An Equally Exciting Update to Our Player Cards

[My best Professor Farnsworth voice]

Excellent news everybody!

We’re extraordinarily excited and joyful to announce an extended overdue and labor-intensive replace to our leaderboards and participant playing cards! This put up will focus totally on the participant playing cards, however in one other bit of excellent information, there’s going to be an enormous quantity of overlap between the choices accessible on participant playing cards and leaderboards from this level ahead. So in case you develop into comfy utilizing one, you’ll be fairly content material utilizing the opposite as effectively.

Let’s begin from the highest down. A lot of the data on the prime of the cardboard stays the identical, with the biographical information, stats overview, and up to date articles. The primary main change is as a substitute of a field that has, for a number of years, mentioned the at-a-glance part might be coming quickly…there’s really an at-a-glance part!

For batters, that entails the outdated standbys, but in addition related swing resolution info, launch angle, ninetieth percentile exit velocity, and defensive metrics.

For pitchers, you’re handled to Stephen Sutton-Brown’s glorious work that plots the motion of every pitcher’s choices on the right-hand facet, with the corresponding StuffPro grades on the left-hand facet. This additionally, essentially, will give you the complete complement of every pitcher’s repertoire, as tagged by PitchInfo.

That visible might be accessible for all pitchers who’ve the information we have to generate it (which ought to embody Triple-A and a few decrease minors pitchers), however those that don’t will as a substitute get a desk akin to the batters, with pertinent info.

Subsequent we’ll transfer to the place the majority of the replace has taken place. Due to the tireless efforts of Tom Gieryn and Robert Au, we have now overhauled each the tabs and what metrics seem in tabs on each leaderboards and participant playing cards. Extra importantly, although, we’ve added a major quantity of performance when it comes to what you are able to do with that knowledge. Rob Mains highlighted a few of this performance in his article in the present day, however I’ll focus on a bit extra as effectively. Under is Mookie Betts’ card:

The very first thing you’ll discover on this part is the large variety of new embody and filter choices. These are tremendously highly effective in what they help you question. As you’d anticipate, on participant playing cards it will apply solely to the participant in query, however broadly the identical set of choices might be accessible on leaderboards as effectively.

Subsequent you’ll word the sequence of the participant card stats on the Abstract tab has modified, with essentially the most notable distinction being that WARP occupies the right-most column, with its necessary part elements immediately previous it.

One adjustment I’m really enthusiastic about is the addition of the Deserved Totals and Deserved Charges tabs:

The impetus for these tabs is that we all know that deserved metrics should not at all times essentially the most intuitive. Among the changes our flagship metrics make below the floor aren’t at all times easy to ferret out, even when you realize what to search for. To that finish, we have now tabs that word the “noticed” totals and charges (what really occurred) and put them facet by facet with the deserved totals and charges. This could present readability, not solely that an adjustment is being made, however what the knock-on results are, of say, a decrease deserved house run fee than noticed house run fee. These balls that might be homers might be reallocated to doubles or outs or walks or…any variety of issues. However now you possibly can see the place they’re going.

Whereas the above is Betts’ card, the identical setup might be current on pitcher playing cards as effectively.

One other factor people have been asking about for a while is to have SEAGER accessible on playing cards and leaderboards. Ask no extra, you’ll discover it below the Plate Self-discipline tab:

And the final change to group of the tabs I need to spotlight is the addition of common exit velocity, ninetieth Percentile EV, Max EV, and launch angle to participant playing cards.

Earlier than we depart you to mess around (and please, do mess around!) with all of those new options, I need to spotlight one other one of many issues I’m most enthusiastic about inside this replace. Bear in mind after I talked about all of the contains and filters being accessible on participant playing cards (and leaderboards) now? A kind of filters is one thing people have been asking for for a very long time: arbitrary endpoint splits.

So for instance, let’s say you realize Pete Crow-Armstrong had a robust second half on the plate, however needed to see his course of stats that led to these good numbers. You’ll be able to head over to the Batted Ball tab, choose the date filter and choose 8/1/2024-9/30/2024:

And discover…that regardless of the good outcomes (good .621 SLGCON!), his common EV was solely 85.4 throughout this era of play. (You’ll word that ninetieth EV isn’t accessible below this break up, and that would be the case for numerous metrics that aren’t split-able (or helpful when break up in sure methods) all through the playing cards and leaderboards.)

You’ll be able to then head over to the Abstract tab to see what this meant for his DRC+ on this time—the filter will maintain as you bounce between tabs:

A 105 DRC+ is strong, however effectively under the .803 OPS he recorded on this time. You’ll be able to even see what his deserved OPS could be (.734) due to a decrease house fee per DRC+, within the Deserved Charges tab:

These identical splits and tabs might be accessible for pitchers, as effectively, together with the repertoire-specific info you’ve come to anticipate on pitcher playing cards.

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I hope you’ve loved this jaunt by way of our overhauled participant playing cards (and leaderboards) as a lot as I’ve loved strolling you thru it. I’m past enthusiastic about these updates, and hope (and anticipate) you’ll discover them exceptionally helpful. They’d not be remotely attainable with out the unbelievably onerous work put in by Tom, Robert, Patrick Dubuque, Rob Mains, and extra. We hope you’re keen on them!

And sure…we have already got further updates deliberate.