THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Watching a baseball game is like watching a tourist play blackjack

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I generally watch 2 or 3 games a day. I don’t specifically keep track, but I would guess that the number of strategic mistakes by the average manager is at least one per game. I would also guess that each mistake costs at least .02 wins, which would mean at least 3 wins in mistakes per season.

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