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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Base Out Ratios: The Mother of all Reinventions

By Tangotiger, 03:26 PM

Let this be the last time someone invents this.

The amazing thing about this to me is that, as far as I can tell, all of these were presented as new ideas and new statistics. There were no disclaimers… Quite the opposite: Some of the metrics were introduced breathlessly by their respective authors as a completely new way to look at the game… As a final plea, certainly everyone can agree that the world has seen enough introductions of differently named, historically oblivious bases/something ratios, can’t we? Thirty years of reinventing the wheel should be sufficient.

And, there’s a little table I contributed in there.  Nothing big.

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