RESEARCH: Low frequency events and pitching performance
Jan 23 2013
Most fantasy baseball managers know how to evaluate the standard statistics like ERA and WHIP that make up scoring categories.
At BaseballHQ.com, we emphasize skills like Dominance (Dom, k/9) and Command (Cmd, k/bb), because they indicate underlying skill and are less influenced by factors outside a pitcher’s control.
However, even Dom and Cmd are becoming more widely known, so we constantly look for new insights to regain competitive advantage. For example, in a recent Starting Pitchers Buyers Guide, BHQ columnist Steven Nickrand explored SPs’ swinging strike rates as a way of forecasting Dom surgers and faders.
In that spirit of looking for new indicators, this article explores the impact of low frequency events like wild...
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