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First, hello, and thanks for stopping by.
The sentence in the heading box atop each page here says it all: baseball team and player performance examined realistically and accurately.
If you want to know in definite, absolute (“absolute” as opposed to relative) numbers why each team is where it is in the standings, and how various players do or don’t help their team, this is the place to find out. Here we daily apply to raw stats proven techniques of modern numerical baseball analysis to generate clear, meaningful team and player measures of performance.
If you are already acquainted with what we do here and how and why, you can just jump into the daily results: use the blue “Teams”, the red “Players”, and the orange “Pitchers” zones in the drop-down site-menu available from the “hamburger” menu icon () in the upper right atop every page here. (The pages available in that menu are discussed farther down this page.)
(Right now the results are, of course, the finals for 2024, but fresh stats will start rolling in as soon as the 2025 season actually opens.)
But if you are not yet acquainted with what we do and how and why, please read on.
If you are new to baseball analysis, or know something about it but not how we do it here, there are some pages you should read before reviewing our daily results. There is, as noted just above, a drop-down site-menu available from the “hamburger” menu icon () in the upper right atop every page here; in that menu are several colored “zones”, as described in more detail below. But there is also a full Google-powered Site-Search Engine up there, at the upper left (just below the images block), where it says Click here to search this site. (clicking that link—but not the one in this sentence!—will drop down a search menu).
For the newcomer here, we urgently recommend a reading of the following pages, preferably in the order shown here (but please first finish reading this page):
For Newcomers
what this site is all about—what it is telling you about baseball, and how, and why
Some Baseball Analysis Theory
a semi-technical backgrounding on modern baseball analysis
About the Team-Performance Table
arguably the most important page here, with a lot packed into it—this explains what it all is
The “Quality of Pitching” Measures
why they are the best way to evaluate pitching
Fielding and Defense in Baseball
how important defense is or isn’t in baseball, and how to correctly evaluate it
Baseball Stat Definitions
the standard and the unique statistics we present
Baseball Data Normalization
how we do or don’t correct for what, and why
(For a deeper dive see the purple-zone pages listed farther below on this page.)
There is a huge amount of daily-updated data presented on over fifteen hundred pages on this site. Here is a guide to what we have for you. We hope that the “hamburger” drop-down menu atop each page is clear enough to guide you, but the material below fleshes out the necessarily short menu tags.
There are three team-level data pages plus four sets of 30 individual team pages. Those various pages are:
The Main Team-Performance Table Set
this page has so much information in it that we made a separate page just to explain all the data packed onto it.
By-Team Performance by Players & Pitchers
there are four 30-page (one per team) sets of team stats; the pages linked below are each a “portal” page from which you select the particular team you want to see.
Showing Team & Player Current-Season Data
this shows individual player & pitcher stat lines plus team & league lines
Showing Team & Player Career Data
like the above, only showing full-career data lines rather than this season’s
Team & Player Current vs. Expected Stats, Batting
this shows, for each player, both their actual raw stats for this season and what would be expected (for the same play time) based on their career-to-date stats; it gives a quick idea of who is above or below expectation and—quite
important—by how much in actual events (hits, walks, whatever).
Team & Player Current vs. Expected Stats, Pitching
like the above set, only for pitchers instead of position players.
All-Teams Table: Win Expectations From Player Career Stats
this shows how good each team is “on paper”—that is, how many wins would normally be expected of each based on the career-to-date stats of its players & pitchers pro-rated for actual play time (thus it can change daily).
All-Teams Table: Defense
How good each team’s “whole-team-level” defense is, and how it is likely to be affecting wins totals.
There are eight sets of pages for batters. Those include listings, both current-season and career, by name, by position played, by performance, by performance per position played, and more; check out the various descriptions below for the full panoply.
In addition, there is a large set of individual-man data pages; those are not listed in the menus (or here), but you can get to any man’s page from links in any tabulation page that includes that man (the all-batters page necessarily includes all men, but there are—as you will see below—many other pages also listing men).
Sorted by Performance:
Current-Season Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats, 500 Plate Appearances Minimum:
leaves off men whose data don’t mean much yet, to avoid clutter.
Sorted by Name:
Current-Season Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats, 500 Plate Appearances Minimum:
leaves off men whose data don’t mean much yet, to avoid clutter.
In Performance Order by Position(s) Played, Current Season:
Alphabetically by Position(s) Played, Current Season:
In Performance Order by Position(s) Played, Career:
Alphabetically by Position(s) Played, Career:
Frequent-Use Position Players, by performance:
showing all “regulars” sorted by TOP.
Frequent-Use Position Players, by name:
showing all “regulars” sorted alphabetically.
There are eight sets of pages for pitchers. Those include listings, both current-season and career, by name, by pitching role, by performance, by performance per pitching role, and more; check out the various descriptions below for the full panoply.
In addition, there is a large set of individual-man data pages; those are not listed in the menus (or here), but you can get to any man’s page from links in any tabulation page that includes that man (the all-pitchers page necessarily includes all men, but there are—as you will see below—many other pages also listing men).
Sorted by Performance:
Current-Season Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats, 500 BFPs Minimum:
leaves off men whose data don’t mean much yet, to avoid clutter.
Sorted by Name:
Current-Season Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats:
showing all men in one master tabulation.
Career Stats, 500 BFPs Minimum:
leaves off men whose data don’t mean much yet, to avoid clutter.
In Performance Order by Pitching Role, Current Season:
Alphabetically by Pitching Role, Current Season:
In Performance Order by Pitching Role, Career:
Alphabetically by Pitching Role, Career:
Frequent-Use Starters and Relievers, by performance:
showing all “regulars” sorted by TOP.
Frequent-Use Starters and Relievers, by name:
showing all “regulars” sorted alphabetically.
In addition to the many pages listed above, there are some others, and we recommend that you look these over as well:
The Owlcroft Baseball-Analysis formulas Tested
the formulas run against over seven decades’ worth of all-MLB data
The Owlcroft Baseball-Analysis Formula: Tabulated Data
the actual data points shown in the graph on the page just above
Calculating the Effects of Fielding on Wins
how much each team’s variance from average fielding affects its wins total
Making Optimum Use of Players and Pitchers
the page title is self-descriptive
About Owlcroft
who we are and why we might know what we’re talking about
Links About Eric Walker
material from across the web referencing us
Links To A Select Few Other Useful Baseball Sites
also self-descriptive
Steroids and Baseball
why just about everything you think you know about them is wrong
(that is now a separate full site of its own)
The Juiced Ball
why baseball before and after 1993—and with even more drama in more recent years—is really a very different game
We have compiled what we believe is a sound guide to some of the most important books available for the reader interested in modern baseball analysis, plus a few of a more general nature—but we tried to keep the list to books that offer some significant insight into the game and its workings. Those books are listed on our Selected Baseball Books page here; but we also have a page about Buying Books On Line, with a lot of interesting material (such as the criteria for labelling the condition of used books).
The Selected Baseball Books page not only lists our recommended books, it provides for each a link whereby you may see bookseller offerings of used and (when applicable) new copies, including their conditions and prices—and, if you choose, buy a particular copy through AbeBooks. (Full disclosure: we are an AbeBooks affiliate, and would get some pittance if you do buy anything through our links).
Buying Books On Line
(as described above)
Selected Baseball Books
(as described above)
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