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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Defensive Indifference

By Tangotiger, 09:27 AM

Silly: you don’t get a SB credit for it.

Correct: you do get a BB credit for pitching indifference (IBB).

It’s the same thing!  What they should be doing is counting the defensive indifference as an official category, AND report on it exactly as they do the IBB.  Thanks to Retro and B-R.com, we don’t have to rely on “official” categories anymore.  We can report it exactly as we need to.  And I report it as:
SB, DI, BK, WP, PB, CS-safe, PK-safe, CS-out, PK-out
all mutually exclusive.

That’s the job of the data recorder.  The data analyst can pick and choose how he wants to combine all that.

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