As MVP season rolls around, my mind has been fixated on statistical analysis, so I present for your consideration a stat that (to the best of my knowledge) has never been tracked before: Run Production Percentage.
For regulation leagues:
total run production (R+RBI-HR)
total plate appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SF+SH)
and simplified for our purposes:
total run production (R+RBI-HR)
total plate appearances (AB+SF+SH)
basically this number would represent how likely someone is to produce a run in any given at bat.
our numbers are a little sketchy (artificially high, since we don't accurately track our SFs and SHs), but here are our Season 1, Season 2 and career leaderboards:
Season 1 (minimum 70 at bats):
William Jackson: .720
Pat Kelley: .714
Dorian Peters: .706
Nick Warwick: .649
Peter Lauterborn: .619
Season 2 (minimum 60 at bats):
Will Jackson: .959
Nick Warwick: .732
Scott Leathers: .731
Carlos Escobar: .700
Pat Kelley: .683
Career (minumum 120 at bats):
Will Jackson: .820
Dorian Peters: .720
Pat Kelley: .702
Carlos Escobar: .685
Nick Warwick: .682
A new stat?
I have traked a simpler statistic, but similar idea. I call it "Total Runs Responsible"
You just take R + RBI - HR. The goal is not to get a percentage, but a way too see how significant a player is to a team. See, if Scott scores twice, drives in 3, and has a HR, his total would be 4. If his team won 6-3, it makes it clear that Scott was most responsible (on paper) for the team's prodcution that day (if everyone else had less).
Blah blah!
You just take R + RBI - HR. The goal is not to get a percentage, but a way too see how significant a player is to a team. See, if Scott scores twice, drives in 3, and has a HR, his total would be 4. If his team won 6-3, it makes it clear that Scott was most responsible (on paper) for the team's prodcution that day (if everyone else had less).
Blah blah!