NERD Game Scores: Ft. The Still Largely Indomitable Mike Fiers

August 24, 2014

Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by viscount of the internet 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. Read more about the components of and formulae for NERD scores here.

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Most Highly Rated Game
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee | 14:10 ET
Vance Worley (74.0 IP, 96 xFIP-, 0.6 WAR) faces Mike Fiers (28.0 IP, 74 xFIP-, 0.8 WAR). In his first appearance following a 14-strikeout start, the latter produced another excellent line, striking out a quarter of the 24 batters he faced against Toronto while conceding only a single run over 7.0 innings (box). Following the former club’s victory on Saturday, the Pirates and Brewers now possess 25% and 54% odds, respectively, of qualifying for the divisional series.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Milwaukee Radio.

Single, Brief Note
Regarding Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Atlanta at Cincinnati, starts at 1:10pm ET, and can be accessed by means of this hyperlinked text.

Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete and very sortable table for all of today’s games. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and also the rest of the internet. Note that the calculations both for team and game NERD scores have changed recently to better integrate playoff odds into same. Read more about those changes here, if you’re the sort of person accustomed to making poor life decisions.

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Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Chris Sale	CHA	10	2	5	4	7	NYA	Chris Capuano	13:05
Br. Oberholtzer	HOU	4	4	4	4	6	CLE	Trevor Bauer	13:05
Chris Archer	TB	6	4	5	4	6	TOR	Drew Hutchison	13:07
Aaron Harang	ATL	3	7	4	2	4	CIN	Alfredo Simon	13:10
Ryan Vogelsong	SF	2	8	6	4	10	WAS	St. Strasburg	13:35
Hisashi Iwakuma	SEA	8	7	5	3	0	BOS	Allen Webster	13:35
Justin Masterson	STL	5	7	5	3	4	PHI	Jerome Williams	13:35
Max Scherzer	DET	8	10	6	3	4	MIN	Kyle Gibson	14:10
Vance Worley	PIT	5	7	8	10	10	MIL	Mike Fiers	14:10
Miguel Gonzalez	BAL	1	5	4	4	5	CHN	Tsuyoshi Wada	14:20
Jason Vargas	KC	4	8	5	3	2	TEX	Scott Baker	15:05
Brad Hand	MIA	4	4	4	4	6	COL	Chris. Bergman*	16:10
Bartolo Colon	NYN	6	3	3	4	0	LAN	Kevin Correia	16:10
Ian Kennedy	SD	7	3	4	3	4	AZ	Chase Anderson	16:10
Jered Weaver	LAA	2	8	6	7	6	OAK	Scott Kazmir	20:05

To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.