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proxy.espn.go.com - 12/15/2008
'That's Debatable,' with Rob Neyer
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baseballthinkfactory.org - 12/20/2008
Rob Neyer: Explaining some new math
— baseballthinkfactory.org — As you know, I’ve been wrestling with this notion of positional adjustments, which on Thursday led to... the following e-mail exchange with FanGraphs’ Eric Seidman … Eric: Rob, I thought I would try to see if I could clarify the adjustments for you. ... (more) Rob Neyer: Explaining some new math

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sports.espn.go.com - 12/19/2008
Rob Neyer Blog
— sports.espn.go.com — Posted by Rob Neyer As you know, I've been wrestling with this notion of positional adjustments ,... which on Thursday led to the following e-mail exchange with FanGraphs' Eric Seidman Eric: Rob, I thought I would try to see if I could clarify the ... (more) Rob Neyer Blog

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sports.espn.go.com - 12/16/2008
Rob Neyer Blog
— sports.espn.go.com — The signing of Burnett leads to two other potential problems. One is that $16 million per season... could have gone a long way toward improving an offense that declined from outstanding in 2007 to merely good in 2008, and is counting on too many older ... (more) Rob Neyer Blog

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Gaslamp Ball:  Is Peavy a product of Petco Park?

Friar Forecast:  Productively wasting time

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Is Peavy a product of Petco Park?
Gaslamp Ball — Is Peavy a product of Petco Park? As Peavy trade talks continue, Rob Neyer writes an Interesting article on Peavy and his Petco numbers versus road numbers. I say of course his numbers are slightly better, but who's shouldn't be in a pitcher friendly ...

Productively wasting time
Friar Forecast — Rob Neyer’s post (h/t: GLB) about Jake Peavy and Petco got me thinkin’ about park factors. The conventional* way to figure a pitcher’s park factor for a season is to take his home park PF and 100 (for all other parks) and average them together. So Peavy pitches in Petco, which has a PF of, let’s say, 84 for a given year. We do 84+100/2=92. That’s Peavy’s PF for that year, and that’s what we’ll use to adjust his stats. *When I say conventional, I mean the norm at saber analysis type blogs, message boards, etc., ...

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