Pitcher Stats I Look At: The Advanced
Firstly, the following stats are by no means “must-use” stats. Furthermore, the following stats are not the only “beneath the surface” stats you can use (and anyway, I guess these stats are more like “beneath the surface of beneath the surface,” — or some sort of Inception-style mind mess like that — as the “surface” stats are ERA and K/9, whereas “The Basics” in pitcher stats
I look at, as covered in Lesson 3, are “beneath the surface,” making these stats somewhere deeper than that). These are the advanced stats I like to look at, but I want to encourage you to mess around yourself. See what you dig up. Try looking at different advanced stats and see if there are any others that you find are beneficial for you.
Secondly, my labeling of these stats as “advanced” is not intended to imply that these stats are more difficult to understand or apply. Instead, I simply mean that these are stats that go beyond what a lot of people look at. That’s good for you. If you can gain information from these stats that others are not gaining, you can gain an edge that others are not gaining.
Funny how that works, isn’t it?
As we get deeper into this course, we’ll look even more closely at how to put together everything you are picking up in Lessons 3 and 4 (in other words: if you have questions, they’ll probably be answered before this course is over; if you have questions that are not answered, hit me up on Twitter. @JMToWin is my handle (duh), and I’ll answer any questions you have). For now, however, I want to make sure you know what these “advanced” stats are, and the general way in which I process, perceive, and apply them.
There’s a lot to get to here. So, yeah. Let’s start the “getting to!”
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