Article: Game Thread: Twins v Yankees, 7/17@7:10pm CT

[Craig Arko]

 

  On 7/18/2017 at 6:00 PM, sampleSizeOfOne said:

It requires more thought to set up well, but something should be possible with a voicemail message...

"Uranus... no, we didn't rin' you. U ran' us."

That either clever original?

Hmmm....

[ashbury]

  On 7/18/2017 at 5:56 PM, ThejacKmp said:

You're also right in saying that it's hard to figure out how to do it. Every solo HR is an RBI but wouldn't be calculated as one in a runners-on-base thing. I was reading about a stat called RE24 that I've never heard of before. Might be worth reading about.

Although I suggested an avenue or two to explore, ultimately I think trying to tweak RBI into a rate stat is a dead end. I like WPA. Win Probability Added deals with every plate appearance, and it covers edge cases like the 3-single run I previously brought up or your solo homer scenario. A game thread isn't the right place to keep going with such a tangent, so I'll stop here, but wanted to tie up the loose thread.

 

/ edit - I typed before reading the rest of the thread, and RE24 approaches the question a useful way too. It's not situational, if I understand right, so it gives as much credit to a final run on either side of a 10-1 laugher as a 2-1 walkoff score, which is also a criticism of raw RBI.

 

/ edit^2 - OK, so that means I didn't stop when I said I would stop.

[Squirrel]

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