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Friday, April 04, 2008
The Lineup Spectrum
By Tangotiger, 12:20 PM
Inspired by a post Don Malcolm on Retrolist, I queried all the Retro event files, and counted the % of times that a particular position batted 3rd, 4th, 5th and subtracted from that the times they were batting 7th, 8th or 9th:
-1.000 1
-0.449 2
-0.384 6
-0.207 4
0.116 5
0.156 8
0.417 7
0.423 9
0.552 10
0.617 3
This means that 1B batted in the heart of the order 61.7% more times than they batted at the bottom of the order (70.4% minus 8.7%).
The order resembles the Defense Spectrum.