Identifying Struggling Pitchers with P.I.N.E.
I’ll be honest. P.I.N.E. is having some trouble. Pitchers in Need of Extraction, or P.I.N.E. to keep baseball jargon at an all-time high of acronym and buzz-word soup, is a simplistic model I developed to flag starting pitchers who have displayed some warning signs. P.I.N.E. flags statistics that have deviated from what that pitcher has done over a larger period, albeit in small data samples. That’s the most obvious issue. Taking small samples of volatile pitching data, in this case, the last 14 days or typically two starts per pitcher, and then comparing it to the last two years of a pitcher’s data, is tricky. Anything can happen in two starts and that’s why P.I.N.E. is not a model that should be automated to make your fantasy baseball decisions for you. Instead, it should present information that you otherwise may have ignored. Read the rest of this entry »
