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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Using wOBA

By Tangotiger, 03:49 PM

Here’s a good piece on being introduced to wOBA and how to use it.  If he’s using the Fangraphs data, it includes SB and CS, so that should be added in there.  The coefficients are around .25 and -.50.

I liked his closing line:

...and the countless other blogs and books that refuse to stop thinking and arguing about baseball.

Great line.

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