New KUG Leaderboard

It's been almost 2 months since the last KUG grit rankings update. For this round, I've revised the formula to be a rate stat. These numbers can't direcltly be compared to the last set, but they're on the same scale. All counting stats are now a function of plate appearances, so bench players are judged on the same scale as starters.

I don't have the time or energy to write out the whole formula here- it's long and messy with some random multiplication to get the numbers to be on a scale similar to where they were last time. If anyone wants me to run somebody specific's numbers, I'd be glad to.

I'll just fill everyone in on what's changed for now. In addition to making the stat a rate instead of a cumulative number:

• I've added stolen bases to the non-gritty section of the formula to weed out guys who have the talent to steal bases, like Joey Gathright
  
• I took out sacrifice flies as a gritty thing to do, because guys like Prince Fielder hit a lot of them
• I added a bonus for being 6 feet or shorter, the final number was multiplied by 1.05 for those players
• I added a bonus for being older than 30, I multiplied by 1.05 for that too.
  
• Gone is the ability to score in the negatives, like Braun did last time. Now the best you can do is 0, like Russell Branyan, who hasn't had a sacrifice, HBP, or caught stealing this year, so the top of his Raw Grit formula was a 0. Even though he's 30+, 1.05*0 is still 0. 

Greater Rankings of Individual Tenacity

Rickie Weeks, due to being crappy and hitting a lot of ground balls, moves up to second behind the Grit-man. Cameron slides down due to improved production and a not-gritty .306 ground ball rate. 

I'm curious to see how this new formula works out, I'll maybe run some other guys tomorrow if I have time. For now, take comfort in knowing that the Cubs have no one that can out-grit Jason Kendall.

EDIT: The Formula for Grit

I went through the whole spreadsheet to figure out the formula. It looks ridiculous, but it makes sense if you go through it:

1000(SH/PA + HBP/PA + CS/PA)  /  100(HR/PA + IBB/PA + GIDP/PA + SO/PA +  SB/PA)  *  1- (H/XBH)   *  (GB rate)  *  1.05 if age=30+  *  1.05 if height=<72"   *  (3)

No, the multipliers are not errors. Since there are a lot fewer events in the first part of the ratio, and we obviously want the number to be positive and large enough to understand (not the leader at .95, second at .82, etc.), I made the top number bigger.

The other odd-looking part is the last thing, I just multiplied every number by 3. That makes the numbers look kinda like they did last time, when the top GRIT producers were in the mid-30's in KUG, this time Kendall had 12 so I just multiplied everyone by 3.