Author: Rob Mackowiak

The faster and more aggressively pitchers throw, the more wear and tear they place on their internal structures. There is a commonly held belief that 100 pitches is the point where a pitcher should be pulled because of the increased risk for injury moving forward. While this seemed to be the case in 2011, as…

This week I was asked by Colin McAuslan and the Queen’s University Gaels to deliver an interactive seminar to S&C interns with the goal of providing an example of some tasks you would see working as an Analyst for a professional sports team. In my career as a sport scientist I frequently use Google Sheets…

Problem: The Ontario University Athletic (OUA) has suspended all sanctioned sports games and practices until at least January 24th, 2022. This creates an issue when the season starts again and playoff teams have played a different number of games against different opponents. How can we seed them effectively? Solution: We can use the Rating Percentage…

Problem: There is no way to adjust a batter’s SO% and BB% based on the quality of pitchers they have faced throughout the season. Solution: The Quality of Competition (QoC) metric is a weighted-average ratio of the average league caliber pitcher compared to the caliber of pitchers a specific batter faced in a given season.…