Jul
14
2008
Players’ Skills Are Not Defined By Their First Half Stats
Posted by: Sky in Around the WebI was going to write a post with the above title, but Sal Baxamusa beat me to it over at The Hardball Times.
Not only does he lay out the argument that first half stats are merely a sampling of each player’s underlying skills, but he includes some nifty spreadsheets that will spit out a current Marcel projection for any pitcher or hitter just by copying and pasting data from the Hardball Times’ player pages.
Moral of the story: don’t just quote a player’s first half stats as proof of how he will perform during the second half.
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Sky is a baseball fan and racket sport afficianado living in upstate NY. His favorite color is orange and is just about ready to give up on his life-long dream to become the next Magnus ver Magnuson (World's Strongest Man). His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees and Red Sox, proving that there's hope in the Middle East.