Disclaimer: This is as technical and as nerdy as it gets. Wait I thought this was Razzball not Fangraphs! Well there’s my only joke, so only read on if you’re into the hardcore sabermetrics or sabretooth tigers. Dammit, OK, that’s the last one…
The stat developed by Bill James, the “Gamescore”, was a way to evaluate a pitcher’s performance on any given game and is used more and more frequently to determine who pitched the best game (ala Shelby Miller’s 1-hitter vs. Matt Harvey’s).
Please, blog, may I have some more?