2006 White Sox Ofer Report

[TLAK]

Some of the most telling baseball statistics are negative. My definition of an Ofer is a game started where the player has no runs, hits, rbis, walks, hit by pitches, sacrifice bunts or sacrifice flies. This guy did nothing discernable at the plate to help the team. With two games to go, here are the White Sox 2006 Ofers.

 

This year I added splits between pre all star break and post because of the difference in the team's success, and because any time Brian Anderson’s name is mentioned on this board many posters claim he became Joe DiMagio in the second half. Actually BA’s percentage of bad offensive games went up in the second half.

 

I know this is only the batting side, I’ll post the starting pitching later with the same split.

 

All data from Baseball Mussings Day by Day Database

[3E8]

Interesting. Kind of gives you an idea of what the standard deviation of each player's production is if you could quantify it.

 

Is there a minimum number of at-bats you decided on to be considered for an 0fer?

[RME JICO]

TLAK, interesting numbers as always.

 

The only thing that does not make sense is the runs scored. The player is only going to score if someone else drives him in (except for HR), so I don't see the relevance of runs scored, since they would get credit anyway for that game with a hit or RBI. It seems like you could just remove that and not much would change.

 

The most surprising numbers are Podsednik at 14% and Crede at 24%. It seems like that means Pods did just enough not to get an 0fer, but not much more than that.

 

He probably had the most 1fers, like 80%. That would be interesting to see how many games players had 1 or 0 positives at the plate. I bet Pods % which jump up more than anyones.

[TLAK]

TLAK, interesting numbers as always.

 

The only thing that does not make sense is the runs scored. The player is only going to score if someone else drives him in (except for HR), so I don't see the relevance of runs scored, since they would get credit anyway for that game with a hit or RBI. It seems like you could just remove that and not much would change.

 

The most surprising numbers are Podsednik at 14% and Crede at 24%. It seems like that means Pods did just enough not to get an 0fer, but not much more than that.

 

He probably had the most 1fers, like 80%. That would be interesting to see how many games players had 1 or 0 positives at the plate. I bet Pods % which jump up more than anyones.

Runs is if you got on with an error and scored then at least you did something to help the team. An Ofer is a totally disastrous day, no justification for even being on the field from an offensive standpoint.