Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2022 October 1

= October 1 =

What's the average number of scoring events per MLB game?
Average number of times run(s) happen. So each home run is 1 event, an RBI single is 1 event whether there's multiple runs or not, a balk with the bases loaded is 1 event and so on. I wonder how this number compares to the 4.3 runs per game per team this year. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 14:52, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That could take some heavy calculating. Basically you'd have to look at the play-by-play of each game and count the number of run-scoring events. Retrosheet has play-by-play info, at least for recent years. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:10, 1 October 2022 (UTC)


 * For example, the final game of the 1927 World Series. Counting the number of occurrences of "scored" might give you the answer for that particular game. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:53, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
 * So the Pirates' 3 runs were 1 per RBI guy, that has to be 3 events right? The Yankees' 4 runs were 1 in the 1st, 1 in the 9th and 2 in the bottom of the 5th inning so we have to look at that. And it turns out both runs were Babe Ruth homering with 1 guy on base so 6 times in this 7 run game. With the amount of sabermetrics and rules changing for the easily bored these days I bet someone has made an average. If they really want shorter games the biggest savings would be eliminate intrusive advertisements. This 1927 World Series winner had 80 batters faced (more than the 74.96 this year or the 78.32 of 2000 (the post-1936 record)) yet was finished in only 2.25 hours. But of course they won't. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 13:27, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
 * There was no TV in those days. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:08, 2 October 2022 (UTC)