I seem to remember someone doing or finding a study where they took the 2003-2006 teams and took not the total amount of runs scored, but the standard deviations of runs scored per game. My question is has anyone done another study of those for recent years, and do they have a link to those past numbers? It seems to me that the 2005 team wasn't as prolific as the 03/04 teams in run scoring, but they were way more consistantly in the 3/4/5 runs per game area, instead of having large amounts of 0/1 and 10+ runs scored in a game.

I seem to remember someone doing or finding a study where they took the 2003-2006 teams and took not the total amount of runs scored, but the standard deviations of runs scored per game. My question is has anyone done another study of those for recent years, and do they have a link to those past numbers? It seems to me that the 2005 team wasn't as prolific as the 03/04 teams in run scoring, but they were way more consistantly in the 3/4/5 runs per game area, instead of having large amounts of 0/1 and 10+ runs scored in a game.

 

You could do it yourself. All you have to do is list the runs scored by the sox for 162 games in excel and use the STDDEV() formula. Then compare that to the average runs per game, use AVERAGE() formula, and you will be able to see how volatile the sox really were in scoring runs this year. The larger the STDDEV the more variation away from the mean in runs scored, meaning the more volatility in their run production.

That was me that played around with it originally. The time consuming part is getting all of the game results into an excel column format, unless there's a new site that's cropped up that will be easier exporting.

 

At some point I'll have time to do so again.

Cool. I was kinda hoping it was someone out there who had done it, because I was curious if it had been updated and how 2008 compared to the last few years. The talks about Tavarez got me thinking about the effect that Pods had on the Standard Deviations of runs scored in 2005, and wondering how much of a difference the same sort of player would make if we kept most of the rest of the team intact.