July 18, 20179 yr 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....
July 18, 20179 yr 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.
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