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Monday, January 17, 2011

LOB% video

By Tangotiger

Fun video… if otherwise inaccurate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFArD4tffk

LOB% is dependent on OBP and to a lesser extent wOBA. If you take the best pitchers according to say FIP and the worst according to FIP, you will find the LOB% will be much higher for the good pitchers than the bad ones. This is unlike say BABIP which has a much smaller relationship to the talent level of pitchers and so in that case we can say it is mostly random variation.

(27) Comments • 2011/01/18 • Sabermetrics • School

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