GR<\/strong> \u2014 Games in Relief<\/p>\n IP<\/strong> \u2014 Innings Pitched<\/p>\n H<\/strong> \u2014 Hits allowed<\/p>\n ER<\/strong> \u2014 Earned Runs allowed<\/p>\n BB<\/strong> \u2014 Bases on Balls, otherwise known as walks<\/p>\n K<\/strong> \u2014 Strikeouts<\/p>\n HR<\/strong> \u2014 Home Runs allowed<\/p>\n TBF<\/strong> \u2014 Total Batters Faced<\/p>\n ERA<\/strong> \u2014 Earned Run Average. Formula: (ER*9)\/IP<\/p>\n ERA-minus (ERA\u2013)<\/strong> \u2014 A pitcher\u2019s ERA adjusted to his home park, divided by the league-wide ERA, and multiplied by 100. A league average ERA-minus is 100. The lower, the better. Each digit is a percentage point better or worst than league average. If a player\u2019s ERA is 0.00, his ERA-minus is 0.<\/p>\n Other Examples: League ERA is 4.00. Player\u2019s adjusted ERA is 2.00. His ERA-minus is 50.<\/p>\n League ERA is 4.00. Player\u2019s adjusted ERA is 8.00. His ERA-minus is 200.<\/p>\n WHIP<\/strong> \u2014 Walks and Hits per Inning Pitched. It indicates how many baserunners a pitcher allows per inning. League average is typically around 1.300. Formula: (BB+H)\/IP<\/p>\n HR%<\/strong> \u2014 Home Run percentage. Percentage of opposing plate appearances that yield a home run. Also called home run rate. Formula: HR\/TBF<\/p>\n K%<\/strong> \u2014 Strikeout percentage. Also called strikeout rate or K rate. Percentage of opposing plate appearances resulting in a strikeout. Formula: K\/TBF<\/p>\n BB%<\/strong> \u2014 Walk percentage. Also called walk rate. Percentage of opposing plate appearances resulting in a walk. Formula: BB\/TBF<\/p>\n K\u2013BB%<\/strong> \u2014 Strikeout rate minus walk rate. Also called K minus walk rate. Difference in percentage points between a strikeout rate and a walk rate. A positive K\u2013BB% means the pitcher struck out a higher percentage of opposing hitters than he walked.<\/p>\n IR<\/strong> \u2014 Inherited Runners. This is a runner that was on base when the reliever entered the game. Extra-inning automatic runners do not count toward IR.<\/p>\n IS<\/strong> \u2014 Inherited Runners Scored.<\/p>\n IS%<\/strong> \u2014 Percentage of inherited runners that ultimately scored.<\/p>\n ScOtg<\/strong> \u2014 Scoreless Outings. A relief appearance that saw no run of any kind charged to the pitcher.<\/p>\n IOtg<\/strong> \u2014 A relief appearance that saw the pitcher not have any runs charged to him while allowing at least one inherited runner to score.<\/p>\n UOtg<\/strong> \u2014 A relief appearance where a pitcher had one or more runs charged to him, but they were all unearned.<\/p>\n ScOtg%<\/strong> \u2014 Scoreless Outing Percentage. Formula: Scoreless Outings divided by Games in Relief.<\/p>\n ScOtg% (ER)<\/strong> \u2014 A variation of ScOtg that only holds earned runs against a pitcher. Formula: (ScOtg+UOtg)\/GR.<\/p>\n TScOtg%<\/strong> \u2014 True Scoreless Outing Percentage. (ScOtg\u2013IOtg)\/GR.<\/p>\n A Goose Egg inning is seventh inning or later, maximum two-run lead or a tie game. Holding the opponent scoreless yields a Goose Egg (GE); allowing an earned run while not closing out a win gives a Broken Egg (BE). Doing neither yields a Meh (M). When listed together, it is either in the format GE\u2013BE\u2013M or GE\u2013BE. GE\/BE = GE per BE.<\/p>\n A Goose Egg is like a save, except more restrictive. Here are the main points…<\/p>\n Rankings are split into the following categories. These categories encompass what a relief pitcher\u2019s jobs are and are weighted according to importance.<\/p>\n Clutch<\/strong> (45% of score) \u2014 How well they perform in late innings either while the game is tied or while holding a narrow lead. For clutch, we will use both the Goose Egg total (33%) and the ratio of Goose Eggs to Broken Eggs (67%) due to the major flaws in Saves and Holds.<\/p>\n Run Prevention<\/strong> (35%) \u2014 How well they keep runs off the board, including inherited runners. We will use a mixture of the Scoreless Outing Percentage (Earned Runs only), Inherited Runners Scored Percentage (IS%), and ERA-minus. ScOtg% is 75% of the score, IS% is 15%, and ERA-minus is 10%.<\/p>\n Baserunner Prevention<\/strong> (13%) \u2014 Who has the lowest WHIP and lowest home run percentage (HR%). WHIP is 85% of the Baserunner Prevention score, and HR% is 15%.<\/p>\n Command<\/strong> (7%) \u2014 Who has the best strikeout percentage minus walk percentage (K\u2013BB%).<\/p>\n Run Prevention<\/strong> (60%), Baserunner Prevention<\/strong> (26%), Command<\/strong> (14%)<\/p>\n The total score in each category is based on the league average. Zero points equals the league average. Positive scores are better than league average; negative scores are worse. The farther their score is from zero \u2014 either positive or negative \u2014 the farther they are from the league average.<\/p>\n (Note: Due to weighting each score, adding the categories together won\u2019t equal the total score.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Glossary of Terms \u2014 Relief Pitching GR \u2014 Games in Relief IP \u2014 Innings Pitched H \u2014 Hits allowed ER \u2014 Earned Runs allowed BB \u2014 Bases on Balls, otherwise known as walks K \u2014 Strikeouts HR \u2014 Home Runs allowed TBF \u2014 Total Batters Faced ERA \u2014 Earned Run Average. Formula: (ER*9)\/IP ERA-minus (ERA\u2013) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","pmpro-has-access","eq-blocks"],"yoast_head":"\nGoose Eggs, Broken Eggs, and Mehs<\/h3>\n
More Detailed Explanation of Goose Eggs<\/h4>\n
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Score Formula for Rankings<\/h2>\n
Team Rankings, Setup Men, and Closers<\/h4>\n
Middle Relievers<\/h4>\n
Totaling Up the Scores<\/h4>\n