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From: [email protected] (Paul Andresen)
Subject: Re: Braves Pitching UpdateDIR
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Sherri Nichols) writes:
|> In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
|> >This certainly passes the "common sense test" for me, but is there any
|> >statistical evidence to say what percent of defense is pitching and what
|> >percent is fielding?
|>
|> Not yet; I wish there were. It's much more difficult to tease these apart
|> than to tease apart scoring runs and preventing runs.
And thus, we come to one of the true beauties of baseball; these things, along
with many others will never be separated. Almost *everything* in baseball is
situational and interdependent. This is what allows us to carry on all the
arguments that we have. If everything could be explained and balanced on a
statistical basis, none of the wonder and mystery would be left. Why we might
have to resort to just going out the ballyard and enjoy the game itself.
--->Paul, feeling a little anti-stathead today
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