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Updated Projections - Game 57 of 162

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Marty Coleman
May 31, 2024
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Composition of Projections:

2024 Actuals: 35.2%

Preseason Projections: 64.8%

The Astros are 25-32, in 3rd place in the American League West, 5.5 games behind the Seattle Mariners.

Fangraphs projects an 83-79 finish, 2nd place in the AL West, gives the Astros a 28.4% chance of winning the Division and a 40.7% chance of making the playoffs.

Season Projections

Stress Index

The goal is to capture the stress put on a pitcher, rather than just a number of pitches.

The calculation is really simple: Number of pitches x aLI, where aLI is the average leverage index.

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Biggest Play

Top 4, runner on 2nd, 2 outs, 0-0. Alex Bregman homered (Liner). Kyle Tucker scored.

Astros win probability went from 48.2% to 71.6% (+23.3%).


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The Home Run Project

Alex Bregman: 102.8 MPH exit velo, 20-degree launch angle, 358 feet, 1.47 LI.

Victor Carartini: 104.0 MPH exit velo, 30-degree launch angle, 398 feet, 0.65 LI.

The Grumpy Ump

Under: 32 Over: 21 Push: 4

NOTE: OVERALL FAVOR column is changed to reflect Astros only. In other words, a +0.24 in favor of Yankees is reflected as -0.24 here.

Information, except for O/U, courtesy of umpscorecards.com, just presented in a way that is easier for my brain to process.

Projected Standings and Luck Rankings

Astros project to 77-85. See Stats of the Day below for additional projections.

Luck Rankings

Teams at top are “luckiest”, teams at bottom are “unluckiest”.

Astros near “unluckiest” team in MLB.

The Astros are 5-12 in one-run games.

This is the percentage of a team’s winning percentage that can be attributed to “luck”, either positive (green) or negative (red).

Example: At one point the Astros win % was .439 and my numbers say they “should” have been at .493, a difference of .054.

.054/.439 = 12.3% (rounded), which is the Astros luck rating, which is negative in this case.

In general, you expect the teams at bottom to regress positively (towards 0.00) and teams at top to regress negatively (to 0.00).

Stat(s) of the Day

Expected Wins

Quality Starts

Across the league teams win close to 70% of games where their team’s starter throws a quality start.

It is closer to 80% if your pitcher has a quality start and the other team’s pitcher does not throw a quality start.

Simply put, it’s indicative of “keeping your team in the game”.

Saves and Such

Everyone knows saves and blown saves. Shutdowns and Meltdowns are a Fangraphs stat that I find very useful.

Ronel Blanco

The Astros are 8-1 when Ronel Blanco starts and 17-31 when someone else starts.

Blanco has six quality starts and the team is 5-1 in those games.

He missed two additional quality starts (both Astros wins) by a single out each.

MLB Power Rankings

On a scale where 100.00 = 81 wins. In other words, a power number of 110.00 means you would be expected to win 110% of the “average team” (81 wins) which equals 89 games.

These rankings consider runs scored, runs given up AND wins and losses.

50.00 = 40.50 wins

75.00 = 60.75 wins

100.00 = 81.00 wins

125.00 = 101.25 wins

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