Method of evaluating the performance of a relief pitcher in the late innings of a baseball game

摘要

A method of evaluating the performance of a relief pitcher in the late innings of a baseball game factors through data as to when a pitcher inherits at least one player on base. The following steps of the method are disclosed: first, establishing the number of runs R scored by such inherited players; second, establishing the number of batters B faced in such innings; and, finally, evaluating the save-run average SRA according to the formula: ;where k is a predetermined constant selected to scale the SRA to a desired magnitude.