>Apparently I do have too much time on my hands, but I discovered something very odd.
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>I was looking at the MLB pitching stats on MLB.com. I copied the first page of the pitcher stats to XL and found this oddity. If the pitcher has pitched an incomplete number of innings (i.e. - 30.1 innings), the ERA stats aren't calculated correctly.
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>ERA is Earned Runs * 9 / Innings Pitched, but in only one case on the first page of pitchers stats does that actually work for incomplete innings pitched (Jimenez).
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>Anybody know why? See attached jpeg of the sheet.

Al is surely correct. Those are thirds of innings, not tenths. Just saving a little space, probably.

I see Halladay stumbled his way to a three hit shutout yesterday ;-)

Tim Lincecum wound up with a no decision in an almost identical performance his last time out. Bruce Bochy yanked him with one out in the ninth (to tremendous booing), a man on first, and a 4-1 lead. The closer gave it away. It's early but already it looks like these two guys are going to be dueling for the Cy Young.

UPDATE: Also, you have highlighted numbers in the "Real ERA" column. The numbers in the "MLB ERA" column appear to be correct, based on spot checking. I have no idea what Real ERA is.