In my last segment of APBA’s 2009 baseball set by the numbers, I’m going to break down at some of the more esoteric (ok, esoteric for us Basic Game guys) ratings used by the computer game. Hopefully, that will give you an idea of the value of a rating in comparison to the rest of the Major League.
But first, let’s look at the Speed breakdown. Nothing too exciting…
Speed Ratings
| # of players rated F | 171 |
| # of players rated S | 104 |
I had a request from the APBA BTL forums to break down the catchers’ ratings. Here they are. These are all 74 players that had a ‘C’ rating.
Catchers’ Th ratings
| Th +6 | 2 |
| Th +5 | 3 |
| Th +4 | 7 |
| Th +3 | 4 |
| Th +2 | 8 |
| Th +1 | 4 |
| Th 0 | 10 |
| Th –1 | 14 |
| Th –2 | 7 |
| Th –3 | 6 |
| Th –4 | 9 |
Who had the biggest (or at least most accurate) cannons behind the plate at least according to APBA?
Highest Individual Th ratings
| Kenji Johjima | Sea | Th +6 |
| Dave Ross | Atl | Th +6 |
| Ryan Hanigan | Cin | Th +5 |
| Lou Marson | Cle | Th +5 |
| Humberto Quintero | Hou | Th +5 |
Plenty of Th –4 catchers to choose from but Boston fans will have to play Jason Varitek over 100 games. I can sympathize because I have him on my team.
Now, let’s look at some pitcher ratings. I’ll start with the move to first (MF) rating.
Pitchers’ MF ratings
| MF 3 | 32 |
| MF 2 | 61 |
| MF 1 | 116 |
| MF 0 | 233 |
Homerun ratings are always interesting…
| G | 88 |
| H | 26 |
| L | 89 |
| M | 22 |
The highest graded pitchers with an M rating were Brett Tomko who was a 7z starter and Dan Wheeler who was a 12xz reliever.
Scot Shields who was a 2w, still managed an H rating.
Pitchers’ Wild Pitch (WP) ratings.
| WP 3 | 220 |
| WP 2 | 65 |
| WP 1 | 104 |
| WP 0 | 53 |
And here are the all-or-nothing Balk (BK) and Hit Batsman (HB) ratings. Among the 442 pitchers this is how many got rated 0.
| BK 0 | 337 |
| HB 0 | 45 |
That’s about it. If you haven’t seen the 2009 APBA Position Players by the numbers or 2009 APBA Pitchers by the numbers, check them out. I love crunching numbers and had fun doing this.
