Monday, August 10, 2009

More graphs!

I had to do it... Here we go. National League wins vs bunts and American League wins vs bunts. After I saved the American League bunt, graph, I tweaked it a bit by updating the run total. Anyways, here is the graph for wins versus bunts for each league.


The new equation for the American League is .117x + 18.83. The leagues had to be split because, generally, the National League bunts more with pitchers. Let's take a look at the AL equation though. The lowest and highest Sac Bunt totals are the Orioles with 9 and the Mariners with 46. Wow. Plugging those numbers into the equation, the Orioles should have -84 wins. Wow. The Mariners on the other hand should have 232 wins. Yikes. This obviously hasn't happened, though the Orioles are pretty close to that -84 total. More practically, let's put the top and bottom wins in the equation. The Yankees have 69 wins, and the Royals have 43 wins. Plugging those numbers in, they should have 27 and 24 wins, respectively.
What does all of this mean? SACRIFICE BUNTING IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT TO THE SEASON LONG SUCCESS OF A BASEBALL TEAM. Not that I am speaking to anyone in particular.

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