Best lefty off all time? My vote is Koufax!

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Originally Posted by Snowman

Maddux also pitched in the NL, in a pitcher's park, and with one of the greatest defensive center fielders of all time catching balls for him. His BABIP would be expected to be lower than MLB average. If you look at Smoltz and Glavine's numbers during the same time, they also both beat league average MLB BABIP.

Perhaps you should read up on BABIP? I somewhat excuse the level of ignorance on these topics by the non data savvy people in this thread because it's not exactly their job to understand numbers. But if you are serious about being a data analyst, your perpetual ignorance displayed throughout the entirety of this thread with respect to just basic statistics and simple statistical concepts is remarkably embarassing. You should be ashamed of yourself. Go read a book. Or three.

The only person being embarrassed in this thread is you. You’ve progressed into actually having some points beyond claiming to be infallible and have a statistical model you can’t show that proves your claims, but any good point in it is lost by the constant insults of everyone else here and the childish immaturity of your ‘over the top brag - insult’ pattern that never ceases. I’m well aware of what BABIP is and already said the defense behind the pitcher needs to be adjusted for. Regardless of what you claim, great contact pitchers find success at not giving up many runs, often equal to or even better than great K pitchers. Dismissing all non K centric pitchers, which seems to be your implied basis for ignoring Spahn but including his exact contemporary Koufax, is not supported by the data. It does not appear to be random luck, and they tend to have lower BABIP’s over large sample sizes.

But I’m illiterate and homeless, among many other things.