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Thursday, January 31, 2008

WOWY: Measuring the DP

By Tangotiger, 01:37 PM

I’m starting to cast my With Or Without You (WOWY) system to the double play.  I thought it would be fairly straightforward: count the 4 base states with a runner on 1B, likely separately, outs less than 2, find out who the other guy’s DP partner was, the handedness of the pitcher/batter, and/or the tendency for the pitcher/batter to get balls hit to 2B or SS, lather, rinse, repeat.  But, Peter brought up many points in an email exchange, of which I will post here, and I hope others can chime in with their thoughts.  Note also that I’m not looking necessarily as to an evaluation as to whether it’s worth it or not.  I’m only looking at the consideratations, the parameters to think about:

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