Need Rookie Help
I have been wanting to post this for a while and I never got around to it. I think this is a good idea for us that know computers, but don't know the "tricks" to it. Also I wanted to know some verbage so when some people here are talking, I know what they are saying. In bullet form
- how to post a link to an article
- how to post a picture from your computer
- how to post a picture from the internet
- how to make something in italics
- how to make something bold
- what is WISP?
- what is win probablity added? where does it come from?
- There seem to be another dimension to stats other than your standard ERA AVG SB BB etc. I think thats the WISP and OPS etc. Help me on that.
THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!!
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This one helped me
I also like how this one outlines the guidelines for commenting.
by Just Rope Ball on Oct 20, 2006 7:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The formatting guide is good
- Just copy and paste the URL from your browser bar. Highlight, copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) into your post. It should just directly link from there.
- To post a picture, you need to first download it to an image hosting site. I use Photobucket. This is really easy - normally just set up an account, click "Browse" on your album, find the file that you saved to your computer, and click "Upload." After that, to put it in your post, you'd do this:
- Normally, you'd need to follow the same procedure for pix that you've saved from the Internet. To link directly to an image on someone else's page uses their bandwidth and charges them extra money. It annoys most webmasters and is considered a cyber no-no.
- For italics, use the hyphen key (by the parentheses) but press shift, so it looks like this: _ . Enclose the text you want italicized inside two of these, and it'll look like this.
- Same for bold, except you use the asterisk key: () to make it look like this.
- Can't help you on WISP, but OPS is *O*n-Base *P*ercentage plus *S*lugging Percentage. For example, King Albert's On-Base Percentage is .431. His Slugging Percentage is .671. Add them together and you get his OPS, which is 1.102. An OPS above 1.000 is considered very good.
by Scarlet the Cardinal on Oct 20, 2006 11:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Try to help
- What is WISP?
I don't know, but you may be thinking of w/risp, which just means "with runners in scoring position." Usually, you'll talk about a player's AVG or SLG split for w/risp or vs. lefthanded pitchers. That information can be looked up at ESPN, Yahoo, or MLB.com—for example, Albert Pujols' split page is here. There are splits for all sorts of stuff, of varying value, including by count, with runners at certain bases and with so many outs, or even against a certain style of pitcher, like a power pitcher or a finesse pitcher, as classified by a metric that counts traditional things like walks, strikeouts, and flyballs. Some splits are more useful than others: w/risp probably is; vs. left definitely is.
- What is win probablity added? Where does it come from?
You break down every game in the retrosheet database by game situation—such and such inning, so many outs, runners on certain bases, runs on the board. Then you figure out the percentage that each game situation results in the team winning. This gives you a relatively uninteresting table of percentages. For example, a situation where you have men on first and second in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, your chance of winning is about 90%. But then when Albert Pujols hit the home run off Brad Lidge last NLCS game 5, the percentage of the time that the Astros win the game in the situation they then found themselves in had dropped to something around 20%. Those changes in winning percentage by a player changing the game situation is the WPA, the winning percentage added. In that case, El Hombre added about -70 percentage points to Houston's probability of winning the game. I know that by looking at the fangraphs.com page for that game. Obviously, building a WP database and producing graphs of it is enough work that the people maintaining that site are able to sell advertising to support their efforts. Too much work for most of us to do ourselves...
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