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Today’s question comes to you from Peter Bonney’s article, “Who Watches the Watchers? Introducing Umpire Consistency Score,” where he, you know, introduces an umpire consistency score. You’ll have to read the article for the nuts and bolts of the metric, but it sets out to do just what it says. Bonney utilizes both raw UCS as well as UCS150, which is UCS (re-normalized) per 150 pitches (i.e. UCS per typical game). Toward the end of the piece, he busts out his whole leaderboard of umpires who worked from 2008-2015 and called at least 10,000 pitches. So the question before you today, dear reader, is this:

Can you name two of the top 10 umpires, as ranked by UCS150?

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Brian
10 years ago

Going out on a limb to guess that Angel Hernandez is not among the top 10…

Kade Enders
10 years ago

Jim Joyce, Tim McClelland

Palm Beach Mansion
10 years ago
Reply to  Kade Enders

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darryl
10 years ago

Jim Joyce & Dana DeMuth

semperty
10 years ago

Tim McClelland and Jim Reynolds

The Only Nolan
10 years ago

Vic Carapazza and rob drake

Paul Kasiński
10 years ago
Reply to  The Only Nolan

Vic Carapazza? I hope this was a joke…

Kazuto Yamazaki
10 years ago

Lance Barksdale and Laz Diaz

Sean C.
10 years ago

Tim Welke
Jerry Meals

Jeremy
10 years ago

Bill Welke and Jim Wolf

Paul Kasiński
10 years ago

Dale Scott and Jim Joyce

Jamie
10 years ago

Tim Welke and Dale Scott

Ace2000
10 years ago

Tim Welke and Jim Joyce

Jamie
10 years ago

Joe West and John Hirshbeck

40/40club
10 years ago

Tim McClendall and John Hirschbeck

over under
10 years ago

Phill Cuzzi and Eric Cooper

acommenter
10 years ago

Gary Cederstrom and Bill Welke

JacobM
10 years ago

Alan Porter and Jim Joyce

Anthony
10 years ago

Joe West, Jim Joyce

hobbes020
10 years ago

Phil Cuzzi
Ed Hickox

KonoldoMember since 2020
10 years ago

Jeff Nelson and Jim Reynolds

Aaron HartmanMember since 2016
10 years ago

Jim Reynolds, John Hirschbeck

The 'ole run around
10 years ago

Welke and Cuzzi

Douglas B.
10 years ago

Lance Barksdale and Eric Cooper

Phillies113
10 years ago

Ron Culpa, Tim Welke

JacobM
10 years ago

CB Bucknor and Todd Tichenor

Hail Mary
10 years ago

Barksdale and Cuzzi

JacobM
10 years ago

Jerry Meals and Hunter Wendelstedt

Jason Hanselman
10 years ago

Tim McClelland
Paul Schreiber

lunch
10 years ago

Tim Tschida and Tim McClelland

Just Guessin
10 years ago

Barksdale and Guccione

Quint Frauman
10 years ago

Tom Woodring and Tim Timmons

Pete
10 years ago

Lance Barret, Quinn Walcott

Scott
10 years ago

Dale Scott
Tim mcclelland

Justin
10 years ago

Tim McClelland, Eric Cooper

Hope in a boat
10 years ago

Barksdale and McClelland

Jim HMember since 2016🏆 MVP
10 years ago

barksdale and gibson

AlanC
10 years ago

Drake and Diaz

letsdothis
10 years ago

McClelland and Diaz

Yasser Aguiar
10 years ago

Jim Joyce and Jeff Nelson

Reed
10 years ago

T Welke and J Joyce

mo dollaz
10 years ago

Eric Coope, Jerry Layne

Jason B
10 years ago

YUK and DUM.

(Does anyone else remember the umpires from NES Bases Loaded? Anybody? Aaahhh, 8-bit good times…)

http://img.youtube.com/vi/q7SfiEc-uhM/hqdefault.jpg

dang
10 years ago

Eric Cooper and Cory Blaser

Argoyle
10 years ago

the last 4 digits of my social are 83 hunna

Cory
10 years ago

Vic Carapazza and Eric Cooper

Vincent
10 years ago

Triple H and X-Pac

Garrett
10 years ago

Jeff Nelson & John Hirschbeck