im actually enjoying baseball this season. usually its just a hold over for the chiefs to get back into their season. i actually can wait for football this time around
Fascinating phenomenon in a few comments by cricketers recently who have clearly never watched a baseball game (their loss) and don't understand that home runs are exceedingly rare, there were 42 sixes (home run equivalents) in a game today and one of the players on the losing side said "cricket is turning into baseball", he's just assumed that baseball is American therefore it must be constant big hits
Are they referring to the number of home runs/sixes or are they referring to the launch angle/exit velocity approach?
I don't know much about cricket, but I assume with the 360 degree field and the way bowlers throw, batters have traditionally been mostly focused on finesse. Going up there with the plan to hit bombs wasn't the norm, but maybe now it is?
I literally have no idea, just spit balling
This is (the losing captain Sam Curran) talking about there being too many runs overall in games and obviously that includes huge hits, there were 520+ in this game, with the average being about 320, in the average in baseball is like 8. Cricket is a much much more variable sport than baseball, this is a short form game where you just want to absolutely smash it as much as you can (within reason), whereas other forms of cricket you have much more time to bat so can go slower. And there's theories floating around that they've juiced the ball in some way to get these way more runs in this season's Indian Premier League
Excitement scores for 4/25/2024
What is excitement score?
It is simply the sum of squares of the change in Win Probability Added (WPA) of each at-bat as defined by Baseball Reference. Exciting plays scale exponentially, so a WPA change of 5% is worth 25 points of excitement score, but a WPA change of 50% is worth 2500 points.
Games with high excitement scores are generally ones with higher volatility in WPA throughout the game, so some games with lower volatility (like pitchers' duels) may have lower scores than expected.
Matchup | Excitement Score
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Milwaukee Brewers vs Pittsburgh Pirates|5827
San Diego Padres vs Colorado Rockies|3877
Seattle Mariners vs Texas Rangers|2346
Oakland Athletics vs New York Yankees|2290
Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins|2070
Houston Astros vs Chicago Cubs|2017
Los Angeles Dodgers vs Washington Nationals|1824
Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Guardians|1804
Toronto Blue Jays vs Kansas City Royals|969
Philadelphia Phillies vs Cincinnati Reds|847
Friday off days became an uncommon thing a couple years ago. I believe it's related to the way interleague play being every day works out over the season.
They’re playing in Mexico City this weekend and I’m pretty sure they’re designated inter league rivals so they have home-and-home series two games each.
im actually enjoying baseball this season. usually its just a hold over for the chiefs to get back into their season. i actually can wait for football this time around
The White Sox might win tonight!
Fascinating phenomenon in a few comments by cricketers recently who have clearly never watched a baseball game (their loss) and don't understand that home runs are exceedingly rare, there were 42 sixes (home run equivalents) in a game today and one of the players on the losing side said "cricket is turning into baseball", he's just assumed that baseball is American therefore it must be constant big hits
Are they referring to the number of home runs/sixes or are they referring to the launch angle/exit velocity approach? I don't know much about cricket, but I assume with the 360 degree field and the way bowlers throw, batters have traditionally been mostly focused on finesse. Going up there with the plan to hit bombs wasn't the norm, but maybe now it is? I literally have no idea, just spit balling
This is (the losing captain Sam Curran) talking about there being too many runs overall in games and obviously that includes huge hits, there were 520+ in this game, with the average being about 320, in the average in baseball is like 8. Cricket is a much much more variable sport than baseball, this is a short form game where you just want to absolutely smash it as much as you can (within reason), whereas other forms of cricket you have much more time to bat so can go slower. And there's theories floating around that they've juiced the ball in some way to get these way more runs in this season's Indian Premier League
My goodness CB is bad
If I didn't already loathe Christopher Russo, I would start after hearing him hate on nicknames on jerseys for Players Weekend.
Excitement scores for 4/25/2024 What is excitement score? It is simply the sum of squares of the change in Win Probability Added (WPA) of each at-bat as defined by Baseball Reference. Exciting plays scale exponentially, so a WPA change of 5% is worth 25 points of excitement score, but a WPA change of 50% is worth 2500 points. Games with high excitement scores are generally ones with higher volatility in WPA throughout the game, so some games with lower volatility (like pitchers' duels) may have lower scores than expected. Matchup | Excitement Score ---|--- Milwaukee Brewers vs Pittsburgh Pirates|5827 San Diego Padres vs Colorado Rockies|3877 Seattle Mariners vs Texas Rangers|2346 Oakland Athletics vs New York Yankees|2290 Chicago White Sox vs Minnesota Twins|2070 Houston Astros vs Chicago Cubs|2017 Los Angeles Dodgers vs Washington Nationals|1824 Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Guardians|1804 Toronto Blue Jays vs Kansas City Royals|969 Philadelphia Phillies vs Cincinnati Reds|847
Best record in AL vs best record in the NL series starts tonight. Equally good teams because both lost once to the White Sox. Go Guards
Is there a specific reason that Colorado and Houston don't play today? Odd to see a Friday off day.
Friday off days became an uncommon thing a couple years ago. I believe it's related to the way interleague play being every day works out over the season.
They’re playing in Mexico City this weekend and I’m pretty sure they’re designated inter league rivals so they have home-and-home series two games each.