MLB Leaguewide Stats
Project #4097 on iSENSEProject.org
Description
This data comes from Baseball Reference, summarizing stats from Major League Baseball across the league for the period from 1985 to 2022. (The pandemic-shortened 2020 season is missing from this table.)
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/misc.shtml
I uploaded this data to look at changes in game duration over time. The saved visualizations here show a steady increase in the duration of games (in hours) per nine innings. There's been a corresponding increase in the number of pitchers used per game.
The 2023 season is likely to produce a major decrease in the length of games, due to the implementation of a pitch clock.
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Our Data
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| Year | Teams | Games | Time per Game (Hrs) | Time per Nine Innings (Hrs) | Innings | Inning Pct | Runs per Game | PAs per Game | Batters per Game | Pitchers per Game | Pinch Hitters per Game | Pinch Runners per Game | Attendance | Attend/G | League Payroll | Payroll per Team |