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Triples and HRs should count as doubles for the purposes of records.
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Date: July 16th, 2018 11:58 PM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Like if you are chasing the record for most doubles in a season, you should get to count triples and homers towards that total. Makes no sense to penalize people for getting more bases.
And similarly, HRs should count as triples for the triples record. |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:14 AM Author: Comical prole market A HR should count as 2 doubles and triple should count as 1.5 doubles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36443968) |
Date: July 16th, 2018 11:59 PM Author: contagious sanctuary yarmulke they have separate categories that do that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442052) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:05 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Yeah, but nobody cares about those. The MAIN category should do that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442092) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:02 AM Author: Salmon Sweet Tailpipe Can we also count Triples doubles and homers as singles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442068) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:05 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Well, for singles it's the "hits" record that includes everything. Nobody cares about who actually hits the most singles and rightfully so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442090) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:06 AM Author: Salmon Sweet Tailpipe Answer the question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442098) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:07 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Yes. My answer is yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442103) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:08 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot i kind of agree. why is a guy who gets a single, double and 2 HRs not credited with a cycle? his achievement is better than a cycle.
i see your question. but stats are fun. |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:10 AM Author: Dashing indian lodge b/c a cycle is a novelty not a record or even really much of an "achievement" relatively speaking (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442126) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:11 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot it's a "record" in the sense that it's recorded in the stats books (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442134) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:16 AM Author: Dashing indian lodge so is lots of shit, doesn't mean people really give a shit about it as a measure of anything outside of itself (e.g. player quality). just a low probability event. nobody thinks any more highly of eric valent b/c he fluked into a cycle one day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442166) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 1:59 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot a cycle still a cool thing to achieve. plenty of flukey, low probability events dont indicate that one is of a certain quality but are still cool things to achieve (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442654) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 2:02 AM Author: Dashing indian lodge not incompatible with my poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442661) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 2:06 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot back to your original poast, i agree that a cycle is a "novelty" and that a cycle is not "even really much of an "achievement" relatively speaking"... but it's still a record bc it's tracked, in the same way that a no-hitter is a record bc it's tracked even though no-hitters are flukey and plenty of mediocre performances have been no-hitters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442675) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 2:38 AM Author: Dashing indian lodge i just don't see the need to elevate the term "record" in the way you're using it. lots of shit gets recorded. early baseball bros started tracking hrs because they knew they were impressive. they started tracking cycles b/c they thought they were kooky and interesting. the term "record" is typically used in sports to connote achievement but the textbook definition is just recordings of data. you're arguing that cycles are in fact the latter but shouldn't be considered the former. i don't think anyone would really disagree.
to the extent that the fact that we record them all implies that we value them in some way - i guess this is really what you're arguing - that doesn't really imply anything about why we value them/whether we value them as anything more than interesting oddities, not completely irrelevant to the question of whether the player is talented but also not strongly indicative of it in any way, nor is it designed to be.
no hitters can be fluky and can be pitched by mediocre pitchers but they almost always mean that the pitcher pitched a damn good game. doesn't have to be that way and it isn't always that way but at least the premise of why we'd be interested in them is that it's athletically impressive to get 27 pro batters out without giving up a single hit. the premise of the cycle isn't athletic impressiveness as much as it is just the spectacle of it. to buck's point in OP i don't think there's anyone who would say that a 4-4 day with 3 extra base hits including a home run is more athletically impressive than going 4-4 with 4 hrs. |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 9:41 PM Author: charcoal aphrodisiac coldplay fan Lmfao extreme jewish behavior here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36448777) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 1:55 AM Author: bateful chest-beating depressive useless brakes Cr. Astonishingly low iq take from dbg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442640) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:08 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital I also have an unrelated baseball question.
If you hit a single and try to stretch it into a double and get thrown out, how is that scored?
You still get credit for the single, right? Is the out counted as "caught stealing"? Or something else? Is there a stat category for "getting thrown out trying to take an extra base"? |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:09 AM Author: bright heaven yes, a single. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442119) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:10 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital What does the out count as? Is there a category for the out? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442124) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:10 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot just a putout (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442128) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:11 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital ok. Just a generic "baserunning out", but not a CS.
I feel like this is a stat that should be tracked more to keep track of shitty baserunners. |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:12 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot as i said below, on the official scorecard it would be PO 9-6 or PO 7-4
there may be some advanced stats that somehow track it. no idea |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:14 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Yeah, I 'm just thinking how "CS" is a standard stat that everyone knows but nobody really keeps track of PO per year, when it's pretty important to let you know who sucks at base running, more than what you learn from CS. I'm sure teams and stat dorks do but casual fans don't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442152) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:17 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot i see ur point. why is there no stat for "this guy cant make his next base very often" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442173) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:17 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Yeah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442177) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:10 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot scoring mfe here.
it's a single, ofs.
scored as single then a putout 9-4 or whatever |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:12 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Ok. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442144) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:09 AM Author: bright heaven They should could a homerun as two doubles. And homeruns as 1 and a third triples....that's the only fair way to do it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442116) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:09 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital Nooooo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442120) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:09 AM Author: olive persian trailer park just stop running at 2nd (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442117) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:14 AM Author: Dashing indian lodge that's what slg is for
and it's also why nobody really gives a shit about the "singles" record, it's a record because they're their own distinct category and we inevitably count them. might as well ask why we count things. |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:15 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital But people do give a shit about the doubles and triples records. And my point is they're giving an incorrect shit about the wrong thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442160) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:18 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442179) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:18 AM Author: bright heaven triples are impressive in their unique way as they require that you be fast as shit.
no one cares about the doubles record. |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 1:56 AM Author: bateful chest-beating depressive useless brakes Hitting triples is an entirely different skill than hitting hrs. Even hitting doubles is more about finding gaps then pure power like for hrs. They should be counted distinctly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442648) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:17 AM Author: Sapphire theater stage hunting ground TONY GWYNN TOO FAT TO ROLL IN HIS GRAVE BUT NONETHELESS NONPLUSSED FROM THE AFTERLIFE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442176) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:20 AM Author: Dashing indian lodge lol
anyways the total hits records justifiably valued, singles records for their own sake is different |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:23 AM Author: Dashing indian lodge this thread is a good time to say the total bases record is a totally underrated and overlooked record and that hank aaron pwns everyone in it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442214) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 12:24 AM Author: provocative gaming laptop hospital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442219) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 1:55 AM Author: bateful chest-beating depressive useless brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442643) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 1:37 AM Author: mewling claret new version Nobody cares (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442587) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 1:38 AM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot u seem maf. obviously ppl do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36442592) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:01 AM Author: mewling claret new version (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36443889) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 11:07 AM Author: Maniacal cracking toaster Let's leave it as it is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36443914) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 9:28 PM Author: Stimulating lemon crackhouse Don’t they track extra base hits as a separate metric? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36448702) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 9:38 PM Author: Nighttime maize business firm This is dbg/Ironside level stats autism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36448763) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 9:57 PM Author: Impertinent apoplectic hominid spot RANK the orders of hitting for the cycle #baseball #ironside (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36448852) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 9:40 PM Author: Bonkers tripping generalized bond So HR hitters could dominate all stats? Fuck off (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36448773) |
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Date: July 17th, 2018 9:43 PM Author: Maroon exhilarant parlour elastic band Triples signal a skill quite different than a double or homerun. It's Apple's and oranges and kumquats. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4027979&forum_id=2#36448786) |