2011 Ballhawking Season End Review

Last year, I wrote an entry recapping how my ballhawking stats broke down by different categories. To be fair, I only snagged 56 baseballs so I don’t know why I broke them down so much but here is the second installment of that entry.

The overall numbers are:

Baseballs(B): 161

Games(G): 46

Balls Per Game(BPG): 3.50

Gameballs (GB): 2 (both foul)

Autographs: approximately 7 (mygameballs’s autograph database is being difficult)

Hit Balls(HB): 49 (The thing to work on next year)

Hit Balls Per Game (HPG): 1.07

Thrown Balls(TB): 96

Thrown Balls Per Game (TPG): 2.09

Easter Eggs(EE): 12 (The fact that I live in New York should explain this)

Easter Eggs Per Game (EPG): .26

Glove Trick Balls(GT): 4 (In three games)

Glove Trick Balls Per Game (GPG): 0.09 (I need to be less paranoid about security)

BP balls: 152

Balls During Game: 5 (I don’t sit by the dugouts much)

Balls After Game: 4 (The majority of these are bullpen balls)

Average Competition Factor (ACF): 98,609

High: 10

Balls Broken down by month:

April-

B: 19

G:8

HB: 5

HF: 2

TB: 14

BPG: 2.38

HPG: .63

FPG: .222222222222222

TPG: 1.75

High: 5

ACF: 80,292

May-

B: 3

G: 2 (This is where my dad’s condition was getting worse so I didn’t attend many games at all)

TB: 3

BPG: 1.5

TPG: 1.5

High: 2

ACF: 48,211

June:

B:16

G: 4

HB: 9

HF: 5

TB: 7

BPG: 4.0

HPG: 2.25

FPG: 1.25

TPG: 1.75

High: 6

ACF: 107,343

July-

B: 83

G: 14

HB: 25

HF: 12

TB: 47

EE: 9

GT: 2

BPG: 5.93

HPG: 1.79

FPG: .86

TPG: 3.36

EPG: .64

GPG: .14

High: 10

ACF: 152, 552

GB: 1

August- (I’d rather forget it but I’ll include it in the interest of fairness)

B: 24

G: 14

HB: 6

HF: 1

TB: 16

GT: 2

BPG: 1.71

HPG: .43

TPG: 1.14

GPG: .14

High: 5

ACF: 45,374

GB: 1

September-

B: 15

G: 4

HB: 4

HF: 1

TB: 8

EE: 3

BPG: 3.75

HPG: 1

FPG: .25

TPG: 2

EPG: .75

High: 6

ACF: 121,314

October-

B: 1

G: 1

TB: 1

TPG: 1

ACF: 50,940

Balls Broken down by Stadium

Yankee Stadium-

B: 10

G: 5

HB: 3

HF: 1

TB: 7

GT: HA!!

BPG: 2

HPG: .6

TPG: 1.4

High: 5

ACF: 83,416

Citi Field-

B: 31

G: 13

HB: 7

HF: 2

TB: 24

EE: Who am I kidding?

BPG: 2.38

HPG: .54

FPG: .15

TPG: 1.85

High: 6

ACF: 68,578

GB: 1

Nationals Park- I’m actually going to not count the one freak game where the gates didn’t open until 6:40 because of the earthquake.

B: 58

G: 11

HB: 17

HF: 8

TB: 37

EE: 4

BPG: 5.27272727

HPG: 1.54545454

FPG: .727272727

TPG: 3.36363636

High: 10

ACF: 148,698.3636

AT&T Park-

B: 2

G: 1

HB: 1

HF: 1

TB: 1

BPG: 2

HPG: 1

FPG: 1

TPG: 1

High: 2

ACF: 83,380

Tropicana Field-

B: 5

G:1

HB: 2

HF: 2

TB: 3

BPG: 5

HPG: 2

FPG: 2

TPG: 3

High: 5

ACF: 119,485

Turner Field-

B: 15

G: 3

HB: 5

HF: 4

TB: 8

GT: 2

BPG: 5

HPG: 1.66666

FPG: 1.33333

TPG: 2.66666

GPG: .666666

High: 7

ACF: 137,269.6666

GB: 1

Sun Life Stadium (Name as of October, 22, 2011)-

B: 15

G: 3

HB: 2

TB: 8

EE: 5

BPG: 5

HPG: .66666

TPG: 2.66666

EPG: 1.66666

High: 5

ACF: 92,086.6666

Oriole Park at Camden Yards-

B: 17

G: 3

HB: 10

HF: 2

TB: 4

EE: 3

BPG: 5.66666

HPG: 3.33333

FPG: .666666

EPG: 1

High: 8

ACF: 124,037.666

Target Field-

B: 2

G: 2

TB: 2

TPG: 2

ACF: 39,974

Miller Park (Like Nationals Park, I won’t count the freak game where I wasn’t present for batting practice because the game was moved up)-

B: 4

G: 1

TB: 2

GT: 2

BPG: 4

TPG: 2

GPG: 2

High: 4

ACF: 167,280

U.S. Cellular-

B: 2

G: 1

HB: 1

TB: 1

BPG: 2

HPG: 1

TPG: 1

High: 2

ACF: 59,400

I think this is all, but if anyone writes a comment suggesting more stats, I will almost certainly include them. Also, there are some stats that didn’t include, a link to my “mygameballs.com account” can be found to the right of this paragraph as the third link in the “Sites related to ballhawking” widget.  Once there, you can browse through my baseballs in a variety of different ways. For example, you can see where I catch most of my baseballs in the seats at a specific ballpark. So at Citi Field, most of my baseballs would probably be in LF because I spend most of my time there in B.P. This is just one of the things you can see there. It is actually scary how much time you can consume just looking a the different stats in the site.

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