Finally! A reliable source that offers MLB home plate umpire performance data! Now, when you’re watching a ballgame, seething in frustation over Tim Tschida’s postage-stamp-sized, floating strikezone, you can refer to BaseballNewsHound.com’s MLB Homeplate Umpire Data (2000-2011) Spreadsheet File and remind your friends that Tschida is the game’s worst umpire! Download to your heart’s content, and remember, Ryan S. Kelley and BaseballNewsHound.com are awesome!
Click the below links to view an Excel Workbook containing Major League Baseball Home Plate Umpire Data for the last twelve seasons (2000-2012).
The first link will redirect you to a Google Docs Workbook with a functioning AutoFilter. The second link will download an .xlxs file with a non-working autofilter (Excel 2008 for Mac Issue). If you would like an editable file, please email RSKelley@BaseballNewsHound.com
MLB Home Plate Umpire Performance Data (2000-2012) Google Docs Spreadsheet
MLB Homeplate Umpire Data (2000-2011) Spreadsheet File (111.0 KiB)
The dataset contains variables for K/BB, ERA, Hits + BB per Inning, Home Team Winning Percentage and more. The last four columns of the 2011 Worksheet are “RANK” variables– as in performance ranking. The last column assigns each umpire an overall score based on their observed performance. Umpire’s with scores closer to 1 are better while those closer to 0 are worse.
The Spreadsheet was constructed by BaseballNewsHound.com. All calculations performed in this Excel file were added by Ryan S. Kelley of BaseballNewsHound.com. The source of the raw data included in this file was TheLogicalApproach.com’s logs.
This file and the data contained in this workbook is protected by Copyright.
Thank you to TheLogicalApproach.com for the raw data tables.
(C) Copyright 2012 Ryan S. Kelley and BaseballNewsHound.com
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