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Smart Stats -- The Fast Version

Publication Date: September 20, 2005

Enough Words, Here Are Some Numbers

I've always done a series of three columns giving more advanced stats for offensive, pitching, and defensive performances. Frankly, I've said about all I can about these stats by this point, so this year you're just going to get the leaders in the three categories in one handy listing; hit the archive for more details on any of them.

AOPS

Rank  Team                     Player                   AOPS

  1   Tennessee                Chase Headley            1.434
  2   Mississippi              Brian Pettway            1.415
  3   Louisiana State          Ryan Patterson           1.387
  4   Washington               Matt Hague               1.348
  5   Auburn                   Karl Amonite             1.334
  6   Arkansas                 Casey Rowlett            1.331
  7   Miami, Florida           Ryan Braun               1.319
  8   Alabama                  Gabe Scott               1.314
  9   South Carolina           Steve Pearce             1.312
 10   Long Beach State         Troy Tulowitzki          1.308
 11   Nebraska                 Alex Gordon              1.308
 12   Southern California      Jeff Clement             1.300
 13   Louisiana State          Nick Stavinoha           1.290
 14   Tennessee                Eli Iorg                 1.288
 15   Tulane                   Micah Owings             1.278
 16   Arkansas                 Scott Bridges            1.275
 17   Arizona State            Jeff Larish              1.273
 18   Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Jaime Landin             1.259
 19   Oregon State             Jacoby Ellsbury          1.258
 20   Florida                  Matt Laporta             1.257
 21   Coastal Carolina         Mike Costanzo            1.256
 22   Arizona                  Trevor Crowe             1.253
 23   Vanderbilt               Mike Baxter              1.247
 24   Pepperdine               Chad Tracy               1.239
 25   Florida State            Shane Robinson           1.239
 26   Mississippi              Stephen Head             1.234
 27   Nicholls State           Anthony Hatch            1.230
 28   Pacific                  Justin Baum              1.227
 29   Mississippi              Mark Wright              1.223
 30   Arkansas State           Geoff Desmond            1.219
 31   Fresno State             Beau Mills               1.217
 32   Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Charles Carter           1.215
 33   Davidson                 Jay Heafner              1.215
 34   Cal State Fullerton      Sergio Pedroza           1.210
 35   Stanford                 Jed Lowrie               1.205
 36   Minnesota                Joe Maciej               1.205
 37   Campbell                 Mike Priest              1.194
 38   Louisiana State          Clay Harris              1.194
 39   Houston                  Kevin Roberts            1.189
 40   George Washington        Ryan Roberson            1.187
 41   Bowling Green State      Nolan Reimold            1.182
 42   Savannah State           Gerald Smith             1.181
 43   George Mason             Cooksey                  1.180
 44   Dallas Baptist           Damian Gomez             1.178
 45   Arizona                  Nick Hundley             1.178
 46   Oregon State             Andy Jenkins             1.176
 47   Middle Tennessee State   Todd Martin              1.176
 48   Auburn                   Clete Thomas             1.176
 49   Notre Dame               Matt Edwards             1.176
 50   Hawaii-Hilo              Johnny Dudoit            1.175

RBOA

Player                   Team                     RBOA

Kevin Slowey             Winthrop                 67.35
Lance Broadway           Texas Christian          60.48
Luke Hochevar            Tennessee                58.40
Kyle McCulloch           Texas                    56.63
Mike Pelfrey             Wichita State            54.85
Ricky Romero             Cal State Fullerton      53.90
Max Scherzer             Missouri                 53.76
Ian Kennedy              Southern California      50.25
Mickey Storey            Florida Atlantic         49.72
Cesar Carrillo           Miami, Florida           49.46
Johnny Dorn              Nebraska                 48.71
Joba Chamberlain         Nebraska                 48.61
James Adkins             Tennessee                48.18
Chris Nicoll             UC Irvine                48.05
Adrian Alaniz            Texas                    47.76
Erik Averill             Arizona State            46.92
Cesar Ramos              Long Beach State         46.91
Jeff Kamrath             Virginia                 46.68
J. Brent Cox             Texas                    45.67
Jonah Nickerson          Oregon State             44.41
Micah Owings             Tulane                   44.23
Garrett Olson            Cal Poly                 44.03
Joe Savery               Rice                     43.57
Brian Bogusevic          Tulane                   42.81
Mark McCormick           Baylor                   42.54
Trey Hearne              Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 42.41
Heath Rollins            Winthrop                 42.10
Ryan Schreppel           Cal State Fullerton      41.94
Bryan Henry              Florida State            41.65
Dennis Bigley            Oral Roberts             41.52
Bernard Robert           Southeastern Louisiana   41.44
Randy Boone              Texas                    41.20
John Madden              Auburn                   41.04
Ryan Lamotta             Baylor                   40.89
Matt Scott               Middle Tennessee State   40.13
Marco Estrada            Long Beach State         40.10
Robert Woodard           North Carolina           39.79
Nick Schmidt             Arkansas                 39.61
Jim Brauer               Michigan                 39.47
Greg Smith               Louisiana State          39.10
Zach Kroenke             Nebraska                 38.87
P. J. Walters            South Alabama            38.37
Dallas Buck              Oregon State             38.33
Zac McCamie              South Carolina           37.99
Jake Baxter              Texas-Arlington          37.91
Justin Cassel            UC Irvine                37.80
Matt Maloney             Mississippi              37.68
Josh Cribb               Clemson                  37.68
Nick Pereira             San Francisco            37.54
Ricky Shefka             Coastal Carolina         37.49

Defensive Efficiency

Without considering errors:

 #    DE1     #    DE2  Team

  1  0.720     2  0.679 Nebraska
  2  0.719     8  0.669 Oregon State
  3  0.718     1  0.682 San Francisco
  4  0.718     3  0.679 Virginia
  5  0.717    10  0.667 Baylor
  6  0.715    12  0.666 Oral Roberts
  7  0.712     9  0.667 Long Beach State
  8  0.710    15  0.657 St. John's
  9  0.709     4  0.674 Texas
 10  0.709    16  0.655 Arkansas
 11  0.708     5  0.670 North Carolina
 12  0.708     6  0.670 North Carolina State
 13  0.705    11  0.667 Northwestern State
 14  0.705     7  0.670 Cal State Fullerton
 15  0.704   101  0.615 Washington
 16  0.702    13  0.663 Texas A&M
 17  0.702    24  0.646 Rice
 18  0.700    14  0.658 Ohio State
 19  0.699    85  0.618 Princeton
 20  0.696    38  0.639 Rhode Island
 21  0.696    59  0.630 Southern Illinois
 22  0.695    18  0.649 Tennessee
 23  0.694    45  0.636 Miami, Florida
 24  0.694    25  0.646 Missouri
 25  0.694    26  0.646 Monmouth

Considering errors:

 #    DE1     #    DE2  Team

  3  0.718     1  0.682 San Francisco
  1  0.720     2  0.679 Nebraska
  4  0.718     3  0.679 Virginia
  9  0.709     4  0.674 Texas
 11  0.708     5  0.670 North Carolina
 12  0.708     6  0.670 North Carolina State
 14  0.705     7  0.670 Cal State Fullerton
  2  0.719     8  0.669 Oregon State
  7  0.712     9  0.667 Long Beach State
  5  0.717    10  0.667 Baylor
 13  0.705    11  0.667 Northwestern State
  6  0.715    12  0.666 Oral Roberts
 16  0.702    13  0.663 Texas A&M
 18  0.700    14  0.658 Ohio State
  8  0.710    15  0.657 St. John's
 10  0.709    16  0.655 Arkansas
 57  0.682    17  0.651 San Jose State
 22  0.695    18  0.649 Tennessee
 58  0.681    19  0.648 Stanford
 33  0.689    20  0.647 South Carolina
 34  0.689    21  0.647 South Dakota State
 50  0.685    22  0.646 Gonzaga
 51  0.685    23  0.646 Grambling State
 17  0.702    24  0.646 Rice
 24  0.694    25  0.646 Missouri

The full defensive efficiency report.

Auction Notes

Kentucky and Cincinnati are the latest staffs to step up to the plate for the Coaches Care auction to benefit Katrina victims. Cincinnati in particular has at least a half-dozen items up, including some neat stuff like taking BP with the team, so I'll just link to the whole list.

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