Hello and welcome to the Approach Angle podcast, a pictureless podcast dedicated to teaching you all things baseball analytics.

I'm your host, Nate Schwartz, joined as always by Director of Analytics, Kyle Bland.

Kyle, how's it going?

Hey there, Nate. Doing great. Happy got one of my first articles of the year out, so feeling like a little bits off my back. How

you doing? Doing great, yeah, a rare Kyle Bland written piece, and naturally this is the one

week I haven't written something because I was traveling, so we're swapping places, but still

getting the podcast out regardless. But today is going to be about that article you wrote.

We're going to be talking about game score.

It's a core part of the game cards we produce.

So if you follow the pitcher list PLV account on social media

or you just kind of have seen our pitch cards around,

there's a start that grades the skills and results for every single outing, you know,

a very straightforward letter grade, A through F. And as you probably know, if you're here,

Kyle is the one who has built, you know, most of the systems that power all of those numbers

and grades in the cards. But one of the interesting ones that is new, you know, as an

iteration upon the,

the first time the cards went out was a new version of game score. So there's this article that

will link in the description going through kind of what exactly it looks like and how it was built.

So we're going to pull back the curtain on both that game score as well as the original and

new game scores, you know, get into what they actually measure and why it's, you know, an important, but, you know, really importantly,

fun combination of eye test numbers and kind of what a game score means in terms of a pitchers

start. But my first question to you, Kyle, is, you know, well, it isn't necessarily an advanced

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