Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 13, 2008
Scoring the Starters

After watching last night's double header in Cleveland in which the four starters dominated both games, I wondered what teams posted the highest average game scores. Game Score was invented by Bill James and allows you do to a quick calculation off the numbers in the boxscore to determine the quality of the start. Anything above 50 and there is a good chance of a win, with 100 being among the best starts ever. I averaged together the game scores for starters in each game. Here are the top five:

Best Teams, Average Game Score, 2008
Team StartersRecordAverage Game Score
Blue Jays16-1454.7
Indians15-1354.5
Braves16-1154.4
Diamondbacks20-852.9
Athletics15-1452.3

I should go back and look at this in previous years, because except for Arizona, high average game scores are not translating into a lot of wins for starting staffs.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:10 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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iesh those are annoying... Captcha anyone?

Since the game score doesn't take the pitchers teams offensive production into account there's no way to tell what happened in the rest of the game. It's a good tool to measure the individual performance of a pitcher.

Shawn Marcum has scored 76, 76, 83 in his last 3 starts. The score of 83 is the best so far this season by a Jays starter but every starter has at least 2 starts over 60. Doc has 3, Marcum has 6 (1 more at 59).

If Marcum keeps up his hot start (2.22 ERA 4-2) he might just be the Jays allstar rep.

Posted by: Andrew at May 13, 2008 11:57 AM

Captcha wouldn't make a difference. They found a different way in.

Posted by: David Pinto at May 13, 2008 01:12 PM
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