Just received the revised edition of The Hidden Game of Baseball: A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics
If you know anything at all about me, it’s that I have an aversion to math (and baseball fiction). Which is a paradox, since I excelled in it at school. The intervening years have not been kind to my computational/analytic abilities. When it comes to baseball, I think this is due to an inability to just shut up and accept the various formulas used to arrive at the metric in question. I mean, I can do the math, as it were, but I get hung up on how the creators of these things decide that it should be — and I’m making this up — A= (.75 x 3) + (B/4), rather than (.55 x 3) + (B/8). Overthinking; it’s a curse. As that eminent philosopher Tim McCarver said, “You think long, you think wrong.”
Nevertheless, I think I speak for a lot of readers when I say I’m anxious (in a good way, not a fearful way) to see how the authors have either stuck to their guns since the book was originally published a generation (30 years) ago or evolved as new information has been accepted into the statistical vernacular.
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