Tom Meagher points out that I didn't list the team totals for stolen bases for 1985 like a I did for the general base running.
Here it is...so the Cardinals were 28 runs above the average team
SB Att Run Value
SLN 410 31.1
CHN 231 19.7
NYA 208 12.4
KCA 176 9.0
PHI 173 7.8
SEA 129 7.1
CIN 229 7.1
MON 246 6.8
LAN 194 5.2
NYN 170 3.4
OAK 175 3.2
BOS 93 2.6
CAL 157 1.6
PIT 170 1.5
CHA 164 1.4
CLE 204 1.4
MIL 103 -0.2
MIN 112 -1.1
TEX 206 -1.9
TOR 221 -1.9
DET 116 -2.0
BAL 112 -3.1
HOU 152 -3.2
SFN 154 -4.0
SDN 99 -5.7
ATL 124 -6.1
Average 174.2 3.5
Also, although the Cardinals were -0.1 in base running advancement for 1985, they were still fourth in the league and so relative to their competition they actually did quite well.
Of course, ideally the Run Expectancy matrix I would use to calculate these stolen base and base running numbers would be customized for each team much like Tom Tango did on his site where he shows the custom linear weights for the basic events. This is the case since the value of a stolen base actually increases when a team includes predominately singles hitters since home run hitters essentially wipe out the incremental value of the advancement on the stolen base.
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