From WHIP to WAR, The Numbers Driving UNC’s Omaha Push

[BenSherman]

From WHIP to WAR, The Numbers Driving UNC’s Omaha Push

Here’s a by-the-numbers look at the key stats that have enabled UNC's College World Series berth.

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[uncbornbred]

love the WAR stat ... very telling for this team

GO HEELS

 

[UNC23NDME]

love the WAR stat ... very telling for this team

GO HEELS

Not surprising either. Those 2 are the engine to the offense and have been all year.

 

[TennesseeTarHeel1999]

That WHIP is incredible especially when the game 1 blunder gets taken into consideration. Just because I’m curious, I wonder how much lower it’d be without the 6th inning on Friday.

 

[GraceNugent]

That WHIP is incredible especially when the game 1 blunder gets taken into consideration. Just because I’m curious, I wonder how much lower it’d be without the 6th inning on Friday.

It would be 0.692 without Friday's 6th

 

[Nuggetpalooza]

This is great stuff! Here's what I've always wanted to see when tournament time rolls around, because it seems like every player on every team is hitting .350 with a .980 OPS.

Hitting and pitching vs the top 50 teams (however that ranking is arrived at), or the NCAA field, or SOMETHING to eliminate the stats against the Gardner-Webbs and LeMoynes.

 

[TennesseeTarHeel1999]

It would be 0.692 without Friday's 6th

Unreal. What a run for the pitching

 

[FourHeels]

It would be 0.692 without Friday's 6th

That's otherworldly!

Outstanding breakdown of all of these stats Grace!! This baseball number guys eats this stuff up!!

 

[ChapelHillGlove]

It would be 0.692 without Friday's 6th

That 0.692 number from the WHIP, it would need 366 baserunners in one inning, so maybe a joke? Just curious how you got there. Thanks either way!

 

[NoHighHeels]

Great article. I'm obsessed with WHIP. It's the first stat I look at with a pitcher or staff. It worried me going into regionals and supers that our WHIP had been a little high this season. But we are peaking at the right time.

 

[GraceNugent]

That 0.692 number from the WHIP, it would need 366 baserunners in one inning, so maybe a joke? Just curious how you got there. Thanks either way!

It’s walks plus hits per innings pitched meaning that per inning UNC has less than one (.692) walks or hits. It’s just a good way to quantify base runners allowed by the pitching staff.

 

[BennettWalkOn13]

It’s walks plus hits per innings pitched meaning that per inning UNC has less than one (.692) walks or hits. It’s just a good way to quantify base runners allowed by the pitching staff.

Haha yes aware of WHIP, it’s significant. And yes ok that’s got to be the postseason-only number. Just doing the math, a .692 team WHIP over a full season would be essentially impossible. Still amazing. Thanks!

 

[BennettWalkOn13]

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[FourHeels]

Haha yes aware of WHIP, it’s significant. And yes ok that’s got to be the postseason-only number. Just doing the math, a .692 team WHIP over a full season would be essentially impossible. Still amazing. Thanks!

Her earlier post explains the number . The 0.692 WHIP is just for our Super Regional games minus the 6th inning of Game 1. The OP article has our season WHIP (1.36) as well as for the full Super including the 6th inning of Game 1 (0.852).

 

[socalheel]

Haha yes aware of WHIP, it’s significant. And yes ok that’s got to be the postseason-only number. Just doing the math, a .692 team WHIP over a full season would be essentially impossible. Still amazing. Thanks!

It was mentioned that the team WHIP throughout the season was around 1.3. The .692 is for the last 3 games with Fridays 6th inning removed. If you add that inning it jumped to .85