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To: JRI who wrote (236165)4/17/2003 11:32:26 AM
From: reaper  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
<<Are you really Billy Bean>>

no. are you really Allard Baird? <g>

look, it has pretty much been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that OPS correlates best to run production (actually, there are some other stats like offensive winning % that are modestly better but friggin hard and long to calculate). and its also true that on average you can pretty reliably predict a hitter's future OPS based on his past OPS progression and his age.

of course, the key words here are (i) "correlate to", which is not the same as "determine"; and (ii) "on average" as opposed to "for every player". that's why they bother to play the games, and why we bother to watch, because sometimes Bret Boone comes out of nowhere, sometimes teams go 30-12 in one-run games (the A's last year), and sometimes teams are remarkably efficient at turning their OPS into runs (the Angels last year).

the guys at Baseball Prospectus ran computer simulations of the baseball season. i'm pretty sure they run the season 100 times, which of course allows for things like injuries and guys having monster years two standard deviations away from what one would 'expect'. if i recall correctly (and i'll try to link you the article later) the Royals did not make the post-season in ANY of the 100 simulations. yeah, i believe in all this stats stuff, but that really shouldn't surprise anybody given that that's exactly how i look at companies too; i couldn't give a rat's *&^% about their "tools" (story), just show me the financials.

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