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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Do Baseball Insiders Really Understand Baseball (and Statistics)?

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I did not really know how to title this entry, but…

Here is an article that, in my opinion, is a good example of how baseball “insiders” are woefully inadequate in understanding the confluence of baseball and statistics, such that it can and will lead to bad deicision-making.

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Dec 03 21:29
Sabermetric Moves of the 2009 Pre-Season

Dec 03 21:15
What would happen if the shootout period was 10 minutes, not 5?

Dec 03 20:51
Marcel 2009 is here

Dec 03 18:40
Avery being Avery

Dec 03 17:41
How to calculate the area of a baseball field

Dec 03 16:57
NYC’s 3 1/2 year mandatory jail time sentence for carrying a loaded weapon

Dec 03 14:50
The Return of the Baseball Abstract? No, the next best thing…

Dec 03 14:48
Estimating BABIP

Dec 03 10:42
What was Pedro worth?

Dec 03 10:20
Complete Run Expectancy, Retrosheet Years

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December 02, 2007
Do Baseball Insiders Really Understand Baseball (and Statistics)?

		Inside a trade (and a FIP sighting)
		Web Admin: Adding Categories
		Some of the things you wanted to know about Regression Toward The Mean, and didn’t know how to ask
		Curveball v Fastball
		Why numbers are only one lens of your glasses
		Adrian Beltre
		Why don’t the “snooty sneetches with stars upon thars” listen to Phil Birnbaum?
		Rating the pitching coaches (sorta, maybe)
		Three straights great games
		File listing dump
		The short and tall of it
		NBA Win Shares and WOWY
		Why aren’t catchers pitching coaches?
		Forbes’ Team Valuations
		(Limited) Career Leverage Index
		The Baseball Vatican?
		If you hate Joe Morgan, you’ll love this…
		The Lineup Spectrum
		Richie Sexson
		Hardball Times OF Arms
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