Project for Smitty...

[engie]

Go through the situation inning by inning breakdown of runs scored when we bunt vs runs scored when we don't for us again over the last 2 season... Along with the difference in 2013. I'll see to it that the numbers get to our coaching staff, so they at least have that information at their disposal. That has been the best/most glaring way you've ever presented it....

[maroonmania]

There have actually been innings where we had base runners and didn't bunt? Wow, who knew?

[State82]

The sample size for the "didn't bunt" stat will be minuscule

[maroonmania]

The sample size for the "didn't bunt" stat will be minuscule

Yep, and would be cases primarily where we didn't get our first base runner in that inning until we already had 2 outs.

[BulldogBear]

There have actually been innings where we had base runners and didn't bunt? Wow, who knew?

Made me chuckle.

Really look forward to these metrics

[War Machine Dawg]

Made me chuckle.

Really look forward to these metrics

Hey Bear, GoT is returning soon. Methinks it's time for you to make a return to Bovine Scat and expand on some of your theories. Baseball clearly isn't going to keep us entertained and we aren't going to have a hoops coaching search to follow.

[BulldogBear]

Hey Bear, GoT is returning soon. Methinks it's time for you to make a return to Bovine Scat and expand on some of your theories. Baseball clearly isn't going to keep us entertained and we aren't going to have a hoops coaching search to follow.

Perhaps. I'm PO'd at GRRM right now. If he'd put out the next blinkin' book, which will likely confirm or debunk several of my theories, I wouldn't have so many tangents running around in my head. The light hurts my eyes***

[War Machine Dawg]

Perhaps. I'm PO'd at GRRM right now. If he'd put out the next blinkin' book, which will likely confirm or debunk several of my theories, I wouldn't have so many tangents running around in my head. The light hurts my eyes***

Can't disagree there. He needs to get his old, fat ass in gear and get out Winds of Winter. I've already resigned myself to the fact that the show is going to finish ahead of the books.

[engie]

Perhaps. I'm PO'd at GRRM right now. If he'd put out the next blinkin' book, which will likely confirm or debunk several of my theories, I wouldn't have so many tangents running around in my head. The light hurts my eyes***

I think his story is just infinitely expanding... He's built this whole world in such great detail(I've never found even remotely similar interest in a fantasy series even though I love fantasy stuff) that the complexity has grown to the point that there is just no satisfying manner in which to tie up the loose ends. It's such an organic story with so many players. Even when he quits writing about all of this at the "conclusion" -- I don't see any way that "The Game of Thrones" isn't still being played. Targaryen dragons surviving and supporting the IT is the only true shift in the power balance that could give a logical(and logically enduring) conclusion IMO...

[Tbonewannabe]

Can't disagree there. He needs to get his old, fat ass in gear and get out Winds of Winter. I've already resigned myself to the fact that the show is going to finish ahead of the books.

He supposedly has 2 people helping him now try to stay ahead of the show. Of course book 6 was supposed to come out last year I think.

[Dawg Corps]

Smitty, can you also run some sort of analysis on whether Game of Thrones and MSU baseball are even remotely interrelated? Please provide results in the form of a white paper. Thanks.

[Smitty]

Nothing will ever touch 2012.... Nothing.

In sec play we got the lead off on first and bunted 26 times... Scored just six times. Only one run each time.

[BulldogBear]

Smitty, can you also run some sort of analysis on whether Game of Thrones and MSU baseball are even remotely interrelated? Please provide results in the form of a white paper. Thanks.

A white paper is too clean of a media on which to present said analyis report. Surely it needs a blood stain or two and a doodle of a bat and two baseballs in one corner. For GOT to really own its portion of the analysis it would probably behoove the preparer to arrange the bat and balls in a particular way.

[Ralph]

Nothing will ever touch 2012.... Nothing.

In sec play we got the lead off on first and bunted 26 times... Scored just six times. Only one run each time.

Be curious for same info for 2013 and 2014. I've never seen this cohen stat, but that is embarrassingly awful.

[messageboardsuperhero]

Nothing will ever touch 2012.... Nothing.

In sec play we got the lead off on first and bunted 26 times... Scored just six times. Only one run each time.

Insane. That probably doesn't even count the number of times we got ourselves out by failing to get a bunt down.

So many wasted outs...

[War Machine Dawg]

Insane. That probably doesn't even count the number of times we got ourselves out by failing to get a bunt down.

So many wasted outs...

I'd bet Smitty has that somewhere. And yes, that number has to be shockingly high.

[shoeless joe]

What is GoT?

[Tbonewannabe]

Game of Thrones

[Dawg61]

Nothing will ever touch 2012.... Nothing.

In sec play we got the lead off on first and bunted 26 times... Scored just six times. Only one run each time.

Wow. There's no way Cohen can defend it anymore. Problem is Cohen is the most stubborn bastard ever so what can be done?

[Smitty]

I looked at the innings which our leadoff man got on first base in conference play for analysis. I looked at what the outcomes where when we immediately followed a leadoff one-bagger (Hit, HBP, BB, IBB, etc) man on 1st 0 out. I knew it was bad, but nothing like this.

With man on 1st, 0 out. WE BUNT
Occurrences: 26
Score a run: 6
# of runs : 6

We bunted in that position 26 times, only scoring 6 times, one run each inning. That is 23% which is off the charts bad yielding .2 runs/inning. Thats after having a man on 1st and no outs

With a man on 1st, 0 out. WE DONT BUNT
Occurrences: 66
Score a run: 36
# of runs: 77

We didnt bunt in that situation 66 times, scoring 36 times, with many occurrences of multiple runs. That is 55% of innings we score yielding 1.12 runs/inning, A FULL RUN higher than bunting in the same situation.

55% > 23% of innings we score
1.12 > 0.2 runs per inning

Say what you want about me and this issue. These statistics don't lie.

My post from Sixpack on May 11th, 2012.