THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

What should I research?

I’ll be penning another article for the 2009 Hardball Times Annual.  I’ve started and stopped research on a couple of things, because I’m not satisfied they are (going to be) strong enough for an annual publication.  Other things on my todo would simply be too long to research, or be too numbers-intensive, or “boring” to be good. 

The WOWY articles I wrote last year I was very happy with, since they used numbers to tell the story, more than it being about the numbers.  Though the numbers were the final selling point that you couldn’t disagree with.

So, what good oomph-type of research would you like to see.  Preferably, it would make use of the PBP data, maybe even pitch-by-pitch (but not location/pitch type).

Give me some ideas…