BIOSOFT SPORTS :: MLB'S PERFECT GAME

Baseball's Perfect Games

The baseball data below were obtained from the Baseball Almanac. I then computed the BIORhythm of each of the players for the date of their "Perfect Game". Read below for my startling discoveries. - Harvey Makishima

"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time." - Perfect Game Club Member & Hall of Famer Catfish Hunter (commenting on why he was not able to pitch another perfect game)

Words alone cannot describe pitching's top "club" and most desired goal - the masterpiece of any career, the pinnacle of the pitching aspect and one of the most difficult feats to achieve in the entire game of baseball is the perfect game.

What is a perfect game in baseball? Author Paul Dickson in The New Baseball Dictionary (1999) describes it best with, "A no-hitter in which no opposing player reaches first base, either by a base hit, base on balls, hit batter, or fielding error; i.e., the pitcher or pitchers retire all 27 opposing batters in order." Note: A bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season.

There are a total of 17 players with a perfect game in this study. The following is an analysis of their BIORhythms on the date of their perfect game.

The two most significant discoveries were that there were 3 times the number of pitchers with an emotional positive than emotional negatives on the date of their perfect game (12 vs 4). The other extremely significant finding was that there were 10 pitchers that had a double positive (two or more positives in their three BIORhythmic cycles) and only one with double negatives (two or more negatives). See the symbols in this chart as they relate to the table below:

Number of occurrences per symbol (Emotional Cycle). Above the horizontal line are the + and # symbols and together they total 12. The negative symbols - and * which are below the line total only 4.

+	#	-	*
3	9	4	0

POSITIVES		NEGATIVES
Emotional +,#	12	Emotional -,*	4
Physical +,#	5	Physical -,*	7
Intellectual +,#	7	Intellectual -,*	6

DOUBLE POSITIVES:		DOUBLE NEGATIVES:
Double +, # (positives) = 10	=	Double -, * (minuses) = 1

SUMMARY

The players with an emotional positive (+,#) represented 70.1% of the players. The players with an emotional negative (-,*) represented only 23.5% of the players. This study is consistent with my other studies involving football, golf and basketball where a player with an emotional positive has between 2 to 4 1/2 times the potential to perform well when compared with an emotional minus. Perhaps more significant is that 10 of the 17 pitchers had a double positive versus only 1 of 17 with a double negative. Can you see how FantasyBIO will help you identify the hottest players - long before the date of the game? Sign up Now!

Perfect Games
Name	Date of Event	Birth Date	BIORhythm
Cy Young	05-05-1904	03-29-1867	+ + -
Addie Joss	10-02-1908	04-12-1880	+ # +
Charlie Robertson	04-30-1922	01-31-1896	L # +
Don Larsen	10-08-1956	08-07-1929	C # -
Catfish Hunter	05-08-1968	04-08-1946	- + #
Len Barker	05-15-1981	07-07-1955	- # +
Mike Witt	09-30-1984	07-20-1960	H - *
Kenny Rogers	07-28-1994	11-10-1964	* - *
David Wells	05-17-1998	05-20-1963	- # +
David Cone	07-18-1999	01-02-1963	H - #
Lee Richmond	06-12-1880	05-05-1857	* # -
John Ward	06-17-1880	03-03-1860	+ - -
Jim Bunning	06-21-1964	10-23-1931	- + C
Sandy Koufax	09-09-1965	12-30-1935	- # -
Tom Browning	09-16-1988	04-28-1960	* # +
Dennis Martinez	07-28-1991	04-08-1960	+ # #
Randy Johnson	05-18-2004	09-10-1963	+ L +