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Thursday, March 31, 2011

More changes at Fangraphs

By Tangotiger

1. He added “Shutdowns” and “Meltdowns” to the player pages. Here’s Gossage. It’s based on WPA, and I think the threshholds used were +/- .060 wins.

2. He added “ERA+”, but with the correct calculation (player divided by league). He calls is “ERA-” (i.e., lower is better), and he also does it for FIP. Here’s Pedro.

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