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The Other Fifteen: How important is the narrative?
otherfifteen.blogspot.com - 4/2/2008
The Other Fifteen: How important is the narrative?
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A very nice article about the narrative of baseball, why we love it, and why it presents problems between sabermetricians and the ordinary fan.

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Aristotle, Casablanca, and Win Probability?
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball — Very cool article by Colin. Because in the narrative, clutch hitting does have to exist. If you’re trying to boil a ballgame down to a simple narrative… then you are boiling the game down to a handful of plays, and thus making those plays stand in for the entire game. You create heroes and villains, successes and failures, tragedies and comedies. In the narrative, you have to have clutch. Have to.

THT Live: How important is the narrative?
The Hardball Times — How important is the narrative? by Dave Studeman April 02, 2008 This is a great little piece articulating the appeal of clutch hitting (because we all like a good story) and calling for a truce between the anti- and pro-clutch crowds. Hat tip: Tango. Dave is the manager of the ...

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Friar Forecast — A bullet-point, abbreviated edition: Cust Eats Fastballs for Lunch — This is what happens when Mike Fast takes on hitters …. Tango’s Clutch project – Tango talks about his clutch project at HBT. How important is the narrative? – Great post on WPA and clutchness. Third Base coaches — The usual cool work from Pizza Cutter. MVP candidates — Melvin reports that the Pads have had a player in the top 10 of each MVP race since ‘04. Didn’t know that. ...