{"id":951,"date":"2013-08-04T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2013-08-04T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T21:24:37","slug":"new-categories-pitches-strikes-and-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/04\/new-categories-pitches-strikes-and-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"New Categories: Pitches, Strikes, and Strike %"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added three new pitching categories to RotoValue: pitches, strikes, and strike percentage.<br \/>\nThese can be used as scoring categories for a league or display-only categories, either for a whole league by administrator configuration, or by owners with RotoValue Analyst, who can add these values to the leagues where they want to see them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/Search?year=2013&amp;league=4&amp;position=SP,RP,P&amp;sort=195\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s the major league leaders in pitches thrown so far this year, with <a title=\"08-04 vs. Blue Jays, 08-10 @ Indians, 08-15 @ Yankees\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/PlayerDetail?player=4443&amp;league=4&amp;year=2013\">C.J. Wilson<\/a>\u00a0topping the list at 2511 pitches in 23 starts.\u00a0<a title=\"08-05 vs. Dodgers, 08-10 vs. Cubs, 08-16 @ Cubs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/PlayerDetail?player=3479&amp;league=4&amp;year=2013\">Adam Wainwright<\/a>\u00a0leads the majors in strikes thrown, with \u00a01630 out of 2403 pitches, while Wilson ranks 7th in strikes at 1585.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re worried about your starter&#8217;s recent workload, you can check their game log to see their pitch loads.\u00a0<a title=\"08-08 vs. Brewers, 08-14 @ Nationals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/PlayerDetail?player=4086&amp;league=4&amp;year=2013\">Tim Lincecum<\/a>\u00a0threw 148 pitches in his no-hitter, but followed that with his shortest (and worst) outing of the year, just 3.67 innings, 78 pitches, and 8 earned runs. In two starts since then, Lincecum has pitched well, while throwing 111 and 115 pitches.<br \/>\nOwners with RotoValue Analyst will have a &#8220;RotoValue &amp; Display&#8221; link under Settings in the menu bar, which lets them pick extra categories to show, or even give categories different weights in RotoValue price calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added three new pitching categories to RotoValue: pitches, strikes, and strike percentage. These can be used as scoring categories for a league or display-only categories, either for a whole league by administrator configuration, or by owners with RotoValue Analyst, who can add these values to the leagues where they want to see them. Here&#8216;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/04\/new-categories-pitches-strikes-and-strike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Categories: Pitches, Strikes, and Strike %<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}