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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Peak Offensive Age

By , 07:24 PM

Here is a blog entry about peak offensive age.  In it, the author references a study by Jim Albert which looks at the issue using some advanced and complex (to me at least) statistical techniques.  Here is a post I wrote on BTF which also references the above-mentioned blog entry.  My post sums up my thoughts on the matter.  I was wondering what the many bright minds on this blog think of this issue.  As I say below, I think the answer (what is peak offensive age) really illudes us.  And it makes a difference when doing projections.  Age ajdustments are important.

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