April Starter RATBOPs and BPAs.

I just did Tribe hurlers. Individual game RATBOPs: Jake, 1103, 1363, 1615, 1295 and 1515. Fausto, 1511, 1730, 1487, 1703 and 1398. JM, 1386, 1454, 1140, 1053 and, yesterday (not included in above totals), 1665. Huff, 1510, 1903, 1477, 1300. Talbot, 1296, 1925, 1642 and 1528. Starts around 1500 are akin to a minimal QS; over 1700 is an exceptional start.
PBs and Errors (except the pitcher’s own) are for the most part removed from the equation. But WPs, SBs and baserunning, a la first to third on a single, are all part of the Bases total for both RATBOP and BPA.

Okay, Liriano after today’s game has a cumulative 1671 RATBOP and a .518 BPA. But that’s the last Twinkie I figure out. Huff had a game RATBOP of 1258; season now at 1491, with an .819 BPA.

I think this is a vague insult, but I’m too stupid to figure it out.

But not all inherited runners are created equal (i.e. with the based loaded, nobody out, one would say if a RP can hold them to one run he was damn successful, for example).

RATBOP is a variation on the game score, but tries to be more inclusive by: adding in bases advanced by baserunners, stolen bases, wild pitches, balks; making a distinction between a single and a double, triple or homer; allowing a pickoff, caught stealing or double play ball to erase Bases from the pitcher’s total. RATBOP doesn’t care about strikeouts qua strikeouts; nor does it count unearned runs—baserunners are frozen at the point where an inning would have ended without an error (unless that error was the pitcher’s own—no free rides in RATBOP). But the earned run clock restarts—say a Jhonny error on a ball that would have ended an inning allows three runs to score. Those baserunners aren’t counted at 4,4,4 Bases but rather 3,2,1, and there’s no further advancing for them. But whereas any subsequent run in that inning is an unearned run, RATBOP has more stringent requirements, and if the pitcher gives up single-double-homer after the Jhonny error, there’s another 4,4,4 in the RATBOP bases total.
As I say, I was trying to come up with an OPSian, all-purpose number. Mebbe I have, mebbe I haven’t.

You could do that: Bases per outs, not counting last night: Talbot 0.70, Fausto 0.96, Huff 1.20
Jake 1.40, Masterson 1.58. In the BPA version, Cy Young is close to .500, and inadequate is probably above .900. In your BPO version, the median probably shifts to something like 1.10.
Does it reward the extra PAs? in an inning that results in zero runs, e.g., 3 up/3 down is 0 bases in 12 PAs; the pitcher gets 1000 points of RATBOP (and a constant 111 per inning for getting 3 outs). Putting a single runner on gets you 938, 875 or 813, depending on what base he’s stranded on. Seeing two extra batters: 850, 800 or 750 RATBOP points. Leaving the sacks juiced gets you 750 points. So a triple plus three outs is 813; giving up a single and a walk is 850: yes, you’ve faced more batters and walk away with a higher score, but the runner didn’t travel as far.
Also, one major difference between RATBOP and Game scores is RATBOP rewards IP more than GSc does. Facing fewer batters will make going deeper into a game more likely.
The BPA numbers were a corollary of the principle goal, which was a single number that would stand as a marker for how well a pitcher is doing as the year progresses.