rbi Stories - Beyond the Box Score
RIP RBI
While watching last night's Mets-Tigers game, I realized I no longer even look at a player's RBI total when the BA/HR/RBI (and sometimes OBP and OPS) listing appears on screen during an at-bat. The same goes for any perusal of leaderboards at FanGraphs or Baseball Reference. The flaws of the stat...
BWAA MVP: RBI and PA w/ Runners On; and some Astros RBI data too
With the recent discussions on the inaneness with which BWAA MVP's are often chosen, I figured it'd be worth it to drive home a point with some statistics. Ryan Howard received a ludicrous twelve first place votes, mainly because he had a staggering 146 RBI. But RBI isn't a good indicator of a...
What If RBIs Were An Accurate Stat?
I'll spare you the anti-RBI rant, as we've all heard it before. But what if RBIs actually reflected a player's offensive production? To answer that question, I took Justin's runs-above-replacement stat (RAR, which is BaseRuns-derived linear weights with park and league adjustments) and found the...
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