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Sunday, January 01, 2012

Poz discovers FC Lane

By Tangotiger, 05:50 PM

If only more sportwriters would do so

Related articles:
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/comments/baseball_analysis_100_years_ago/

Article that Poz refers to happens to be on my site:
http://www.tangotiger.net/fclane/


#1          (see all posts) 2012/01/01 (Sun) @ 19:31

Thanks for that link. I’d never heard of FC Lane before. It was eerie how close he got with what he had to work with


#2          (see all posts) 2012/01/02 (Mon) @ 11:07

A commenter over there said the system did not include walks. FC Lane’s article on the value of walks is here

http://cyrilmorong.com/LaneBaseonBallĀ­s.htm


#3          (see all posts) 2012/01/02 (Mon) @ 11:08

Sorry, that link is not working. I hope this one will

http://cyrilmorong.com/LaneBaseonBalls.htm


#4          (see all posts) 2012/01/02 (Mon) @ 11:32

Does anyone know if he tried to figure the value(s) of outs?  If he did then he really did have linear weights.  I would guess that the difference between his run values and the ones we have gotten is primarily from sample size, and not from his methods or the very low power, low scoring context of 1916.


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