ping ESPN, re: stat counting summaries

[QuikSand]

When a pitcher has allowed one earned run in the current outing, using "1 ER" is far more pleasing to the eye and digestible than "ER." I know you have a policy or something, but you're doing this one wrong, honest. Thanks.

[rowech]

Better than the completely incorrect .1 and .2 for thirds of an inning.

[MikeVic]

Originally Posted by rowech

Better than the completely incorrect .1 and .2 for thirds of an inning.

I never thought about that before, but that's completely messed up. How did it become a decimal value??

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

What's a better way to display it? Everyone knows what it means, we've just switched to mod 3 for that stat.

[cuervo72]

Certainly better than a 3 or 6 with a bar* over it.


* apparently called a vinculum

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by rowech

Better than the completely incorrect .1 and .2 for thirds of an inning.

Originally Posted by MikeVic

I never thought about that before, but that's completely messed up. How did it become a decimal value??

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

What's a better way to display it? Everyone knows what it means, we've just switched to mod 3 for that stat.

Don't look at it as "thirds of an inning."

Look at it as "innings pitched" followed by "outs recorded."

Kind of like how, at its most literal, sure, $3.69 might be 3 and 69/100 dollars, but when you look at it from a currency standpoint, it's three dollars, six dimes and nine pennies.

It's not the best comparison, I grant, but it makes sense viewed through that lens instead of trying to ascribe the .1 and .2 to thirds of an inning (which is, I know, how we refer to it in speech).

[MIJB#19]

Originally Posted by rowech

What's wrong with using a fraction for 1/3 and 2/3?

That's what Dutch news papers would use. As they don't post baseball box scores too often. Maybe it feels too European?

[Logan]

Originally Posted by rowech

What's wrong with using a fraction for 1/3 and 2/3? Sorry...this is the math teacher in me coming out but it drives me crazy that yes, everyone knows what it means, but it is completely wrong. Perhaps 4-1 or 4-2 instead.

Shouldn't the math teacher in you view those numbers as 3 and 2, respectively? . But yeah, it's only "wrong" if you're thinking of math. It's not math, it's displaying stats.

4.1 is much easier to display than 4 1/3 especially when it's coming in a series of numbers. And 4-1 can be tough to see in a line of "L 3-7, 4-1 IP, 6 ER, 4 K."

edit: Sack's "outs" reasoning is better.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Certainly better than a 3 or 6 with a bar* over it.


* apparently called a vinculum

I swear I learn a new thing every day at FOFC.

SI

[fantom1979]

I kinda wish ESPN (and others) would display it as 4.3IP or 4.7IP, just because it would be easier for me when I input it into excel to do stats work for my fantasy league. When they do it as 4.1 or 4.2, I have to do some conversions.

Realistically though, it has been displayed as 4.1 or 4.2 for as long as I remember, so I doubt that will change.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Why not just have a hidden column next to your IP column and run a formula that converts it automatically? That way you can enter it and forget about it. Just have all your "formula" columns point at the hidden one rather than the showing one.

[Samdari]

Originally Posted by rowech

this is the DECIMAL ONLY math teacher in me coming out but it drives me crazy that yes, everyone knows what it means, but it is completely wrong.

Dude, Mod 3 math is, indeed, still math. It is not, in fact, completely wrong.

[fantom1979]

Originally Posted by Vince, Pt. II

Why not just have a hidden column next to your IP column and run a formula that converts it automatically? That way you can enter it and forget about it. Just have all your "formula" columns point at the hidden one rather than the showing one.

This is almost exactly what I do....

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

When a pitcher has allowed one earned run in the current outing, using "1 ER" is far more pleasing to the eye and digestible than "ER." I know you have a policy or something, but you're doing this one wrong, honest. Thanks.

See, I disagree. It seems OK for ER, but I prefer something like "2-for-4, 2B, HR, 3 RBIs" over "2-for-4, 1 2B, 1 HR, 3 RBIs".

[Vince, Pt. II]

I think he's being specific to Earned Runs. I agree with you about your example, but simply 'ER' grates on my nerves.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Vince, Pt. II

I think he's being specific to Earned Runs. I agree with you about your example, but simply 'ER' grates on my nerves.

exactly

[QuikSand]

...and let's just steer clear of RBI vs. RBIs vs. RBI's, please.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

...and let's just steer clear of RBI vs. RBIs vs. RBI's, please.

Sorry. RsBI.

[MIJB#19]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Sorry. RsBI.

Don't you mean R(-s)BI?

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

When a pitcher has allowed one earned run in the current outing, using "1 ER" is far more pleasing to the eye and digestible than "ER." I know you have a policy or something, but you're doing this one wrong, honest. Thanks.

I see your point, QuikSand, and stated a bit less indignantly (with a reasonable acceptance of the intended good will of the act) I'd probably be inclined to agree with you.

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by fantom1979

I kinda wish ESPN (and others) would display it as 4.3IP or 4.7IP, just because it would be easier for me when I input it into excel to do stats work for my fantasy league. When they do it as 4.1 or 4.2, I have to do some conversions.

Realistically though, it has been displayed as 4.1 or 4.2 for as long as I remember, so I doubt that will change.

Just curious, why aren't you using a website? All of them are free now, so wouldn't that be easier?