Of your analytical skills.
Below you will find a list of teams A-L with their top nine home run hitters. They are listed in order of their top home run hitter. The number in parentheses is the total of home runs hit by their top nine. Which of these teams, all things being equal, will score the most runs? Which will have the most games with one or more home runs hit?
A: 54, 31, 25, 20, 18, 17, 17, 13, 8 (203)
B: 50, 36, 33, 30, 20, 20, 16, 15, 13 (233)
C: 47, 34, 24, 23, 22, 21, 21, 18, 12 (222)
D: 46, 33, 32, 29, 24, 20, 18, 10, 9 (221)
E: 40, 31, 26, 25, 21, 20, 18, 17, 16 (214)
F: 35, 26, 22, 21, 21, 19, 15, 11, 11 (181)
G: 35, 34, 29, 27, 27, 22, 21, 19, 19 (233)
H: 34, 28, 27, 24, 24, 24, 21, 19, 16 (217)
I: 32, 30, 26, 24, 18, 17, 16, 15, 11 (189)
J: 30, 30, 30, 28, 28, 26, 16, 11, 10 (209)
K: 30, 29, 25, 24, 24, 22, 19, 11, 7 (191)
L: 26, 25, 21, 17, 14, 14, 14, 12, 10 (153)
7 comments:
assuming the statistics are honest and play out like they SHOULD.
my team is not listed. my home run numbers should be;
30- Teixeira
29- Hanley
25- Atkins
24- Sizemore
24- Rios
22- Lee
19- Cano
12- Jeter
11- Crawford
Are the statistics in the game programmed correctly?
well assuming runs ONLY scored from the long ball it would be teams B & G, with all teams except L having on average 1 HR per game, assuming the 162 game schedule. But i would contend that more runs would come from other sources (ie non-HR RBI's ect) but thats outside the scope of this exercise...
There's no errors. How can you count both Jeter and Lee when neither starts in non-DH games?
Actually, the key to this exercise is not averaging HR per game, but in comparing the mean with the median. The greater the distance between the two, the more runs will be scored, all things even, and the greater number of games with HR. So, despite having the same number of total HR in their seed, Team B would be expected to out-homer Team G over the course of a season the majority of the time. There is still a slight possibility, however, that Teams K or L would outhomer both of them.
But...OOPS! I left a 3B off a certain team's list, so I will go ahead and reformat the post.
because you said the your teams top nine HR hitters, not top nine starters HR totals. I counted my top nine HR hitters on my active 25 man rosters. Why was no Atkins listed and why was cano at 17 instead of 19?
Well... I think that Team C (cough... Brooklyn) will score more runs because that team can get on base, steal the next base and single him in, OR get on base and hit a double and be able to score from first. Oh and Team C's homerun total isn't too shabby especially considering the ballpark of one player and health of another. But for this purpose, I would say Team B would score more runs although my rotation would likely hate pitching against Team G.
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