Pitches per At Bat. (AB)

[svpackerfan]

Can iScore produce average pitches per at bat by game and season total ?

Thank you,

SVLL

[elcray]

If you have the team website option, you can use the API.

Specifically this link:
http://api.iscoresports.com/teamwebsite ... D&g=GAMEID" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Each PitchID record lists the specific details about each pitch. I use this to calculate several things, but mostly, as you were looking for, to calculate exactly how many innings a pitcher pitched. I don't use the traditional "5 2/3" innings because I have always thought that was useless and vague. 2/3's of an inning might be 6 pitches and 2 batters or it might be 40 pitches and 10 batters. I calculate innings pitched by number of pitches pitched / number of pitches in an inning. It looks wierd to see something like 4.456 innings pitched, but it is more accurate.

[svpackerfan]

I didn't ask the question with enough detail. Sorry for that. I am looking to compare player by player the number of pitches they are looking at for each AT BAT. For instance if Joe has 3 AB's and 15 pitches his average pitches per at bat is 5. Bob, has 3 at bats and 9 total pitches. His average pitchs per at bat is 3. Can I get this from iScore?

[FTMSupport]

Yes, these statistics are available. Here is the legend for the stats available:

http://data.iscorecentral.com/legend.php?s=baseball2

If you look in the Batting Quality section, you will see there are many statistics available for things like P5, P6, P7, P8... which are the number of at bats with 5+, 6+, 7+, 8+ etc pitches per at bat.

These numbers are probably more telling than the specific question you asked.

Using your example of 3 ABs and 15 pitches, yes, the average would be 5, but the reality is he may have had 2 x 1 pitch AB, and 1 x 13 pitch. That would not be the same as someone that truly gets a P5 in most of his at bats.