Lies, Damned Lies: All-Star Balloting by Nate Silver

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“Fixing” the All-Star selection system
Published 6/30/2007 by Pizza Cutter at Statistically Speaking
... Today over at Baseball Prospectus, Nate Silver takes a look at voting patterns for the All-Star game.  (Subscription needed.)  Nate finds that some players get a little bump just from wearing the uniform of certain teams (*cough*Yankees*cough*) and suffer for being a member of one of the non-cool teams.  MLB will reveal the winners of the balloting soon, and then the reserves will be named, and then for about a week, you can count on the usual yearly spate of columns about how to “fix” a system that so unjustly excluded (insert player name here) from being an All-Star.  Mind you, we don’t see columns about fixing the ...