1. 04-21-11 06:28 PM #1
    Grinder12000
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    MLB Early season Complete game syndrum

    I've started noticing that when a pitcher throws a complete game early in the season two things happen.

    1. The first is that he had to have a REAL good game in order for his manager to allow hit to go 9 innings.

    2. His next game he seems to be overrated and does not do as well.

    My feeling is that complete games take much more out of a pitcher then just his number of pitches. There are the additional warm up tosses, another 1 or 2 AB's more fielding and just more wear and tear.

    I have not done any real analyses on this yet so I don't have any real numerbs to back up my claim but every time I have bet against a complete game pitcher this year I've won or have been "in the game" with a chance.


    Or is this a system? new here sorry - not sure where I can post this yet!
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  2. 04-22-11 04:18 AM #2
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    You should be able to build an SDQL query to get this data.
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  3. 04-22-11 01:13 PM #3
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    Yea - if I had the tools!
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  4. 04-22-11 02:25 PM #4
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    Dump retrosheet file to an SQL database then use PHP to query for any starts after a complete game
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