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Friday, September 21, 2007

LEV v LI

By Tangotiger, 11:09 AM

Joe Sheehan’s turn to talk about Ned Yost, and echoes what has already been said.  (If you want to talk about Ned Yost, go to that thread.) But, that’s not why I’m here.  He talks about the “Leverage score” (LEV), and refers to this for Brewers. The correct Leverage Index (LI) are here. LEV is not LI, and no one should confuse the two, nor think that each has some advantage over the other.  They don’t.  LEV should not be used to discuss leverage of situations as Joe Sheehan is doing.  Ever. This was discussed in…

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