The Mets Police

As promised, here is an explainer for those of you who aren’t up to speed on Advanced Unistats. Unimetrics looks beyond the simple win-loss record, but looks at happened I the past so as to predict the future.

Unimetrics also explains Uni-behavior that might otherwise seem insane to a fat guy in the uppers or his basement (I own my own basement, thank you).

The just ended road trip leads us to believe advanced uniform statistics are being used In Queens. There is no other explanation for the Mets wearing black every day until the final game…unless they were applying WABU

WABU or Winning % After Black Uniforms: the win-loss percentage of the team the day after wearing black. Yesterday the Mets applied WABU and got a win.

InWABU or Inclusive WABU includes wearing black the day after wearing black, as was the case for much of the road trip.

HATE (Hybrids As opposed to Tradition Everyday) focuses on the cap. The Mets tend to apply HATE on the road.

The @formerdirtdart statistics service tracks this data for civilians.

As you will see, it is statistically prudent to wear the hybrids at home tonight.

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UPDATED 6:30 PM 15 May 2011

Uni-METS-rics

HATE: .500 w-pct (5-5) {Hm: 1.000 (1-0); Rd: .444 w-pct (4-5)};

WABU .500 w-pct (3-3) -1 DIFF;

inWABU .714 w-pct (10-4) +17 DIFF

Obviously, the Mets generally win he day after they wear black, if they keep wearing it especially.

Yes, the Sunday win in hybrids/grey counts in all three METS-rics

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Don’t forget, you too can slice and dice numbers any way you wish. Just be sure to make a clever acronym and call it “advanced.”

I’ll be over here looking at Wins, Average and RBI if you need me.

(oh and fellas…this is all just fun. It’s a baseball team.)

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Update:  I don’t want to clown around too much given the Wright news, but Terry was wearing a hybrid cap in the press conference.

If you’re out at Citi Field this week, be sure to pick up the new issue of Mets Magazine (or “the Scorecard” or “program”  as vendors and us old guys call it.)

Why?

Well, the Mets are continuing their series where they focus on some of the blogs and I am truly thrilled to be part of it.

Much thanks to the Mets organization for including me, and I’m glad we’ve gotten to know each other a bit.

I originally did a cap design, too — just the basic royal blue hat with a very slight black shadow on the “NY” — but Charlie ended up messing with that.

Continuing a breakdown of The Greatest Article of All Time, that quote above is from Bob Halfacre, the bringer of the black, on caps.

Imagine that, a world without hybrids.  Sure we’d have a cluttered cap with unnecessary dropshadow…and Charlie Samuels would have likely brought the all-black cap into this world eventually….but there was a shot at no hybrids.

I’ve poked around the internet and don’t see anything similar to what was described (I didn’t look that long and maybe one of you photoshoppers could do something with this one, darken the blue and switch the NY and shadow).

Halfacre is so fascinating to me.  He’s somehow at the middle of the blame, but somehow the one who saved the Mets from even greater disaster.

As we’ll discuss tomorrow…what horrors could have happened if they had gone for a total re-design.  Look at the Angels..big difference between this and this.

Shannon,

I was curious how a soccer field would fit into Citi Field. So I used google maps and cut a soccer field from somewhere in NJ and stuck it into a aerial photo of Citi at the same altitude.

What I noticed pretty quickly is that the soccer field fits remarkably well into the ballpark. It’s almost cut right into the stadium. Is it a coincidence?

The straight wall down the right-field line.

The length from the 3rd base line tarp to the deep right center-field fence near the bullpens.

The most convenient fit looks like the “MoZone” cutout that fits a soccer goal perfectly.

You have to wonder if the designers had soccer in mind. I also wonder how the Mets players would feel if they discovered that the reason right center-field is so deep is so Sokratis Papastathopoulos can take a corner-kick?

Keep up the good work

Thanks,

Joe

Ditch the Black