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July 7, 2011 BP UnfilteredHalladay CheerLittle-known Roy Halladay facts (with apologies to a list of Chuck Norris facts): - You don't decide your destiny, Roy Halladay chooses it for you. - Roy Halladay makes mission impossible....possible. - Nothing beats a failure but Roy Halladay. - Roy Halladay can divide by zero. - Roy Halladay was a top pitcher with two starts tied behind his back. That's right, we were missing two starts for Roy Halladay, and some starts by some lesser hurlers as well. We'd been investigating the reasons for Halladay being anywhere besides the top of the pitching lists, and finally figured it out. No changes have been made to the formulae, but the various leader boards for pitchers now give him his full due. We apologize for the error and thank you for your patience.
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Thanks, Rob. That answers some questions, but not all. It might be useful for WARP's mass acceptance to have a writeup on why/how pitchers like Derek Lower, Justin Masterson, Jon Niese and Tim Stauffer are besting Halladay in WARP despite all evidence to the contrary.
Yeah, VORP looks 'right' now, but how on earth is Lowe still 0.6 WARP ahead of Halladay despite inferior run prevention numbers in fewer IP? Does the WARP calculation need to be updated separately with the missing starts?