Pitch Type & Velocity: Leaderboards
The leaderboards are up for Pitch Type & Velocity! There are a couple standard leaderboard functions that do not work with the Pitch Type tab.
-Starters and Relievers cannot be broken down yet.
-You cannot filter by league.
-You can select the minimum IPs.
-You can select only qualified players.
If there’s a % sign in the column, it’s the percentage of pitches thrown and if there’s a “v” after the pitch type, it’s the average velocity of the pitch.
Quick refresher on what means what: FB – Fastball, SL – Slider, CT – Cutter, CB -Curveball, CH- Changeup, SF – Split-fingered Fastball, KN – Knuckleball, XX – Unidentified, PO – Pickoff Attempt
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
Fantastic stuff!
Can I guess that Pitch Velocity leaderboards are forthcoming?
Tom, what would you be looking for in a velocity leaderboard that isn’t in the current one?
Great stuff — This is by far my favorite stats related site.
I’ll take that back. I didn’t see the velocity columns. Maybe it’s just me, but perhaps a differnt column color for the velocity columns might provide the necessary contrast. Or maybe a line separator?
So very cool…
I don’t see any reason to not have the Pitch Type / Velocity for hitters too, right? Would be nice to see what kind of pitches Vlad, Pujols, Beltran et al face, I would think.
How accurate is the discrimination between pitches? I noticed that some pitchers supposedly don’t throw pitches that they are credited for.
Also, is the velocity data taken from pitchfx data and is the production of that calibrated?
hal: All the information is collected by Baseball Info Solutions. I assume the information is fairly accurate. From what I’ve seen it matches up with Pitchf/x pretty well in most cases.