Baseball stats: innovation, randomness, and other issues
OK, Lee. Here’s something for you about baseball. OK, it’s really about baseball statistics, not baseball itself. That’s the best I can do, I’m afraid.
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OK, Lee. Here’s something for you about baseball. OK, it’s really about baseball statistics, not baseball itself. That’s the best I can do, I’m afraid.
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Baseball statistics are just a quantitative way to describe what’s happening on the field (or predict what will happen), so yes, it’s about baseball.
I haven’t looked at it again for a long time, but a good starting place is David Grabiner’s Sabermetric Manifesto:
http://www.baseball1.com/bb-data/grabiner/manifesto.html
Posted by: Jonathan Bernstein | August 24, 2009 04:54 PM