The 1972 E Ratings, WP/BK/Closer Ratings,
and the Fringe Players, are mostly made from scratch and a few from
the CHD disks. The following are the procedures and formulas I used. You
may post these when you post my submission.
E Ratings: Since the formula that SOM gives us is obviously flawed due to
the fact that they dont want to give us their real formula, I am using the
formula used by Lance Haffner. This takes into account three variables:
1) The league average E PTS at each position.
2) The actual E PTS for each player at every position played.
BUT
If E PTS (see below for explanation) is 0, if the result is for a PITCHER,
he automatically is given E0. If not, his e rating depends on the last
paragraph in this E Rating write-up.
E PTS is based on 1000 - (1000 * Fielding Percentage)
For example, if a catcher has a .986 Fielding Percentage, his E PTS
is 14.
The second portion is based on half of the maximum advanced E RATING SOM
has for each position (variable 3,) which is:
Outfielders and Catchers: 8
First Basemen: 12.5
Second Basemen: 20.5
Third Basemen: 18.5
Shortstops: 24
Pitchers: 19 (remember a fielding pct of 1.000 is E0 for pitchers)
For example: An arbitrary and imaginary player named Joe Schmoe of ATN
played at 1B and C. The fielding percentage at Catcher for Schmoe was .980
and at 1B it was .996. This gives him 20 E PTS at Catcher and 4 at 1B.
Let's assume the average fielding percentage for 1972 at C in the NL was
.989 and 1B was .990. This would give us a AVERAGE e pts at C to be 11 and
1B to be 10. So, Schmoe's e rating would be ((20-11) / 8) or E 9.125. I
round UP whenever the remainder is above .1, so he gets E10 at C. At 1B,
he would get, by the same formula, .4 / 12.5 or E5. His fielding range
rating was whatever SOM gave him on his CHD record.
UNLESS:
The fielding rating was 1.000. In that case: if any other position he
played was given a calculated e rating, that e rating would be pro-rated
based upon the difference of the average e rating for that position and
that of the second position. In all cases if there were two or more of
said positions, the one used would be the one with as close to the number
of games played as possible.
So:
If Schmoe has a 1.000 rating at 1B and didn't have over 40 games at 1B (if
he did he'd be given E0) his e rating at 1B would be 9.125 / 16 * 25 or
E15. If the chances at 1B were very low (objective opinion) then he would
instead be given E25. That is how SOM does it.
But if 1B were his only position or C was also 1.000 and games at both
positions were under 40, the ratings would be E13 at 1B and E8 at Catcher.
In some cases, for generally everyday players at each position, I used the
everyday formula of Errors/Games * 162.
In no case was an e rating higher than the ADVANCED maximum e rating given
even if number of errors were high or number of games were low enough to
give a result when plugging numbers in formula over that maximum e rating.
Now for WP/BK and Closer, the formulas in the old green manual were used in
all cases. WP would be (Wild Pitches Thrown / Innings Pitched) * 200, and
Balks would be same but 400 would take the place of 200 in this formula and
Balks committed would take the places of Wild Pitches Thrown. For Closers:
that rating is based on saves.
0 saves = N
1-3 = 0
4-6 = 1
5-9 = 2
10-14 = 3
15-19 = 4
20-29 = 5
30 or more = 6.
Not written in stone.
For years before 1970, I sometimes give pitchers with close calls slack, so
sometimes closers with only 23 saves for example, if this was by far one of
the highest saves in the league, would be given 6, or Closers with 9 saves,
when the maximum saves were way under 30, would be given 3.
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