Where to find sabermetric stats

You can see the standings and results from any date in baseball history. You can see this stuff online, or, if you have computer data-manipulation skills, you can download it and work with it yourself. You can load the data into Excel and write macros to manipulate it. Or, you can write programs to analyze it; I use Visual Basic, but any language will do. Not all of baseball history is available on Retrosheet — yet. The volunteers are still working on it, though.

Want to help? Click here for details. For now, you can see game-by-game summaries from on. You can see box scores for more than 90 percent of games since Some years even include pitch-by-pitch data, in terms of ball, strike, foul. The result of literally tens of thousands of hours of volunteer labor, Retrosheet is the greatest sabermetric resource ever. Central Ave. They actually scored runs. The estimate is off by 22 runs, which is fairly typical.

Why is Runs Created important? Why do we need RC if we already know the Orioles scored runs? Using the basic RC formula, we can estimate that if a given major league team had a batting line like Pujols did, it would score about runs. That batting line would comprise about 15 games, which gives about 10 runs per game.

We can compare Pujols to Joe Mauer, or Adam Lind, or Alex Rodriguez, to help inform our conclusions on how much each contributed to his team, or even to our arguments about which player deserves the MVP award. Runs Created is one of the most famous of the statistics used to evaluate offense. But which is the best? Relative to standard stats, advanced stats are considered more complex and esoteric. But in recent years, advanced stats have become a greater part of the mainstream conversation.

In this section, you will find a breakdown of baseball's advanced stats. When put in the proper context, the metrics defined below can help fans hone their understanding of the game of baseball.