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Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Another Stat of the Week

By , 07:09 PM

Here is the link:

http://actasports.com/sows.php

They found that:

When no throw was made, stolen base percentage was 75%

When at least one throw was made, 64%

Please tell me that they controlled for the pool of base runners and used some kind of “delta method!” The difference seems awfully high after controlling for the runners.

If not, seriously, I am going to give up on them, as much as I like Dewan. They can’t possibly be that ignorant, can they?

Tango, can you ask them?

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