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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Brewers sabermetrician

By Tangotiger, 10:54 AM

Interview with Dave Lawson two years ago.  Based on comments on Patriot’s blog, the stat that Lawson refers to it Total Average (for the hitter and the pitcher).


#1    rluzinski      (see all posts) 2008/02/27 (Wed) @ 11:46

As a Brewer fan, I don’t mind that he assumed he “invented” total average.  It’s an honest mistake.  It’s the fact that he still uses it that bugs me.  Darn pride.


#2    Tangotiger      (see all posts) 2008/02/27 (Wed) @ 12:10

You are right, that there is no justification for using Total Average (or Runs Created or OPS for that matter) as part of your decision-making process, if you have a computer.

Now, if you are “using” it to simply get a quick read, that’s ok.


#3    MGL      (see all posts) 2008/02/27 (Wed) @ 23:45

Interesting interview.  The guy “writes” well.  I have not seen anything particular to suggest that the Brewers are a “sabermetric” organization, but, one, you never know, and two, it’s not like I devote a certain amount of time in my schedule to see if I can figure out which teams are sabermetrically inclined, and to what degree…


#4    rluzinski      (see all posts) 2008/02/28 (Thu) @ 15:24

I think the Brewers are somewhere in between.  You have to remember, Doug Melvin is the GM who was willing to give Russell Branyan a job… twice. smile As the interview suggests, Melvin seems to be willing to listen to advice from all sides when he’s making a decision.


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