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NOBLETIGER Tracker

One of my favorite unoffical stats in Major League Baseball is the NOBLETIGER. It's a rare occurrence wherein an offense loads the bases with no outs, but fails to earn a single run before a third out is recorded. Hence the name, NOBLETIGER; No Outs, Bases Loaded, Ending in Team Incapable of Getting Easy Runs.

What I love about the NOBLETIGER is that it requires mistakes from both teams. A defense wants to keep runners out of scoring position, and an offense wants runs. The NOBLETIGER describes the event where both teams fail.

The prerequisite for a NOBLETIGER is an BLNO scenario--Bases Loaded, No Outs. It is the single most leveraged position in which a defense can find themselves. Roughly 88% of the time, the offense scores at least a run, and usually many more.

With NOBLETIGER being an unofficial statistic, I failed to find a source that tracks it. I built this solution myself using Python and historical data shared by Statcast.

Example: View on GitHub