Gerry Myerson venit, vidit, et dixit:> Dvd Avins <dvdNOavinsSPAM@pobox.com> wrote:
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1925>> 10.0 Dolf Luque>> 8.6 Eppa Rixey>> 8.5 Herb Pennock>> 8.0 Pete Donohue>> 7.7 Stan Coveleski>> 6.9 threshold
Note that Luque, Rixey and Donohue were teammates (and Pennock > was in the other league), and their team still came in 3rd, > 15 games out.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 2002 Red Sox come relatively close to the same thing, when Dvd gets there. Three of the top four AL pitchers in ERA (and ERA+), but tied for the 6th-best record in the league. (Thank you, Jimy Williams).
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"Bob-Nob" <rpmachemer@note.SPamherstAM.edu> wrote in message news:42793dea@amhnt2.amherst.edu...> Gerry Myerson venit, vidit, et dixit:>> Dvd Avins <dvdNOavinsSPAM@pobox.com> wrote:>
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1925>>> 10.0 Dolf Luque>>> 8.6 Eppa Rixey>>> 8.5 Herb Pennock>>> 8.0 Pete Donohue>>> 7.7 Stan Coveleski>>> 6.9 threshold>
Note that Luque, Rixey and Donohue were teammates (and Pennock>> was in the other league), and their team still came in 3rd,>> 15 games out.>
I wouldn't be surprised if the 2002 Red Sox come relatively close> to the same thing, when Dvd gets there. Three of the top four AL> pitchers in ERA (and ERA+), but tied for the 6th-best record in the> league. (Thank you, Jimy Williams).
Jimy was gone by 2002. That was Grady Little's team.
1924> 12.0 Dazzy Vance> 8.9 Herb Pennock> 7.5 Howard Ehmke> 7.4 Sherry Smith> 7.3 threshold
Doing all this by hand, it's inevitable that I'm going to make a couple of mistakes. I just hope and think that there are very few of them. One is that I left Walter Johnson off the 1924 list.
1924 12.0 Dazzy Vance 8.9 Herb Pennock 8.8 Walter Johnson 7.5 Howard Ehmke 7.4 Sherry Smith 7.3 threshold
The other mistake I'm aware of is that for 1871-1900, I am off very slightly in figuring the threshold. That's mostly because I started out with a misunderstanding of how bb-ref handles apparent ties in ERA+. When I get through 2004, I'll go back to the 19th Century and see what difference the threshold error makes. It won't be much.
