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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The bias of human stringers

By Tangotiger, 09:49 AM

Yet more data from Harry.  At Busch Stadium, 9.6% of batted balls are tagged as hard or soft hit.  At Dodger Stadium, that number is 1.6%.

It’s possible that having that information, however biased, might have some value for one-year of data.  But, once you get into multi-year data, having this information probably is more costly than it is useful.  One more reason to stick to factual information as much as possible.

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