S25 Sabermetric Stats

I'd first like to add my "getting to know the owners" paragraph:  Matt, age 32, live in the suburbs of Chicago.  I teach high school math and am the head math team coach at my school.  I coached football for 8 years, but that became too time-consuming.  I won GD Survivor 11, thanks to Arfy's alliance turning on him!  Favorite teams: Bears, White Sox, Blackhawks, Bulls, and DePaul basketball.

As you can see, I like numbers, so now it is time for me to turn into Horvie James and calculate some Sabermetric statistics from Season 25 of Pine Tar.  I copy/pasted all season 25 statistics into an excel spreadsheet, wrote a few formulas for the stats, and sorted.  We are going to look at Runs Created, Secondary Average, and Stolen Base Runs Generated.  I'm not going to do any sort of heavy analysis on the stats...will just post and make a few comments/questions on each.  If you would like to investigate further or add your opinions on these statistics, feel free to do so in the comment section of the blog.

Runs Created (Top 25 from Season 25): estimates the number of runs a batter contributes to his team by combining on-base percentage and total bases.  Formula = OBP x TB.

Team Player Runs Created RBIs 1 Dover Armando Mota 143.172 127 2 Bos Matt Jaha 135.864 102 3 Bos Mateo Nunez 135.786 97 4 Durham Eric Lindsey 135.34 108 5 TB Rico Tatis 134.689 130 6 Durham Julio Navarro 129.97 88 7 Rochest Russell Powell 129.792 101 8 Fargo Tony Caballero 129.618 133 9 St. Lou Calvin Pecina 129.336 119 10 Durham Bengie Trajano 128.118 129 11 Sea Benny Navarro 125.296 65 12 Fargo Zip Sullivan 124.214 142 13 Texas Alan Wilson 122.512 76 14 Durham Billy Haynes 122.4 117 15 Durham Fred Inge 120.472 106 16 Col Spr Pedro Reyes 120.357 128 17 Philly Alex Velez 117.585 116 18 NO Sam Slotnick 116.61 111 19 Scranton Benito Rodriguez 116.184 84 20 Dover Kenneth Cedeno 115.456 120 21 Helena Jim Hawpe 112.582 81 22 Lou Vic Rijo 110.088 88 23 Alb Bert Heiserman 109.56 116 24 Indy Napoleon Hampton 109.02 95 25 Indy Brian Hume 108.19 95

Observations/Questions for further analysis:

-9 of these players had less than 100 RBIs, but "created" well over 100 runs.

-6 players had fewer Runs Created than RBIs.

-Average salary of the top-5 is $7,345,000.  #1 ranked Armando Mota is currently a free agent!

-Is there a range/formula of specific attributes that will result in players creating a high amount of runs?

Secondary Average (Top 25): evaluates the number of bases gained independent of batting average (through power, plate discipline, and speed).  Formula = [BB + (TB - H) + (SB - CS)]/AB.

	Team	Player	Secondary Avr	Batting Avr
1	NY Dam	Gus Justice	0.471698113	0.244
2	Milw	Vinny Hill	0.464367816	0.315
3	Bos	Matt Jaha	0.455284553	0.341
4	Fargo	Tony Caballero	0.432574431	0.296
5	Lou	Allen Gruber	0.43220339	0.274
6	Sea	Benny Navarro	0.428571429	0.286
7	Sea	Jo-jo Frandsen	0.422509225	0.288
8	TB	Rico Tatis	0.415481833	0.297
9	Helena	Rafael Hernandez	0.410029499	0.301
10	OKC	Carlos Zorrilla	0.409090909	0.269
11	Durham	Eric Lindsey	0.407265774	0.342
12	Fargo	Zip Sullivan	0.406451613	0.281
13	Col Spr	Pedro Reyes	0.403041825	0.302
14	NO	Sam Slotnick	0.401944895	0.277
15	San Juan	Charles Yoshii	0.399113082	0.304
16	Alb	Bert Heiserman	0.396984925	0.268
17	Scranton	Benito Rodriguez	0.396484375	0.314
18	Dover	John Pong	0.395789474	0.286
19	NO	Samuel Wallace	0.392523364	0.284
20	Col Spr	Juan Perez	0.390909091	0.330
21	Rochest	Kazuhiro Kuroda	0.388560158	0.290
22	Dover	Armando Mota	0.384615385	0.309
23	Texas	Alan Wilson	0.380097879	0.297
24	San Juan	John Davidson	0.375238095	0.291
25	Bos	Mateo Nunez	0.372191011	0.305

Observations/Questions for further analysis:

-Only 5 of these players had a batting average below .280.

-The #1 ranked player (Gus Justice) actually had the lowest batting average of the top-25 at .244, but does have an overall rating of 89 and earn a salary of 9,250,000.

-Three of the top-5 ranked players have an overall rating of 76 or below (Vinny Hill, Matt Jaha, Allen Gruber).  Are these 3 and other players with high secondary averages considered "steals"?

Stolen Base Runs (Top 15): estimates the impact of base-stealers, as studies have shown that each successful steal adds about .3 runs to a team's total runs scored.  Formula = (.3 x SB) - (.6 x CS).

	Team	Player	SB Runs
1	Jackson	Edgardo Mijares	15.6
2	Dover	Brent Summers	15.6
3	Sea	Clyde Nathan	14.1
4	Lou	Alex Lyons	12
5	Bos	Mateo Nunez	11.7
6	Scranton	Raymond Petrov	11.1
7	NO	Eduardo Tabata	11.1
8	NY Dam	Gus Justice	10.8
9	Hou	Ugueth Gonzales	10.8
10	Bos	Greg Parrott	8.7
11	Sea	Jo-jo Frandsen	7.2
12	OKC	Bernie Butler	7.2
13	St. Lou	O.T. Harper	7.2
14	Lou	Tony Franco	6.9
15	Fresno	Del Broome	6.9

Observations/Questions for further analysis:

-It would be interesting to see if all of these players have an extremely high baserunning rating.  Mijares and Summers have 86 and 87 ratings, respectively.

-The numbers in this statistic are lower than I expected.  How important do you factor speed when evaluating your offense?