Independent Baseball Analysis Tue, September 8, 2026
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Every dimension of the data, one place. Refreshes every morning with the previous night’s games.

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The Data

TeamsNew Team Profiles All 30 teams, by the numbers — offense, rotation, bullpen, defense, and the kinds of opponents each one beats or loses to. Games Game Reports Every 2026 game with its home-plate umpire’s accuracy and missed-call count — opens on last night’s slate. Umpires Umpire Profiles Every home-plate umpire: accuracy, zone style, and wrong-call impact, graded nightly. Robo-zone ABS Challenges Who challenges, who wins, and which catchers still steal strikes — plus the live walk-rate tracker. Pitching Pitcher Profiles Pressure grades, the Pitch Tunneling Atlas, and command consistency for every 2026 arm. Hitting Hitter Directory Every bat-tracked hitter’s two-strike Swing Gear, plus the live Coaching Gap tracker.

Tools & Live Trackers

Robo-zone Challenge Optimizer Should you burn one? Set the inning, count, score, and challenges left; it tells you how sure you need to be. The Count Count Calculator Outcome probabilities for any ball-strike count — 2026 so far, 2025 full season, and umpire accuracy by count. Location Zone Explorer Every called pitch mapped against the rulebook zone — filter by game, team, or umpire. Live tracker The Form Table Every team’s last 15 games split into real process change and luck — with next-30 forecasts for teams in a slump window. Live tracker The Walk Spike Weekly league walk rate against the 2018–2025 baseline — is the ABS-era spike fading? Live tracker Coaching Gap Pulse The live 2026 spread of the low-chase wOBA edge against the four-season baseline.
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IOAI UMPIRE In-Out Asymmetry. How much more generous on the outside corner than the inside, vs league baseline. Stu Scheurwater +12pp; Alex MacKay −7pp. EAR UMPIRE Edge Aggression Rate. How often an umpire calls the edge band as a strike. Positive = gives the edge. Tunneling Divergence PITCHER How separated a pitcher's pitch types are at the plate after looking the same at the hitter's decision point. Higher = better deception. Coaching Gap HITTER The wOBA edge a hitter extracts specifically on predictable pitches. Low-chase hitters: +0.04 wOBA edge. Chase Tertile HITTER Hitter discipline classification (low / mid / high) based on how often they swing at pitches outside the zone. Challenge Value ABS The wOBA-shift saved when an ABS challenge gets overturned, weighted by the count. A 3-2 overturn is worth ~5× a 1-0 overturn.