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.