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Friday, May 07, 2010

Reader Mail of the Week: RE24

By Tangotiger, 11:03 AM

My answers below the fold:

Hi Tom,

I think the RE24 stat pretty much says it all in terms of measuring offensive performance. Very impressive.

I’ve tried to learn more about it and have a few questions I can’t find answers to:

1 - How are errors dealt with? Does a player get credit for advancing himself/runners on an error the same as a hit? Does the erred player or pitcher take the loss in RE?

2 - When a player steals a base, does he get creditted? Does the pitcher or catcher get docked? If the hitter drives in the base stealer, does the base stealer’s share any added RE or does all of the added RE go towards the batter after the steal? Same with Caught Stealing…

3 - For non groundout force double plays, is the base runner tasked with any loss of RE?

4 - And lastly, Couldn’t RE24 be adjusted at end of year to show the exact expectancies that occured in that single season by itself, instead of using broader averages? A yearly adjustment would keep all RE24 numbers in direct correalation with the actual season they performed in.

Thanks again for all the work.

Jason

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