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Thursday, March 08, 2007

The Four Horsemen

By Tangotiger, 12:17 PM

Studes follows the Voros approach in describing some players.  It is in fact Voros’ approach that allowed me to create aging charts.  (See Legend at the bottom)

As you can see, each rate describes something specific.

Now, there’s no reason that you must look at things this way.  It assumes a certain independence that perhaps is not warranted.  You could for example, look at things in other ways.  Rather than removing HBP from the denominator first, then the BB, then the K, then the HR, you can remove all four right away.

So…

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