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Monday, January 09, 2012
Sharp and soft contacted balls
Derek shows that while the rate of “sharpies” and “softies” is very consistent year-to-year, it’s virtually meaningless in it’s relationship to hits and outs.
This is a perfect example of why it’s important to remember why we do year-to-year correlations: we don’t care about how much something is real, but rather how much that thing is related to the thing we care about. So, while it’s very interesting to learn that sharpies and softies are consistent (or at least consistently recorded), it’s ultimately useless.
Side note to Derek: there’s no reason to remove SF and E from the denominator.