After four weeks of baseball, the 2017 season is way ahead of the 2016 season at the same point (all data is a four week comparison). The 2017 season currently produces 8.84 runs per game compare to 8.48 in 2016. That gap is due to one of the best offensive weeks of the last three season, as the majors produced 10.17 runs per game. The Nationals playing in Coors Field probably helped a lot, as did their 23 run game Sunday. The spreadsheet tracks runs per game per week since 2015, and as you can see from the chart, last week was second only to week 13 of 2016.
The big factor in the year over year increase is the increase in home runs. The majors now produces 2.34 home runs per game versus 2.08 HR per game in 2016. Strikeouts and walks are up slightly, while other this are down. In fact, the overall number of batters earning their way on (H+BB+HBP) is slightly down, 23.978 per game versus 23.992 per games in 2016. All that extra fire power moves those base runners farther.
The outlier weeks usually don’t last, so we’ll see next week if this is a new trend, or just a week of good offensive teams playing in good offensive parks.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2p08x7z
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