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Monday, February 04, 2008

The future of sabermetrics

By Tangotiger, 04:01 PM

The pinnacle of Sabermetrics is the convergence of performance analysis and scouting observations. To that end, the future of sabermetrics will be the processing of the pitch-by-pitch data. So, a very micro-analysis. Bill James looks at the answer to the question from a very macro-perspective:

League-perspective decision making. Looking at decisions based from the standpoint of the league. Simple example: the wild card....

I know why what I’m saying is a candidate for the future of sabermetrics. I don’t know why what he says is. That’s not to say that he’s wrong, but I just don’t see what he’s seeing.

I was bothered by this statement, especially in conjunction with a later statement where he says he doesn’t keep up with what around, other than Retrosheet:

Then we created “profiles"… which contain all kinds of information about the teams and the players that you don’t have any other way of knowing, at least now; of course other people will rip us off, and the same information will be appearing on other sites in a matter of months.

I really wish he wasn’t so forceful about his statements here. Especially when he’s wrong.

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