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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Game theory questions to a competitive player
Jeff Kobernus, a former minor league player (the 2007 stat line on that page is for his son) who is a reader of this blog has shown interest in getting peppered by questions by those of us who never made it that far. I’ve got several questions on how batters approach each PA (the game within a game), but I’m also reminded of the exchange Lenny Dykstra had with Billy Beane in Moneyball, which basically resulted in one being done in by paralysis by analysis. You can guess which one did the analysis. So, let me open up the floor to you guys, and I’ll come up with my questions in a bit.