* The WSJ's Numbers Guy on…well, numbers

May 12, 2008

In his May 8 column, Carl Bialik, aka, The Numbers Guy, offers “a reading list of articles about sports numbers, from the true distance of legendary home runs to a formula for measuring the chance of a basketball comeback.”

The baseball portion of the piece includes:

  • 565: The number of feet Mickey Mantle’s home run traveled 55 years ago. There’s a lot of legend behind this one, which seems to be the alpha of measuring homer distances.
  • “On Hardball Times, Mike Fast proposes 22 potential areas of research, including: “Can we quantify the performance and tendencies of umpires?” and “Can we detect or quantify pitcher fatigue or injury?””

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