The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
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The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
Teams are increasingly using every tool at their disposal to make these decisions. The information revolution has lived up to its billing in baseball, even though it has been a letdown in so many other fields, because of the sport’s unique combination of rapidly developing technology, well-aligned incentives, tough competition, and rich data.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Baseball offers perhaps the world’s richest data set: pretty much everything that has happened on a major-league playing field in the past 140 years has been dutifully and accurately recorded, and hundreds of players play in the big leagues every year.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
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**Note:** Box score - speaking about my experience recording stats at baseball games with my dadJacobs argues that “strangely enough, baseball was better when we knew less about the most effective way to play it.” In Jacobs’s view, when everyone knows the most efficient way to play the game, the game as a whole loses its color and variety.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Limits of Optimization
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This simple tool supported the collection of a surprising amount of data. Most of this data told us what had happened in a game, and it required relatively straightforward calculations to yield useful information about player performance. A more sophisticated class of statistics was then made possible by computation. My sense, too, is that there wa... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Limits of Optimization
Alex Wittenberg added
state-of-the-art system that tracks how well fielders play hit balls and make throws.