⚾️ there’s no cryin’ in baseball
- So, is Jacobs right to say that baseball was better when we knew less about it? And here we are at the crux of the issue from another angle: how is the goodness of the game measured and accounted for? Or, more to the point, can the goodness of the game be measured? If not, then in what would the goodness of the game consist? And, an equally interes... See more
from The Limits of Optimization by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Mike "Bagel" added 1mo ago
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.
from The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
Mike "Bagel" added 1mo ago
- Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the tea... See more
from MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
Mike "Bagel" added 1mo ago
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