Table 3. Quartile Analysis of Pitch Selection Rates.
Fastball | Off-Speed | Breaking Ball | |||||||
Pre-UR | Post-UR | P-value | Pre-UR | Post-UR | P-value | Pre-UR | Post-UR | P-value | |
Top Decile | 69.33% | 72.27% | 0.02 | 24.14% | 36.37% | 0.40 | 38.42% | 37.41% | 0.98 |
Top Quartile | 64.42% | 62.69% | 0.01 | 15.55% | 19.82% | 0.12 | 30.37% | 28.86% | 0.64 |
Bottom Quartile | 51.23% | 45.74% | 0.85 | 4.68% | 4.00% | 0.19 | 13.67% | 14.41% | 0.14 |
Bottom Decile | 44.39% | 38.04% | 0.93 | -* | -* | 0.05 | 7.81% | 6.67% | 0.44 |
*Included pitchers with less than 1% usage rate, eliminated due to skewed data |