An Equally Exciting Update to Our Player Cards

[My best Professor Farnsworth voice]

Excellent news everybody!

We’re extraordinarily excited and completely happy to announce a protracted overdue and labor-intensive replace to our leaderboards and participant playing cards! This publish will focus totally on the participant playing cards, however in one other bit of excellent information, there’s going to be an enormous quantity of overlap between the choices obtainable on participant playing cards and leaderboards from this level ahead. So in case you change into comfy utilizing one, you’ll be fairly content material utilizing the opposite as nicely.

Let’s begin from the highest down. A lot of the data on the high of the cardboard stays the identical, with the biographical data, stats overview, and up to date articles. The primary main change is as a substitute of a field that has, for a number of years, mentioned the at-a-glance part might be coming quickly…there’s truly an at-a-glance part!

For batters, that entails the outdated standbys, but additionally related swing choice data, launch angle, ninetieth percentile exit velocity, and defensive metrics.

For pitchers, you’re handled to Stephen Sutton-Brown’s glorious work that plots the motion of every pitcher’s choices on the right-hand facet, with the corresponding StuffPro grades on the left-hand facet. This additionally, essentially, will offer you the total complement of every pitcher’s repertoire, as tagged by PitchInfo.

That visible might be obtainable for all pitchers who’ve the information we have to generate it (which ought to embody Triple-A and a few decrease minors pitchers), however those that don’t will as a substitute get a desk akin to the batters, with pertinent data.

Subsequent we’ll transfer to the place the majority of the replace has taken place. Due to the tireless efforts of Tom Gieryn and Robert Au, we’ve got overhauled each the tabs and what metrics seem in tabs on each leaderboards and participant playing cards. Extra importantly, although, we’ve added a major quantity of performance when it comes to what you are able to do with that knowledge. Rob Mains highlighted a few of this performance in his article at this time, however I’ll focus on slightly extra as nicely. Under is Mookie Betts’ card:

The very first thing you’ll discover on this part is the huge variety of new embody and filter choices. These are tremendously highly effective in what they will let you question. As you’ll anticipate, on participant playing cards it will apply solely to the participant in query, however broadly the identical set of choices might be obtainable on leaderboards as nicely.

Subsequent you’ll be aware the sequence of the participant card stats on the Abstract tab has modified, with essentially the most notable distinction being that WARP occupies the right-most column, with its necessary element components straight previous it.

One adjustment I’m really enthusiastic about is the addition of the Deserved Totals and Deserved Charges tabs:

The impetus for these tabs is that we all know that deserved metrics aren’t at all times essentially the most intuitive. Among the changes our flagship metrics make beneath the floor aren’t at all times easy to ferret out, even when you recognize what to search for. To that finish, we’ve got tabs that be aware the “noticed” totals and charges (what truly occurred) and put them facet by facet with the deserved totals and charges. This could present readability, not solely that an adjustment is being made, however what the knock-on results are, of say, a decrease deserved dwelling run price than noticed dwelling run price. These balls that will be homers may very well be reallocated to doubles or outs or walks or…any variety of issues. However now you possibly can see the place they’re going.

Whereas the above is Betts’ card, the identical setup might be current on pitcher playing cards as nicely.

One other factor people have been asking about for a while is to have SEAGER obtainable on playing cards and leaderboards. Ask no extra, you’ll discover it beneath the Plate Self-discipline tab:

And the final change to group of the tabs I need to spotlight is the addition of common exit velocity, ninetieth Percentile EV, Max EV, and launch angle to participant playing cards.

Earlier than we go away you to mess around (and please, do mess around!) with all of those new options, I need to spotlight one other one of many issues I’m most enthusiastic about inside this replace. Bear in mind once I talked about all of the contains and filters being obtainable on participant playing cards (and leaderboards) now? A type of filters is one thing people have been asking for for a very long time: arbitrary endpoint splits.

So for instance, let’s say you recognize Pete Crow-Armstrong had a powerful second half on the plate, however needed to see his course of stats that led to these good numbers. You’ll be able to head over to the Batted Ball tab, choose the date filter and choose 8/1/2024-9/30/2024:

And discover…that regardless of the great outcomes (good .621 SLGCON!), his common EV was solely 85.4 throughout this era of play. (You’ll be aware that ninetieth EV isn’t obtainable beneath this break up, and that would be the case for numerous metrics that aren’t split-able (or helpful when break up in sure methods) all through the playing cards and leaderboards.)

You’ll be able to then head over to the Abstract tab to see what this meant for his DRC+ on this time—the filter will maintain as you bounce between tabs:

A 105 DRC+ is stable, however nicely under the .803 OPS he recorded on this time. You’ll be able to even see what his deserved OPS can be (.734) because of a decrease dwelling price per DRC+, within the Deserved Charges tab:

These similar splits and tabs might be obtainable for pitchers, as nicely, together with the repertoire-specific data you’ve come to anticipate on pitcher playing cards.

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I hope you’ve loved this jaunt by way of our overhauled participant playing cards (and leaderboards) as a lot as I’ve loved strolling you thru it. I’m past enthusiastic about these updates, and hope (and anticipate) you’ll discover them exceptionally helpful. They’d not be remotely attainable with out the unbelievably laborious work put in by Tom, Robert, Patrick Dubuque, Rob Mains, and extra. We hope you like them!

And sure…we have already got further updates deliberate.