Game Scores From this Past Season

Bill James' Game Score statistic is a nifty little metric to use for pitchers to judge their dominance. ESPN typically includes it with their box scores, but you can compute it yourself fairly easily. The way it works is the formula

Gamescore = 50 + (number of outs recorded) + 2(innings completed after the 4th) +
(strikeouts) - 2(hit) - 4(earned runs) - 2(unearned runs) - (walks)

Seems simple enough. So how did last year's Dodgers stack up? Well, here were the basic stats for the team as a whole:

Descriptive Statistics: Dodgers Overall
Games: 162
Mean: 48.64
SE: 1.32
St Dev: 16.86
Min: 9 (Derek Lowe)
Q1: 34
Med: 51
Q3: 63
Max: 79 (Chad Billingsley)

And here are the means for the individual starters:
Kuo: 58.00
Stults: 56.50
Maddux: 53.42
Lowe: 51.59
Billingsley: 50.125
Penny: 49.76
Sele: 47.93
Tomko: 46.20
Seo: 45.20
Hendrickson: 42.00
Odalis: 33.25

Despite having a better ERA for his limited starts than Kuo, Stults did not come out as dominant as the Taiwanese power-pitcher. My intentions are to discuss players in depth more for season preview purposes as time passes, and I'll focus on those players who could still be Dodger starters. So that means no Maddux, no Sele, no Seo, no Odalis, and since I want to use relevant defensive info and park factors, no Schmidt and no Wolf either. I'll have something to say about them, though.

The Superbowl is Sunday, so it's definitely just about time to start thinking about baseball.

First post

This is my first Dodger-only blog post. Basically this will be my rantings and ramblings related to the Dodgers. I will at times venture out into Major League Baseball as a whole, and on rare occasions, other sports. But for the most part, this will be about the Dodgers.

Disclaimer: I can't promise I won't ramble or get frustrated, and I'd rate the language on the blog as a potential PG-13.

That said, I hope you enjoy the blog. If you don't, that's ok, I won't cry. If you do, awesome.