Here are some fun stats and stuff that we follow during the regular season.

Extra stats = Extra fun

If some stats are good. Then more must be better. (smile)

I start with the raw data, our weekly boxscores from Yahoo:

season_stats.pdf

That gets folded, spindled and mutilated into these stat spreadsheets each week:

• Week 3:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Naperville)
• Week 4:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Killer Maltese)
• Week 5:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (KGG)
• Week 6:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Beard)
• Week 7:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Plano)
• Week 8:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Plano)
• Week 9:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (KGG)
• Week 10:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Okay Team)
• Week 11:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (CRYOTED)
• Week 12:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Southern Rocket)
• Week 13:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (San Antonio Kindness)
• Week 14:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Notorious BEARD)
• Week 15:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~   team otw (Naperville Meerkat)
• Week 16:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~  
  team otw (Southern Rocket)   ~   heat map <~~ new!
• Week 17:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~  
  team otw (San Antonio Kindness)   ~   heat map
• Week 18:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~  
  team otw (San Antonio Kindness)   ~   heat map
• Week 19:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~  
  team otw (San Antonio Kindness)   ~   heat map
• Week 20:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~  
  team otw (NOTO Beard)   ~   heat map
• Week 21:   standings   ~   averages   ~   nipr   ~  
  team otw (Naperville Meerkat)   ~   heat map

Explanation (yawn)

The process is pretty easy. It stats Monday morning. I copy-paste the boxscores from Yahoo into a spreadsheet. Here's that (pretty) raw Yahoo data:

season_stats.pdf

Then I munge the weekly boxscore data to get these sheets:

• standings - current standings as of this week
• team otw - the team "Of The Week" is the one with the best average ranking across all the categories
• averages - Each teams season average in each category; I also show the best, worst and average for each cat
• nipr - NIPR stands for New and Improved Power Ranking; for more explanation scroll to the bottom of any NIPR page or read my paragraph below (or don't)

NIPR is the most complicated of all this gibberish. It's the Z Score of each team for each category over the season so far. The Z Score is the number of standard deviations better or worse than the mean you are. For most people, this stuff is blindingly boring, but it's not difficult to understand. The Wikipedia explanation is OK, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_score.

You can try this Z Score Calculator. Example: Your team averages 11 home runs a week (wow,congrats!). The league average is 10 home runs per week, and the standard deviation is 1. If you enter these into the calculator, you'll get a Z Score of 1, which stands for 1 standard deviation better than the mean. (that's very strong, btw).

The last step for NIPR is to multiply everything by 100, so that we only deal with whole numbers. So, in the example above, your NIPR for home runs would be 1 * 100 = 100. A NIPR of 100 means your performance is 1 standard deviation better than the average. Again, congrats. If your score were -100, then that's 1 standard deviation worse than average.

That's it. You may ask - what's the point of all this? Absolutely none. (ha) It's just nerdy fun.

thanks... yow, bill