Challenge accepted. Once again, Jed Demuesy (@jdemuesy) challenged me to figure out a difficult sports statistic, and I couldn't help but try to figure it out. It was a simple question: Aroldis Chapman had just achieved his 100th save. How fast had he achieved it compared to other pitchers who had hit that milestone?
There was no established list that I could find on the internet of when each pitcher had hit their 100th save milestone. So I used baseball-reference.com and an age calculator. Because Jed was unspecific on what "fastest" meant, I calculated the age of the pitcher at the time of the save, the number of games they had appeared in before achieving the save, and the number of innings they had pitched before achieving the save.
I wanted this spreadsheet to be more interactive, but it doesn't seem like I'm able to make it re-order itself. If you would like to see the spreadsheet and re-order the lists based on the different criteria, here is a direct link to the Google sheet I used. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Qi-7qP3NdY0gvBlFDFZ5TJUjXM88ggmD6biBjy26wo/edit?usp=sharing Or if you know some HTML coding and can help me figure out how to embed a code that would allow re-ordering, please let me know.
As for Jed's question: The answers regarding Aroldis Chapman are:
Age: 26 years 5 months 4 days Rank: 9th of 136
Number of games: 238 Rank: 24th of 136
Number of innings: 232.0 Rank: 9th of 136
