re: Analyzing The Dip in Batting Average in SEC Play

Yea baw, all the numbers just declined after this weekend. You are all over it.

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Skenes affect + poor defense

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That doesn’t explain the overall fundamentals of team pitching stats being better than the team ERA unless Skenes’ fundamentals were far superior to his ERA. Defense impacts unearned runs and BA. The first doesn’t affect ERA and team BA allowed is pretty good. I’m not suggesting the 6.06 ERA isn’t skewed by Skenes. I’m suggesting that the fundamentals for the rest of the staff don’t translate to an 8.45 ERA.

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They look about right to me, considering Skenes skews all of those numbers. I’d bet the rest balloon without him. Especially free runners. Either way; they aren’t in great shape going forward

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I’m not suggesting that the fundamentals for the rest of the pitching staff are good. I’m only suggesting they aren’t 8.45 ERA bad.

ETA: The rest of the staff has a conference WHIP of 1.73, but still one of the lowest HR/9 and more Ks than IP. Missouri’s staff also has a WHIP of 1.73 with almost twice as many HR/9 and an ERA almost a full run better than the rest of the staff at 7.58. Ole Miss is a little worse at 1.75 with even more than twice the HR/9 and an ERA of 7.11. A&M is also at 1.73 and about the same HR/9 as the rest of the staff with an ERA of 7.04. Georgia’s WHIP is a little better at 1.7 but their HR/9 are almost 50% worse with an ERA of 6.93. Auburn’s WHIP is much worse at 1.89 with about the same HR/9 with an ERA of 6.92. The fundamentals for the rest of the staff are better than or equal to all those teams suggesting they should have an ERA more like 6.9 or better, not 8.45. It’s still awful but not as awful.

LSU’s whip without Paul Skenes is 1.72 and that doesn’t even factor in the 25 HBP batters.

That’s atrocious

Just not sure once you get to that level of bad that you can be unlucky. You are just bad & kinda create your own luck. But I get it

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Those teams had far more of them.

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Those teams didn’t bunt for shite. We already went over this.

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Look at the doubles and triples and average during the NCAAs

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So hitting a lot of XBHs makes someone a “grinder”? So we must have a ton of those right now. Glad you cleared that up

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Besides all of that all of his teams until 1996 and those after 1998 didn’t have all the “power” due to the bats. They were average hitters.

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Ok

Like I said. You want Mainieri’s coaching with Jay’s roster. You also have a pretty poor memory

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mean remove the best two players from every lineup and let me know what their SEC average is.

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If you take away every SEC teams 2 best hitters, I bet your “SEC median” numbers plummet.

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What’s the SEC average if you factor out the top 2 batters on each SEC team? This stat is extremely disingenuous.

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If you take the best 2 hitters out of the lineup we would be much lower.

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What are the league averages without the top two hitters on each team?

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fair comparison is to take out the best two hitters for every sec team and compare to LSU without crews and white.

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but the fact that you're comparing LSU's lineup without their two best hitters to the rest of the league's full lineup makes zero sense

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So how about you go take out the 2 best hitters from every SEC team, then re calculate the averages

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you remove the top 2 hitters off any team the stats will drop. Hhmmm I wonder what happens when you take off the worst 2 hitters? This is dumb.

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why don't you remove the top 2 hitters from every lineup and then run the SEC averages

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Sometimes these things have a way of writing themselves:

Tommy white: 4 hits

Rest of team: 3 hits