THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

More Clutch

By Tangotiger, 03:12 PM

In this blog entry, Charlie Pavitt looks at hypothesis testing and clutch. I made a couple of comments in that thread, most notably that you can achieve a correlation coefficient of .999 if two things have even the slightest possible relationship.

In the BTF thread linking to the Pavitt entry, Wille Keeler asked:

Aug 28 15:02		Clay Davenport: replacement-level is…. .350 win%, not .150 win%?
Aug 28 11:41		Are the TB Rays a “story”
Aug 28 10:11		Fixing VORP
Aug 28 09:42		How can you tell if a change in rules is a good change?
Aug 28 00:58		What should I research?
Aug 27 21:29		With or Without You
Aug 27 15:58		2007 Fans’ Scouting Report - Results
Aug 27 12:40		The 2008 Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans
Aug 27 12:12		Search Inside The Book
Aug 26 17:22		That will be 300,000,000$ please… paid in 3 installments
Aug 26 13:41		Soap for the mouth
Aug 26 13:30		Mailbags on Parade
Aug 26 12:12		Assumed risk in attending a game
Aug 26 10:56		Bridging the Statistical Gap
Aug 26 06:50		Five of the ten best teams play in the AL east?
Aug 26 06:19		Long and short atbats
Aug 25 10:20		Situational Hitting and Adam Dunn
Aug 25 07:11		The Perfect DH rule
Aug 24 12:20		Did you hear the one about the lawyer, the scholarly publication, and the analyst?
Aug 23 15:43		Translating Relievers into W/L records
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