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baseballthinkfactory.org - 12/22/2007
N.Y. Times: Cole and Stigler: More Juice, Less Punch (RR)
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What happens when you mix a professor of sociology with a professor of statistics? This… Barry Bonds’s career has been the most scrutinized, and in fact his home run production in the years after he supposedly started taking drugs does show significant average gains. But individuals always vary, and choosing specific cases does not yield general conclusions. What should not be overlooked ...

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Sabernomics:  Statisticians Examine the Mitchell Report’s Findings

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Statisticians Examine the Mitchell Report’s Findings
Sabernomics — ... extended the years they played at a high level, although that is a difficult question to answer. This confirms Stephenson’s simple analysis. I’m sure it will be easy to find quibbles and possible alternate explanations for these results; but please, keep in mind that the authors are limited by what they can say in 800 words. Aside: Stephen Stigler is the son of Nobel Prize winning economist George Stigler. Thanks to Repoz for the pointer.

Rounding The Bases: 12/26, Back To Drugs & Hate
Bugs & Cranks — 26*. (Or Curt Schilling wants you to respekanize the New York Mets, winners of the 2000 World Series.) [ NY Times ] Your Weekly PEDs Don’t E P Story:“There is no convincing way to demonstrate that Bonds’s performance owed more to drugs than Ruth’s did to his prodigious use of alcohol and tobacco,” say Columbia sociology professor & U of Chicago stats professor. [ NY Times ] [ BBTF ] [ Sabernomics ] I had assumed Baltimore, like pre- Rocky IV Russia, had no concept of Christmas, but apparently I was wrong. (I also find the idea of someone blogging about the ...

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