Sal Baxamusa recently wrote a great article on the hierarchy of baseball knowledge and regression (there can never be enough written about regression). It’s worth reading — and even has nice pictures — but the reason I mention it is because of a question left in the comments. I can’t figure out if the poster is being sarcastic or not, but either way, it’s hilarious. What do you think?
I have heard it said that all teams win sixty and lose sixty [and] it’s the remaining 42 that determine who goes to the playoffs. So all this number crunching over pitching, batting, defense etc is the tail wagging the dog. Figure out which games are the most important. Is a win or loss in April more or less important than one in September? Why risk injuring your best players on a meaningless loss or meaningless win [and] save them for the important 42?
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April 19th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Interesting. I’m trying to give the commenter the benefit of the doubt that maybe they didn’t think it all the way through before they hit the ’submit’ button, but I’m having a difficult time.
Also, could you provide a link to the article you mention? I’d like to give it a read (yes, I’m too lazy to google the author’s name).
April 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Thanks, roarke, the article’s updated with the link and the correct spelling of Sal’s last name.