As some of you may remember last year I introduced a pair of sabermetric formulas. While they may have quantified a voluminous amount of data, each focused on only one aspect of the game, that being the hitter. If you recall, both RBI and Home Run Decimal looked specifically the power department, however it is time for me to expand my analysis. The next stat you will see, called Magnum Start Value (MSV) centers around the quality of a start a pitcher has.
Magnum Start Value was created for one purpose, that being to replace the term “Quality Start.