Sabermetrics Are Dead

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True Blue L.A.: Sabermetrics Are Dead
Published 4/23/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
True Blue L.A.: Sabermetrics Are Dead Bring out your dead! [BRARP] Bring out your dead! [BRARP] The problem is that there’s too much information out there now. 10 years ago if you wanted to find something like expected BABIP you would have to hire and independent stat provider and do all the calculations around it yourself. Now, any jerk with a blog can go to The Hardball Times, plug four numbers into a spreadsheet and get an answer in seconds for free. Want to know the league leader in line drives allowed last year? Give Baseball Prospectus 30 bucks and find out the ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, April 24
Published 4/24/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... THIS PROBABLY SAYS SOMETHING, THOUGH DARNED IF I KNOW WHAT: On the same day the Web site True Blue L.A. is declaring sabermetrics to be dead -- because its truths are now so ingrained in the mainstream that "there’s very little competitive advantage to be gained from stats based analysis" -- the Kansas City Star reports Royals manager Trey Hillman ...

Thursday's Frosty Mug
Published 4/24/2008 by KLSnow at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
... True Blue LA takes a look at the world around him and reaches an interesting conclusion: Sabermetrics and stat work have become so commonplace that having a stat guy on hand no longer gives teams an advantage. He says Sabermetrics are dead, but that's like saying the internet is dead because everyone uses it. ...

Dodger Thoughts: Opposable Thumbs
Published 4/24/2008 at Dodger Thoughts
Moneyball was never about choosing statistical analysis over scouting, contrary to how some people interpreted it (whether or not they read it). It was about pursuing competitive advantages, often in the face of conventional wisdom, and certain kinds of statistical analysis were simply examples of this at the time. At True Blue L.A. , Andrew Grant makes an interesting argument that game stats are reaching their limit as a weapon for general managers, who will need to find other ways to make themselves useful. Am I saying that we should go back to thinking Juan Pierre is a good ...

Online Video Report: Sony's Minisodes
Published 7/23/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (John Fitzgerald) at Playing for Peanuts Blog
... because you shouldn't "give away outs." Or, in the case of the minisode, sometimes you get five minutes of "Married With Children" and Al Bundy only has a few lines. In short, it looks good on paper, but it sometimes fails to deliver: ...