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re: Quotes from Eddie Smith on his Philosophy: From Cody Worsham
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:21 pm to TigerLunatik
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:21 pm to TigerLunatik
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The first week? I think you're giving the Rant too much credit. It will be in the first 3 innings of the first game.
The football melts are insane but the baseball ones take the cake for me. People will freak the frick out during the 1st inning of the season. I think it's worse because in football every game matters a shite ton. In the grand scheme of things 1 single game in a college baseball season means very little.
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Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:25 pm to TigerChief10
It's the same in basketball. You would think people would learn after all of the comeback wins over the last few years, but they don't. Then, even though Paul almost always has his teams playing the best at the end of the year, we have people declaring that we won't make a regional in March or April. I will never get it.
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:37 pm to CottonWasKing
OBP superior to slugging pct
Bucknell U study in favor of OPS
One can make their own interpretations of the data but, as I said, there is significant support for either or both of these metrics as better predictors of run scoring potential versus batting average alone
ETA: it appears OPS is indeed the preferred metric but both OBP and OPS are superior to slugging pct alone
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Of that 1.5-run increase, the regression estimates that 0.9 runs come from the OBP surge, but just 0.6 from the Slugging, even though the team’s slugging percentage actually increased by more than its OBP
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This tells us that our OPS* stat, utilizing a weighted version of slugging percentage, is the most linearly correlated stat to runs scored, though not any more significantly that the conven
Bucknell U study in favor of OPS
One can make their own interpretations of the data but, as I said, there is significant support for either or both of these metrics as better predictors of run scoring potential versus batting average alone
ETA: it appears OPS is indeed the preferred metric but both OBP and OPS are superior to slugging pct alone
This post was edited on 1/24/20 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:40 pm to Dizz
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What all hitting approaches in college boil down to “hit the fastball”.
He’s saying the opposite of that fwiw.
Posted on 1/24/20 at 10:43 pm to MOT
That’s an interesting interpretation
Posted on 1/24/20 at 11:14 pm to Lester Earl
Are you a fan of the “don’t fall behind in the count because it’s the end of the world, we have to hit fastballs and strikes early in the count no matter what” approach we’ve deployed for most of the last decade?
Posted on 1/25/20 at 12:38 am to CottonWasKing
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But that’s not what it’s all about. OPS is what it’s all about. OBP means nothing if there is no one to bring those guys in.
If you honor the game properly and excel at high level base running, the OBP is where it’s at.
If you don’t respect that most important (to me at least) part of the game and hope to strike gold with bigger hitters, then OPS is where it’s at.
IMO, you can build the former more consistently and easier than the latter.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 12:39 am to Meauxjeaux
Oh and someone call CPM and tell him all that.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 1:07 am to Meauxjeaux
I think stealing bases is huge in the college game is huge because it creates so much pressure. Great base stealers and high OPS ftw
Posted on 1/25/20 at 1:16 am to tigerclaw10
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I think stealing bases is huge in the college game is huge because it creates so much pressure. Great base stealers and high OPS ftw
Not if we are focused on analytics
Posted on 1/25/20 at 1:34 am to TigerLunatik
Yeah, people just think they melt during football season. Just show up at any baseball bpb when we aren’t winning in the first two innings and see how many people are ready to fire all the coaches and bench all the players. Lol. Hopefully basketball and baseball can keep up what football started this year but I will enjoy the season like I have every year and thank God I was born in La with purple and gold flowing through my veins. I feel sorry for people born around College Station.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 2:55 am to LSUTigers_00
quote::mindblown:
and more runs means more wins
Posted on 1/25/20 at 3:04 am to Yippie_Ky_yae
It's still the first thing they do at practice. Cabrera led the way tonight.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 3:04 am to CDawson
Why isn't scoring runs the number one goal.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 3:53 am to CottonWasKing
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All I’ve wanted recently is for LSU to show a modern approach at the plate. It seems like we’re getting there.
There is no RPO in baseball. You step to a plate the same way Babe Ruth did years ago
Posted on 1/25/20 at 4:32 am to GeauxGutsy
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There is no RPO in baseball. You step to a plate the same way Babe Ruth did years ago
Yikes.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 6:00 am to LSUTigers_00
This is refreshing. MOT I know you and i have complained about our approach at the plate for years. The 7 pitch innings really grind my gears.
Gross production average is a metric used to combine OPS and OBP with a higher weight towards OBP. Ive looked at it for a couple years now and like it.
Gross production average is a metric used to combine OPS and OBP with a higher weight towards OBP. Ive looked at it for a couple years now and like it.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 7:20 am to GeauxGutsy
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There is no RPO in baseball. You step to a plate the same way Babe Ruth did years ago
Well someone has never heard of launch angles and analytics
Posted on 1/25/20 at 7:51 am to LSUTigers_00
Wait but I could have sworn that CPM refuses to adapt to new baseball, the game has passed him by, and he was the Les Miles of college baseball? Sounds to me that he is more than willing to adapt.
In all seriousness unlike what the rant narrative is CPM has proven that he is not afraid to change. He has changed his philosophy of how to build a team. He has already done that by going from recruiting for the old bats, then recruiting for new park in Omaha, then now recruiting for new balls in that park.
Now he is adapting his team’s philosophy at the plate it seems which has been pretty much the same since he arrived in Baton Rouge. This is a really good thing.
In all seriousness unlike what the rant narrative is CPM has proven that he is not afraid to change. He has changed his philosophy of how to build a team. He has already done that by going from recruiting for the old bats, then recruiting for new park in Omaha, then now recruiting for new balls in that park.
Now he is adapting his team’s philosophy at the plate it seems which has been pretty much the same since he arrived in Baton Rouge. This is a really good thing.
Posted on 1/25/20 at 8:22 am to Hester Carries
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Not if we are focused on analytics
There’s analytics for base running too.
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