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cjedmonton
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With another long Canadian winter looming, I thought I'd tackle another mindless project. This time, I'm attempting to rank the most efficient strikeout pitchers of all time. While plenty has already been written about this subject, I thought I'd actually crunch some numbers to see how everyone stacks up.
CRITERIA
A pitcher must have at least one season where he struck out at least 20% of the batters he faced (750 minimum)
That's it!
CATEGORIES
Overall Career (10,000 min)
Top 10 seasons (7,500 min)
Top 5 (3,750 min)
Top 3 (2,250 min)
Single Best (750 min)
FORMULA
((Batters Faced/Minimum Batters Faced) x (K% / 20%)) x K% x the number of seasons the pitcher went over 20% in that category
This is done for each of the 5 categories, with the sum total being that pitcher's overall score.
Anyway, here are the top 50 of all-time:
Here are the active leaders outside of the top 50, some old-time "fireballers" who didn't fare quite as well as we might expect, and some young fireballers who should make a big jump in the near future:
If you're a stat junkie and have some time to kill, here are the detailed reports for each player:
http://cjedmonton.webs.com/Strikeouts.xls
Thanks for looking!
CRITERIA
A pitcher must have at least one season where he struck out at least 20% of the batters he faced (750 minimum)
That's it!
CATEGORIES
Overall Career (10,000 min)
Top 10 seasons (7,500 min)
Top 5 (3,750 min)
Top 3 (2,250 min)
Single Best (750 min)
FORMULA
((Batters Faced/Minimum Batters Faced) x (K% / 20%)) x K% x the number of seasons the pitcher went over 20% in that category
This is done for each of the 5 categories, with the sum total being that pitcher's overall score.
Anyway, here are the top 50 of all-time:
Here are the active leaders outside of the top 50, some old-time "fireballers" who didn't fare quite as well as we might expect, and some young fireballers who should make a big jump in the near future:
If you're a stat junkie and have some time to kill, here are the detailed reports for each player:
http://cjedmonton.webs.com/Strikeouts.xls
Thanks for looking!
