ERA in 1999

[Romagnus]

Hey all, I was just wondering what happened during the '99 season that produced such obscure ERA numbers. I'm doing my final project for Data Management on whether ERA or BA from the regular season has a stronger effect on the results of the world series. If anyone has any pointers on that as well, it'd be greatly appreciated :) . As well, would there be any particular place I could find an article on this or anything? Couldn't find anything useful on MLB.com...

Roma

[Baseball Guru]

Hey all, I was just wondering what happened during the '99 season that produced such obscure ERA numbers. I'm doing my final project for Data Management on whether ERA or BA from the regular season has a stronger effect on the results of the world series. If anyone has any pointers on that as well, it'd be greatly appreciated :) . As well, would there be any particular place I could find an article on this or anything? Couldn't find anything useful on MLB.com...

Roma


1st off welcome to the site.. I hope that you will continue to come talk baseball with us even after your project:wave1:

2nd, not finding anything useful on mlb.com is not all that uncommon... You usually can't find anything useful there:D

3rd, I'm a little confused about your question on the era's in 1999? The NL era for that year was 4.56, the AL was 4.86.. Nothing really abnormal about those era's...

Here are the last 10 years league era's:

American League:
Year
2004 4.63
2003 4.53
2002 4.46
2001 4.47
2000 4.91
1999 4.86
1998 4.65
1997 4.57
1996 5.00
1995 4.71
1994 4.80

National League:
Year
2004 4.30
2003 4.28
2002 4.10
2001 4.35
2000 4.63
1999 4.56
1998 4.24
1997 4.21
1996 4.22
1995 4.18
1994 4.22

[Romagnus]

Hmm....Looky here (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/stats_historical/mlb_historical_team_stats.jsp?baseballScope=AL&teamPosCode=all&groupByTeam=true&subScope=teamCode&statType=2&sitSplit=&timeFrame=1&timeSubFrame=1999) All of those are twice the norm. They were the same in a stats program I downloaded.

Roma

[Baseball Guru]

LMAO!!!

Where the hell did MLB.com get those #'s... There is NO WAY those are correct....

Roma, take a look at this site for accurate stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/

Click on the league and then go down till it shows Pitching Totals you can scroll down and look at the league era for every year in every league...

There must be an error at mlb.com for that particular year...

[imgreat95]

holy crap batman... where did MLB get those??

[Baseball Guru]

I think I already asked that Shon..

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[Romagnus]

Alright, thanks alot! ^_^

Jimminy Jillikers Radioactiveman!

[imgreat95]

no, jaymez, i do not believe you made a post about batman...

check your facts before you try to accuse me of thievery, why don't you?