Finding Rockpile topics without recycling stuff is more challenging than you’d think, and while I was thinking of one, I stumbled upon this idea I thought would be funny and pretty appropriate, since the Braves just won the World Series last night Therefore, welcome to my completely biased game-and-series-rating system, folks. I call it Mario’s Fun Counter. Here’s the plan: we’re going to rate every single postseason series from 1-10. The methodology?
- Every game starts out with a default score of 10/20, and we work our way up or down from there.
- Winner-take-all games get a +2 by default
Positive points
- Starter pitches 6+ innings: +2
- Final score difference is 3 runs or less: +2
- 8 or less combined pitchers used: +2
- Game goes under 3 hours: +2
- Walk-off: +3
- Go-ahead run scores in 7th inning or later: +2
- One or more lead loss or change: +2
- Extra-innings game: +2
Negative points
- Starter pitches 2 innings or less: -2
- 12+ combined pitchers used in a game: -2
- 16+ combined pitchers used in a game: -3
- Opener: -2
- Game goes over 4 hours: -2
- 24+ combined strikeouts: -2
- Final score difference is 6+ runs: -2
- No lead loss or change: -2
You might disagree with what I find to be a negative in terms of entertainment value, but that’s a different conversation.