2063 - Fun With GBS Pitch Data

[RonCo]

So, I was having fun fiddling with my game scripts and looking at pitch rates and contact rates, and I though, hey, let's focus on the GBC for a bit. So here's a could of tables of fun data from down in the guts of the game logs.

For those of you who haven't been in the league a for more than a bit, after every sim, I grab all the box scores and game logs and run a series of perl scripts I wrote against those. These pick out a whole buncha data, a vast majority of which I haven't even begun to mine. But among the things I do break out are this data on each pitcher and (as in this case, team)...how many pitches have been thrown to date, how many strikes of varying types, how many balls, strikes swinging and looking, foul balls, and the obvious GB/FB/LD/PU mixes.

Since I have limited view into how OOTP makes these numbers, I admit I'm not 100% sure what to do with this kind of stuff, but it's interesting and it gives a lot more granularity than you get in game.

Here are GBC numbers after the first two weeks of the season.

Let's start with basic Contact Types...as of April 16...

Team	Contact	GB%	FB%	LD%	PU%	PU/FB	HR/FB	Bunts
Athens	389	0.416	0.275	0.242	0.067	0.243	0.093	5
Buenos Aires	432	0.414	0.326	0.192	0.067	0.206	0.135
Cairo	374	0.348	0.334	0.23	0.088	0.264	0.096	2
Jerusalem	378	0.37	0.336	0.222	0.071	0.213	0.134
Johannesburg	399	0.343	0.331	0.256	0.07	0.212	0.167	1
London	386	0.386	0.321	0.218	0.075	0.234	0.105	1
Moscow	430	0.4	0.337	0.207	0.056	0.166	0.097	5
Sao Paulo	444	0.392	0.288	0.257	0.063	0.219	0.141
Sydney	377	0.401	0.316	0.21	0.074	0.235	0.126
Tokyo	365	0.414	0.288	0.236	0.063	0.219	0.181

Here we see that Athens, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo hurlers are getting the ball on the ground more often than the rest. Moscow pitchers are putting the ball into the air more often than the rest, but are close to the best in the league at keeping these flies in their park. WARNING: SMALL SAMPLE SIZE.

Anyway, you can read the rest.

While we're having fun, though, here's the data based on individual pitches thrown:

Team	Pitches	Contact	Strikes	StrC	StrSw	Foul	Balls	SwStr	Str%	Ball%
Athens	1852	389	1175	279	167	340	698	0.142	0.634	0.377
Buenos	1868	432	1170	311	126	301	727	0.108	0.626	0.389
Cairo	1704	374	1134	278	158	324	601	0.139	0.665	0.353
Jerusalem	1898	378	1184	301	169	336	741	0.143	0.624	0.39
Johannesburg	1880	399	1203	299	188	317	704	0.156	0.64	0.374
London	1810	386	1163	273	187	317	675	0.161	0.643	0.373
Moscow	2055	430	1289	315	159	385	785	0.123	0.627	0.382
Sao Paulo	1848	444	1196	277	153	322	680	0.128	0.647	0.368
Sydney	1663	377	1061	265	133	286	630	0.125	0.638	0.379
Tokyo	1834	365	1191	297	203	326	666	0.17	0.649	0.363

Which is kinda fun. Tokyo leads the league in swinging strike %, but Cairo leads the league in total strike%. At 39%, Jerusalem leads the league in % of their pitches that miss the strike zone. Of weird interest is Moscow, who's staff has thrown 385 foul balls--most in the league.

Fun eh?