{"id":1194,"date":"2011-04-26T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T19:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2011-04-29T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:44:21","slug":"how-are-gofo-ratios-calculated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"How are GO\/FO ratios calculated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reviewing the Potomac Nationals 4\/25 game, I was going to make a comment about how <strong>Paul Demny<\/strong> was really keeping the ball down after glancing at his ground ball\/fly out ratio (listed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?sid=milb&amp;t=g_box&amp;gid=2011_04_25_potafa_myrafa_1\">box score<\/a> as 12\/4).<\/p>\n<p>However, after reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.minorleaguebaseball.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?sid=milb&amp;t=g_log&amp;gid=2011_04_25_potafa_myrafa_1\">game recap<\/a>, I cannot figure out how they arrived at this 12\/4 ratio.\u00a0 Follow along with the recap and see if you agree or disagree with what I see (we&#8217;re analyzing the Myrtle Beach innings against our starter Demny):<\/p>\n<p>Inning 1: A line out to center, and two grounders.\u00a0 1 Flyball outs(FO), 2 groundball outs (GO)<\/p>\n<p>Inning 2: Walk, Grounder, flyball to right, walk, and another grounder.\u00a0 1 FO, 2 GOs.<\/p>\n<p>Inning 3: ground-out, fly out, single and ground out.\u00a0 1 FO, 2GOs<\/p>\n<p>Inning 4: Ground out, strikeout, double (in the air) to left field, then fly out to right.\u00a0 1 FO, 1 GO.<\/p>\n<p>Inning 5: RBE, then ground-out, then a flyball-inducing double play.\u00a0 1 GO, 1 FO<\/p>\n<p>Inning 6: HBP, then a CS, walk, single, fly out to left then a ground out to short.\u00a0 1GO, 1FO<\/p>\n<p>Inning 7: Grounder to short, grounder to short, single, single then strike out.\u00a0 2 GO.<\/p>\n<p>Count them up:\u00a0 I get 11 ground outs, 6 fly ball outs for 17 of his 21 outs.\u00a0 The other 4 outs: 2 strike outs, a CS and a double-play.\u00a0 Of the 5 hits he gave up, at least two of them were &#8220;fly ball&#8221; hits.\u00a0\u00a0 The other three (plus the reached-by-error) were grounders, giving Demny 15 balls on the ground, 8 balls in the air for those &#8220;in-play&#8221; balls during his tenure.\u00a0 Still a pretty good ratio, but not 12\/4 as reported in the box.<\/p>\n<p>What am I missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reviewing the Potomac Nationals 4\/25 game, I was going to make a comment about how Paul Demny was really keeping the ball down after glancing at his ground ball\/fly out ratio (listed in the box score as 12\/4). However, after reading the game recap, I cannot figure out how they arrived at this 12\/4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}