Yes, Fenway is an example of where this might work. Sell seats in the batters eye for big games/playoffs, and give out light+dark tshirts.
Now check out Antwaan Randel El’s passing stats
I meant NFL passing stats…
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How is passer rating calculated?
Does it seem odd to anyone else that his passer rating for PIT and WAS combined is higher than both his PIT passer rating AND his WAS passer rating?
I assume it must be mathematically possible but I’m curious to crunch the numbers.
I also have a nice spreadsheet where one can input the inputs and receive an output. It’s pretty simple to set up, no doubt.
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Good actuarial question is: how many attempts before this stat is credible, i.e., worthy of discussion and allows predictions to be made based on it?
Actuaries might have a credible amount that differs from a head Fuh-baw coach.
Oh we are obviously cherry-picking non-credible samples for fun.
I still am curious to figure out how it can be that a combined passer rating is higher than a team-level one.
Will crunch the numbers now.
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I figure it has to do with adding denominators or something like that
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Ok next dumb question: where it says “Rate”… uh… does that mean “passer rating”?
From Funemployed’s & Kid_Rock’s screen shots? Yes. That is the passer rating.
You should be able to match that number.
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I’m calling the following: (a b c d passer_rating
PIT: 2.9444 1.6111 4.4444 2.375 189.5833
WAS: 1.8333 3.5 4.4444 2.375 202.5463
Total: 2.5741 2.2407 4.4444 2.375 193.9043
I am not matching any of the three passer ratings and my combined passer ratings is, quite logically, in between the two team passer ratings.
I wonder if it’s a rounding thing. I did this in Excel and rounded nothing.
ETA: Naw, rounding doesn’t make that much difference. Truncating might.
I round Col F to 3 places:
Oh, I missed that a-c are getting capped at 2.375.
That cap also explains my initial question.
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Ok, so conceptually this is interesting. I’ve never delved into this before.
The calculation is implicitly defining perfection as:
a) completing at least 77.5% of your pass attempts
b) passing for at least 12.5 yards per attempt
c) have a TD percentage of at least 11.875%
d) throw 0 interceptions
The last one obviously makes sense. You can’t get fewer than 0 interceptions.
But the first three can be exceeded and you get no extra credit for doing so.
So if you’re sub-dividing a player’s career and he exceeded one of the thresholds for this subset and exceeded a different threshold for that subset of his career then his overall passer rating can exceed either of the subsets.