Involved in a close game and your opponent has a man on 1st in the 9th inning? That being said, if you really feel like over-managing some time, keep this data in mind. And, really, saving 6 or 11 points on the batting average against? Either way, they’re not even radical improvements over a standard A pitcher. But the A&B bears down when it counts more. So, yes, the A&C was slightly better overall. 006 on batting average versus an A pitcher.

I’ve been doing some number crunching for a project and, weighting for the frequency of base situations as well as how often different PRNs appear in the environment I’m researching, the A&B saved only. So this also tilts things even more in favor of the A&B.

If a batter card has a total of five 8s and 9s on their card, three of those will be 8s and two will be 9s. To summarize, the A&C is better at keeping men off base while the A&B is better at keeping men from scoring.Īlso note that a PRN of 8 appears slightly more frequently than a PRN of 9. It’s just keeping men from getting on base more often. The A&C advantage, while it occurs more often, isn’t saving runs. In other words, he’s taking away hits that would lead to runs. And it’s not really close.įor one, the A&B has the advantage when there are runners on 3rd. Now all of a sudden it looks like an A&C is actually worth more than A&B. So the total frequency of situations in which we have “Advantage: A&C” is 18% compared to 8% for “Advantage: A&B”. So far in 2015, for example, plate appearances have occurred with the following frequencies of base situations. The A&B pitcher is more effective, right? He’s worth the out in 3 different situations versus just 1 for the A&C.įor one, the frequency with which these situations occur. Here they are, using the latest version of boards that I own. It turns out there are only a handful of situations where a hit comes up in the A column and either an A&C or A&B is going to turn that into an out. We’ve already said that a B is better than a C, so you would assume that an A&B is better than an A&C, right? Similarly, for an A&B pitcher, you’d check A and, if it’s a hit, use the B column.

If a hit is indicated, use the C column instead. To resolve a plate appearance with an A&C pitcher on the mound, you do the following: There’s no play result number (PRN) that comes up in which you’ll say “Oh, wait! There’s a D pitcher on the mound so that’s an out, not a hit!” We know that a Grade D pitcher is the lowest of the low. One of the things that I was looking at was the difference between different pitching grades in APBA Baseball’s Basic Game. Something which I’ll share with everybody probably sometime next year if all goes well. I’ve been working on something quite a bit the last month or so.

Apba baseball pitcher grade calculator