{"id":23556,"date":"2013-03-28T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=23556"},"modified":"2013-04-02T20:28:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:28:36","slug":"we-declare-peace-on-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/we-declare-peace-on-war\/","title":{"rendered":"We Declare Peace on War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Major League Baseball season begins Sunday night. In preparation for another exciting campaign, the founders at 60ft6in.com has introduced a new pitching metric called&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/60ft6in.com\/peace\/peace-top-1000\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pitcher Evaluation ACE (PEACE)<\/a>. This new tool compares each pitching season to the<em>&#160;average historical season<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"PEACE logo\" src=\"http:\/\/60ft6in.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PEACE-logo4-206x275.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The structure of PEACE is similar to&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/60ft6in.com\/factor12\/\" target=\"_blank\">Factor12<\/a>. However, adjustments have been made to account for rules changes and playing field alterations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Innings Pitched (IP) has been adjusted for the distance between the pitcher&#8217;s mound\/box and home plate (1876-1892).<\/li>\n<li>Home Runs Allowed (HRA) has been adjusted for the Dead Ball Era (1876-1919).<\/li>\n<li>Bases On Balls (BB) has been adjusted for the 19th century rules on the number of called balls (1876-1888).<\/li>\n<li>Strikeouts (SO) has been adjusted for the seasons in which overhand pitching was permitted at a distance of 50 feet (1884-1892).<\/li>\n<li>Total Bases Allowed (TB) has been estimated for 1876-1944 (data unavailable).<\/li>\n<li>Earned Runs (ER) has been adjusted for 1876-1968 to account for the varying mound heights, or lack thereof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These adjustments make is possible to compare pitchers across the different eras of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>The 1884 Union Association has not been included. The league is not considered to be a major league by many historians, including the creators of PEACE.<\/p>\n<p>PEACE will vary yearly as the historical average season changes.<\/p>\n<p>PEACE will also be subject to change based on future advancements and understanding of historical data.<\/p>\n<p>Please let them know your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 Major League Baseball season begins Sunday night. In preparation for another exciting campaign, the founders at 60ft6in.com has introduced a new pitching metric called&#160;Pitcher Evaluation ACE (PEACE). This new tool compares each pitching season to the&#160;average historical season. The structure of PEACE is similar to&#160;Factor12. However, adjustments have been made to account for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,9,4235,5],"tags":[11658,18076,3880,10328,1053,514,16118,3262,2497,18201,18075,19762,1218,2743,12092,191,19764,5112,19763,432,13154,19761,13327],"class_list":["post-23556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-general","category-top-stories","category-statistical-analysis","tag-19th-century","tag-60ft6in-com","tag-ace","tag-alterations","tag-balls","tag-baseball-season","tag-creators","tag-earned-runs","tag-eras","tag-f12","tag-factor12-rating","tag-founders","tag-historians","tag-hra","tag-josh-robbins","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-metric","tag-peace","tag-pitcher-evaluation-ace","tag-pitchers","tag-rules-changes","tag-season-changes","tag-tb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}