The hottest statistic I\u2019ve always put forth that the proper Triple Crown in In fact, the growingly more sophisticated gaming public is According to Cy McCormick of Many of the cutting edge handicappers they monitor take the Of course if a pitcher does better relative to the rest of McCormick says the top services parse the information to If there is one consideration that has seen some \u201cFirst it was supposed to be As in any sport, the elite gamblers look beyond mere Joe Duffy during his Cadillac Club scorephone days developed <\/body> Joe Duffy (www.OffshoreInsiders.com) The hottest statistic among baseball handicappers utilized in evaluating offenses is on base percentage plus slugging percentage (OPS). This is not a new statistic among sharpies, and in fact was overlooked for a few decades by baseball itself. I first heard about it in the mid-1970s when Steven Mann, a statistician for … Continue reading New Stats Coming to the Forefront in Baseball Handicapping<\/span>
\namong baseball handicappers utilized in evaluating offenses <\/span>is on base
\npercentage plus slugging percentage (OPS). This is not a new statistic among
\nsharpies, and in fact was overlooked for a few decades by baseball itself. I
\nfirst heard about it in the mid-1970s when Steven Mann, a statistician for the
\nHouston Astros, was touting said numerator on a radio sports talk show I was
\nlistening to. I employed and tested this statistic to capture a few
\nStrat-o-Matic championships in my formative years. Who says youth is wasted on
\nthe young?
\nbaseball should be on base percentage, slugging average and runs produced.
\nfinally being noticed by the masses.
\nfinally paying additional attention to offensive statistics.
\nQ. Public used to throw his money away simply betting little more than just
\nstarting pitcher\u2019s ERA statistics with an extra emphasis on a hurler\u2019s last
\nthree starts.
\nthe online sports betting syndicate, the hot gauge now for pitchers is
\ncomparing his batting average against (OAV) overall against to his OAV with
\nballs in play.
\ntwo quoted stats and compare it to the league average to find disparities.
\nbatting average against ranks much higher than his batting average against with
\nballs in play, he is pitching better than his stats because the fielders behind
\nhim are not playing as well as they should be.\u201d
\nthe league with balls in play than he does overall, the supposition among the
\navant-garde gamblers is that the pitcher has benefited from good fortune. Hence
\nrough days lay ahead for the hurler.
\ntheir exact liking in their own private databases, but that Yahoo! Sports
\n(sports.yahoo.com) does the best job of any free public site comparing and
\ncontrasting that day\u2019s pitchers\u2019 stats to both the league average and league
\nleader. <\/span>
\ndepreciation in value recently, it\u2019s the ground ball to fly ball ratio (GB
\nthan fly ball pitchers, but the statistic is no longer the silver bullet data
\nall but guaranteeing impending doom.
\njuiced balls then we realized it was juiced players,\u201d says Jerry Malcolm of <\/span>
\npoisonous now that the power numbers are stabilizing.\u201d
\nnumbers-crunchers. An uber-popular book and arguably the Bible for scrutinizing
\nand exploiting baseball statistics is \u201cMoneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair
\nGame\u201d by Michael Lewis. Oh how true that title is for the gambler who masters
\nthe mathematical art. <\/p>\n
\nthe reputation as the top baseball underdog handicapper in the business.
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