <u>not<\/u> taken into account; &#8220;after&#8221; means they <u>were<\/u> taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>[image lost]<\/p>\n<p>The higher-rated players will have bigger differences, simply because lots of homers &#038; walks make them highly rated. Of course, nothing changed in the cards, it&#8217;s just that I overrated the batters. Assuming my current ratings are much more accurate, I overrated Burrell&#8217;s performance by 7.4%, not an insignificant amount!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I adjusted my rating method to take average pitcher symbols into account on the batters&#8217; cards. As expected, the effect is most profound for guys with big walk &#038; HR ranges, as can be seen for a few guys in the table below. &#8220;Before&#8221; means pitcher symbols were not taken into account; &#8220;after&#8221; means they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Effect of pitcher symbols on batter rating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abl","category-triple-play-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}