Baseball, Pythagorean Win Expectation

Strangely, not a Pythonym (i.e., something attributed to Pythagoras that he had nothing to do with), but an actual baseball statistic. And it sure sounds like something the gematria number crunchers should know about. Not a mention.


It should be mentioned for the same reason that Pythonyms have been used - Pythagoras means geometry (to them) - geometry means gematria (only because of name similarity) - and in this case actual numbers based on the Pythagorean theorem - and...baseball! It's rigged!


I stumbled on this by accident reviewing my team's less than stellar performance this year. It works like this:


Runs scored squared/(Runs scored squared + runs allowed squared) = expected winning percentage.


It sounded like nonsense to me. Duh, you score more runs than you allow, you win more often. It does work pretty well in practice because the baseball season is so dang long. Over a 162 game schedule it has been found to hold true within 2-3 games.


Its gematria application...
In baseball even the worst teams can muster 65 wins or about 40%. The best don't win much more than 100 or 60%. Most of the results will be a decimal beginning with 0.4 or 0.5. The win expectation numbers are in the same range.


We all know that every mind numbingly stupid number that shows up MEANS something to these guys. Ben Roethlisberger's release time on the fourth of five interceptions last weekend. Surely that was rigged.* That means something. Somebody in the stands wearing a team jersey number. Means something. Time on the clock when Stephen Curry scored his 33rd point means something. But what to do with a number like 0.512?


Change it into another number. That's 215, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. Maybe the calculation was 0.5119. Hey, 511 =115. Freemasons. The current record for globetrotting is to drop a GPS decimal coordinate of 0.95 completely, so why not. Gotta get the masons in there somehow. Surely some prime numbers will show up. Freemasons love prime numbers. The possibilities boggle the mind of coconuts!


I don't mind training them to use another useless number. This is documentation of lack of sincerity about what Pythagoras means to gematria. He certainly did not invent baseball, being the huge shuffleboard and curling fan he was. He didn't have anything to do with Gematria, being more into Sudoku. And in total there is no historical precedent, no authoritarian person or group that determined what non-gematria numbers are allowed to carry over and mix with numbers derived strictly from words. The users are picking and choosing and making it up as they go along.


*An example, I haven't seen it, but it sounds like them. Don't nitpick.