NERD Game Scores for June 25, 2017

Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric forefather Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a scale of 0-10) the likely aesthetic appeal or watchability, for the learned fan, of a player or team or game.

How are they calculated? Haphazardly, is how. An explanation of the components and formulae which produce these NERD scores is available here. All objections to the numbers here are probably justified, on account of how this entire endeavor is absurd.

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Most Highly Rated Game
Colorado at Los Angeles NL | 16:10 ET
Anderson (61.0 IP, 88 xFIP-) vs. McCarthy (69.0 IP, 93 xFIP-)
For the third consecutive day, the author’s haphazardly constructed algorithm identifies a Rockies-Dodgers contest as the day’s most promising. That’s, in part, due to each club’s proximity to the top of the division. By the coin-flip method — which seems to best approximate how the human mind conceives of postseason contnetion — Colorado and LA feature a roughly 20% and 50% chance, respectively, of winning the NL West — so, not decisive in either case. Reality suggests that the probabilities aren’t quite so close. As everything everywhere suggests, however, the human mind has little use for reality.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Los Angeles NL Television.

Another Brief Note
Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Houston at Seattle, starts at 16:10 ET, and can be accessed by means of this hyperlinked text.

Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete and also sortable table for all of today’s games. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and the rest of the internet. Note that calculations both for team and game NERD scores feature adjustment for postseason odds that increases as season progresses. Read more about those adjustments here and here.

NERD Scores for June 25, 2017
Away SP TM GM TM SP Home Time
Chris Tillman BAL 0 3 3 8 3 TB Jake Odorizzi 13:10
Mike Montgomery CHN 5 7 5 4 3 MIA Edinson Volquez 13:10
Ervin Santana MIN 3 6 5 6 7 CLE Josh Tomlin 13:10
Scott Feldman CIN 4 7 5 5 4 WAS Tanner Roark 13:35
Parker Bridwell LAA 1 3 3 5 4 BOS Doug Fister* 13:35
Zach Davies MIL 4 7 4 3 2 ATL Julio Teheran 13:35
Nick Martinez TEX 2 5 6 8 8 NYA Michael Pineda 14:05
Sonny Gray OAK 7 4 4 4 2 CHA Derek Holland 14:10
Francisco Liriano TOR 4 4 3 3 1 KC Jason Hammel 14:15
Rafael Montero* NYN 5 5 4 2 4 SF Matt Moore 16:05
Tyler Anderson COL 7 6 7 9 6 LAN Brandon McCarthy 16:10
Francis Martes HOU 7 6 5 3 2 SEA Ariel Miranda 16:10
Jeremy Hellickson PHI 0 3 5 8 9 AZ Randall Delgado 16:10
Jordan Zimmermann DET 2 3 4 5 7 SD Clayton Richard 16:40
Chad Kuhl PIT 7 3 5 4 7 STL Mike Leake 20:05
SP denotes pitcher NERD score.
TM denotes team score.
GM denotes overall game score.
Highlighted portion denotes game of the day.

* = Fewer than 10 IP, NERD at discretion of doomed author.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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