Time To Keep Track Of How Annoying We Are
by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 7, 2010 5:29 PM PDT
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PrintYou'll find a new little box over there on the left-hand menu. This box includes the total number of runs the Mariners have scored on the season, as well as a new statistic intended to capture the frequency with which those runs are scored in annoying fashion. What constitutes an annoying run? Generally speaking, you know an annoying run when you see it - we've all seen enough Angels games - but for our purposes, an annoying run is a run that scores at least in part because of an infield single, a bunt, a blooper, a steal, a hit and run, an error, an umpire mistake, a passed ball, or a wild pitch. There are probably other annoying ways of scoring that I forgot, and those may be included as they come up.
Note that this leaves out conventional runs produced by annoying players. For example, Rob Johnson hitting a home run is pretty annoying, in the way that Jeff Mathis hitting a home run is annoying. However, I didn't want to go overboard. Home runs are legit.
I wasn't sure what to call this new statistic, but acronyms are played out, and "doily" seems like a word no man would ever say, so I went with that.
So far this season, through two games, the Mariners come in at an impressively annoying 83%, with the lone non-annoying run scoring on a dinger that was still kind of annoying. Not a bad way to kick things off.
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Eric Byrnes is the poster child for annoyingness
Except annoying in a bad way.
Is this done manually or automatically?
It’d be neat to see Doily% team rankings. There’s probably some unsung annoying team out there hoping to come out on top.
Wait, you mean retrosheet doesn't compile doily%?
This is some bullshit.
Well this was an unclear response
It is 100% manual
by Jeff Sullivan on Apr 7, 2010 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
May our doilies runneth over
Annoying 10-point Poinsettia doily
by lemonverbena on Apr 7, 2010 5:47 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Great idea. Love it!
I haven’t worked though all the possibilities, but I have to imagine that pretty much any unearned run is annoying. Though, maybe only annoying for the defense, not annoyingness generated by the offense.
Speaking of annoying, Harden has 7 Ks in 3 innings
Another idea: keep track of the run value difference of each event the umpires clearly fuck up this year.
It would actually be pretty interesting to have one person from each team do this.
When I think of the word doily, I think of Chris Snelling
Here’s to you Doyle!
I wish that SBN would let you place it right under the list of sections.
It’s slightly annoying to have to jump down half the page to see it. Not a big deal, though.
A Mariners fan in Seattle
Not if we were getting a letter grade, only a B/B- for an 83%.
The game thread is impossible to keep up with when you are trying to watch the game. I must be a C-/D+ blogger.
by TrustBaseball on Apr 7, 2010 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Would an inside the park home run count as annoying?
What about a two run inside the park home run hit by Figgins after Ichiro reached base on a fielding/throwing error?
Perhaps balks could be included in things that lead to doily runs?
Often they are caused by speedy base-runners, like errors.
Would it be to much work to have an "Annoyingness Against" %?
Don’t bother if it would take too long, but it would be interesting to see if we can be beaten at our own game, and easier than keeping track of other team’s to see if any specific team is more annoying than we are.
...and now I'm here
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