THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

When to issue the intentional walk

By Tangotiger, 09:55 AM

Andy has an extended chart in The Book that tells you when you should issue a walk. Here’s an interactive online tool from Josh Kalk that likely does something similar. If someone wants to do a few comparisons between what Andy did and what Josh did, that’d be great. Here, Josh takes a look at a few cases in the playoffs. (Note: I think he may underestimate the win potential of the 3-1 count.)

• Sabermetrics • In-game_Strategy • THE_BOOK

#1 MGL (see all posts) 2007/10/16 (Tue) @ 12:59

I would like to see the batter/pitcher variable of GDP included in any model. I would think it is pretty important. Managers certainly think it is.

Even in “The Book” Andy mentions it as an afterthought which I wasn’t thrilled with.

#2 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2007/10/16 (Tue) @ 13:31

IIRC, Andy looked at it in the beginning, and then found that it wasn’t that important. I’ll have to reread it.

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When to issue the intentional walk

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