tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5886941082283226710.post976438757730540625..comments2023-11-03T09:22:53.516-04:00Comments on In Dayton We Trust: A wrap on interleagueThe Taohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5886941082283226710.post-22931104290166960752007-06-26T10:47:00.000-04:002007-06-26T10:47:00.000-04:00If it clarifies the point of my post any, pretend ...If it clarifies the point of my post any, pretend I didn't use the word "Moneyball." I didn't mean to imply that that fine book is ABOUT on-base percentage, since saying such a thing would be inaccurate and, apparently, offensive. But OBP does correlate strongly with runs scored and wins, and the baseball establishment has indeed come around, by and large, to a stat that it didn't value nearly as strongly 5-10 years prior. <BR/><BR/>As for sportswriters: yeah, plenty of them haven't come around on, say, valuing slugging pct. over RBIs, but it's not really what the majority of fans want, and newspapers are in the business of serving its readers after all. So it is what it is, I suppose.The Taohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07647424661870773417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5886941082283226710.post-90901246016404296792007-06-26T07:39:00.000-04:002007-06-26T07:39:00.000-04:00Repeat after me: Moneyball is not about OBP! Money...Repeat after me: Moneyball is not about OBP! Moneyball is about using statistics to find UNDERVALUED player qualities that correlate strongly to wins.<BR/><BR/>A Moneyball team is a team which looks at the player market and finds and exploits its inefficiencies. At the time Lewis wrote, there was a huge undervaluation of OBP. We're starting to come out of those dark ages, but some sportswriters still think of OBP as a "nerd statistic".gcmarxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10082214430755922048noreply@blogger.com