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Statistical mavens and Sabe... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Andrew | December 7, 2003 10:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Statistical mavens and Sabermetricians are mostly evaluating players to make objective personnel decisions and evaluating teams just for the sake of argument. The BCS, on the other hand, is being used to determine who plays for a championship (instead of a playoff system). There would be plenty of outrage if major league baseball eliminated their playoffs and allowed Sabermetricians to choose one AL team and one NL team to play in the World Series.
1. Posted by Andrew | December 7, 2003 10:45 PM |
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Posted on December 7, 2003 22:45
2. Posted by Cam | December 7, 2003 11:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I tend to agree with Andrew. One's a macro approach (football), one's a micro approach (baseball). Baseball tends to lend itself to obscure and obtuse statistics, where football tends to rely more on more basic statistics (pancake blocks not included).
What's more puzzling to me is why I find baseball more interesting than football, despite the fact that I'm a complete ignoramus when it comes to all things mathmatical.
2. Posted by Cam | December 7, 2003 11:05 PM |
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Posted on December 7, 2003 23:05
3. Posted by Sean Hackbarth | December 7, 2003 11:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
But how is sabermetrics any more "objective" than the computer rankings used in the BCS?
And how come there doesn't seem to be an explanation for why Beane-ball works during the season, but not in the playoffs?
3. Posted by Sean Hackbarth | December 7, 2003 11:50 PM |
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Posted on December 7, 2003 23:50