Interesting stat of the day

[RonCo]

After reading stuff on reliever usage in the MLB these days, I got interested in how often (and which) BBA teams use their bullpen the most. So I did some view sorting in OOTP and transcribed the data, then noted which teams were playoff teams. No idea if it has any value, but I thought the results were very interesting...

Here's the Johnson League:

Team	IP	SP	RP	SP%	RP%	PO
New Orleans Crawdads	1437.33	1020.67	416.66	71.0%	29.0%	x
Las Vegas Hustlers	1460	1007	453	69.0%	31.0%	x
Phoenix Talons	1440.67	975	465.67	67.7%	32.3%	x
Rockville Pikemen	1457.33	984.67	472.66	67.6%	32.4%	x
Nashville Goats	1439.33	941	498.33	65.4%	34.6%
Huntsville Phantoms	1433.33	926.67	506.66	64.7%	35.3%
Wichita Aviators	1460.67	936.33	524.34	64.1%	35.9%
Atlantic City Gamblers	1451.67	929.33	522.34	64.0%	36.0%
Mexico City Aztecs	1465.67	933.67	532	63.7%	36.3%	x
Jacksonville Hurricanes	1444	903.33	540.67	62.6%	37.4%	x
San Antonio Outlaws	1451	874.67	576.33	60.3%	39.7%
Montreal Blazers	1438.33	866.33	572	60.2%	39.8%
Louisville Sluggers	1453.33	847.67	605.66	58.3%	41.7%
Charm City Jimmies	1449	837	612	57.8%	42.2%
Brooklyn Robins	1457.67	612	845.67	42.0%	58.0%

I suppose it's not overly surprising that the top four teams are the most heavily reliant on their starters. But both Mexico City and Jacksonville dropped in the 36-37% reliever usage. And note Brooklyn, who juggled players around a lot and competed on a shoestring, but used relievers for a bulk of their innings.

Here's the Frick:

Team	IP	SP	RP	SP%	RP%	PO
Seattle Storm	1463	1032.33	430.67	70.6%	29.4%
California Crusaders	1458.67	1009	449.67	69.2%	30.8%	x
San Fernando Bears	1439	965	474	67.1%	32.9%	x
Edmonton Jackrabbits	1453.33	971	482.33	66.8%	33.2%	x
Calgary Pioneers	1447.67	934	513.67	64.5%	35.5%	x
Hawaii Tropics	1444.67	926.33	518.34	64.1%	35.9%	x
Omaha Hawks	1455.67	926.67	529	63.7%	36.3%
Vancouver Mounties	1449.33	908.67	540.66	62.7%	37.3%
Long Beach Surfers	1469.33	910.67	558.66	62.0%	38.0%
Des Moines Kernels	1426.67	852.67	574	59.8%	40.2%
Valencia Stars	1465.67	869.67	596	59.3%	40.7%
Boise Spuds	1441.33	855	586.33	59.3%	40.7%
Twin Cities River Monsters	1460.67	862.33	598.34	59.0%	41.0%
Yellow Springs Nine	1467.33	800.33	667	54.5%	45.5%	x
Madison Wolves	1426	622.67	803.33	43.7%	56.3%

Seattle leaned on their starters harder than anyone, and almost made the show. The next five SP-heavy teams made the playoffs. Only my own Yellow Springs club was on the lower portion of the SP curve, and still won games--and (he says while he can), we won more games than anyone. Madison was Brooklyn-like at 56% of innings coming in relief (but not Brooklyn-like in that they were not in contention after maybe half-way through the season.

Kinda interesting, eh?

[Rubaboo]

Interesting. And this was abnormal for me in that I uncapped my starters. I normally keep them under 100 pitch limits at all times.

[jleddy]

I believe the Angels this year are going to be the first team to have more reliever innings than starter innings (and also the first team not to have a pitcher record more than 100 IP!). This happened because the lack of quality of starts and starters. I know Brooklyn achieved this on purpose based on the cyclone method. Haven’t looked at if Madison achieved it out of necessity or as a strategy.

[crobillard]

yeah I hate my bullpen. Even my favorite pitcher in my bullpen, Huerta, blows a ton of saves. As a rule though, I tend to be more interested in throwing 10 mil at a starter than 10 mil on a reliever. Maybe unless that reliever was Peter Grady.

[udlb58]

yeah I hate my bullpen. Even my favorite pitcher in my bullpen, Huerta, blows a ton of saves. As a rule though, I tend to be more interested in throwing 10 mil at a starter than 10 mil on a reliever. Maybe unless that reliever was Peter Grady.

I am so happy to have him locked up at $7m per. I know he isn't the most talented RP out there, but I don't think any 2 relievers are as valuable as Peter is to us.

It isn't any surprise that we relied more heavily on the bullpen than any other JL playoff team (and our RP usage probably should have been closer to YS9)

[Rubaboo]

I'm trying to get Wagner's usage figured out so that he can hopefully be similar to Grady. A guy like that is so valuable.

[udlb58]

I'm trying to get Wagner's usage figured out so that he can hopefully be similar to Grady. A guy like that is so valuable.

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you...

[Rubaboo]

I'm trying to get Wagner's usage figured out so that he can hopefully be similar to Grady. A guy like that is so valuable.

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you...

To get 5 WAR out of a reliever it might be worth it.