Thursday, December 19, 2013
How easy is it to make 1000$?
All you have to do is read the article that Poz has linked to. You make up complete nonsense about a topic you know nothing about, like this:
But Sabermetrics has its flaws. One of them, for evaluation purposes regarding the Hall, is not accounting enough for statistics era to era. A 3.00 ERA in 1968 didn’t mean nearly as much as a 3.00 ERA in 1995, for example.
Sabermetrics is ENTIRELY about this! This goes back to Pete Palmer's The Hidden Game some thirty years ago, as well as all of the Bill James Abstracts.
I had a quote in The Book, right there on the first page of the first chapter:
Everything about baseball (for that matter, everything about anything) is about context. All actions, events, data, and information are meaningless without context. And we don't mean meaningless in some theoretical sense, but in an actual, practical sense. Consider these words that you are reading right now. The primary context is the English language. You can expand that context to include the subject matter, baseball. Without understanding English and baseball, the words on this page and throughout the book would be gibberish to the reader.
To suggest that sabermetrics doesn't consider the era of a player is to simply admit that you know zero about sabermetrics. Actually, less than zero, because a person who knows zero would offer no opinion on the matter of sabermetrics. This writer says the exact opposite of what sabermetrics is. It does everything he wants it to do, and he's still against it. He'd make a wonderful politician, and by that, I mean, a typical clueless politician. How does an editor even allow such a piece to be posted?
Anyway, Poz has the nice takedown, if you want to read that first.?
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