Tuesday, July 25, 2006

SDMB Historical Anomalies / Home and Road Performance

I've loaded historical data for the teams' performances from 2002-2007 into my SDMB OOTP excel spreadsheet. (I blame the delay in the simming for this. Whenever the sim gets delayed, I find new things to look at which enable me to procrastinate at work.) Data is pretty limited right now for 2002, but I've got a lot to work with from 2003-07. I've just started looking at the numbers, but I'll post the odd things I find as I run across them and as time permits.

Today, I'll post about teams' home and road performances. This is just 2003-07, as I don't have the splits for 2002.

Best Home Record
1. Houston 2004: 60-21
2. Seattle 2005: 58-23
3t. Stockholm 2004 and Florida, 2007: 54-27

Worst Home Record
1t. Austin 2004 and Houston 2007: 21-60
3. Hickory 2005: 24-57

Best Road Record
1. Seattle 2007: 57-24
2. Stockholm, 2005: 55-26
3. Seattle 2005: 54-27

Worst Road Record
1t. Butte 2004 and Danville 2007: 21-60
3t. Austin 2005 and Houston, 2007: 22-59

Biggest Differential between Home Wins and Road Wins
1. Virginia 2003, +16 at home (50-31 vs. 37-44)
2t. Hickory 2004, +13 at home (36-45 vs. 23-58)
2t. Houston 2004, +13 at home (60-21 vs. 47-34)

1t. Hickory 2006, -14 at home (30-51 vs. 44-37)
1t. Seattle 2007, -14 at home (43-38 vs. 57-24)
3. Houston 2006, -13 at home (30-51 vs. 43-38)

Miscellaneous Facts
1. The combined home winning percentage from 2003-2007 is .510 (2312-2224).
2. The 2004 Adams League had the highest home winning percentage for a league, .547 (266-220).
3. The 2006 Adams League had the lowest home winning percentage for a league, .461 (224-262). That year, all six teams had a winning record on the road.
4. The biggest historical differentials between home and road wins are +26 for the Virginia/River Cities franchise and -7 for Seattle. None of the four expansion franchises have a percentage differential greater than those two, so that's not just an artifact of the extra season (2003).
5. Hickory (-2), Seattle (-7), and Kingston/Walla Walla (-2) are the only franchises with better historical marks on the road than at home.
6. Houston is the closest to being even with records of 197-208 at home and 196-209 on the road.

I think this stuff is kind of interesting. If anyone agrees, let me know. Otherwise, I'll keep my observations to myself. :-)

2 comments:

  1. It's interesting to me, but then, I'm the guy who makes a line graph of the teams' progress every week.

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  2. Me, too. I'm always looking for hidden indicators of how to win in this league.

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