what is happening welcome to another episode of the craft my name is nick pollock and we have created

a fun stat that i've been talking about a lot on this podcast um it's called non-competitive rate

we don't have an article out on it yet but as we mess around with it we have a wonderful

leaderboard we're going to talk about it today and who better to talk about this kind of stat than my good friend. I was like, you know what?

It might be, I know it's crazy, but I might bring him on to this show. It's Eno Seris.

Eno, thanks so much for joining me today.

Thanks for having me. I think this is going to be a fun exploration in real time of the kind of stuff that we do where we, you know, we develop a new stat. We hope that it's predictive. We test that it's predictive qualities. But while we do that, we're always looking for outliers. We're always looking for places where, oh, wait, this doesn't

line up with what I expected or this doesn't line up with the other stats. And so we've used

some nice color coding and Excel wizardry, hopefully, to highlight some interesting players that non-competitive rate kind of

picks out and says something interesting about absolutely so non-competitive rate is the

chance of a it's 95% chance of an auto, so it's pretty much just like these are the ones

that are using PLV, nothing's going to happen except the ball here. They just throw it in. It's

just a wasted pitch completely, non-competitive. So reducing those, just innately, right, good thing.

You don't get into worse counts. You don't

have as many walks. You're not, you're actually executing something that might have a good

outcome for you otherwise. How is it related to waste pitches in Savant? So waste is an actual

location. So there are scenarios that you can imagine maybe a wasted one actually gets a swing.

Maybe it's an O2 count, something along those lines.

This is one where it's just completely through PLV, which honestly I imagine there's a massive

correlation between.

But we didn't want to call this waste percentage because that would just be by definition

that location, not by definition that location.

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