September 7, 2013
How statistics is changing baseball
From the New York Times:
Statistical analysis has swept through baseball over the past decade, becoming part of the fabric of the game and an object of growing fascination to its fans. As players, managers and front office executives embrace the esoteric statistics, teams increasingly want their radio announcers just as fluent in the language of WAR, VORP and B.A.B.I.P.
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Atakohu Middleton is an Auckland journalist with a keen interest in the way the media uses/abuses data. She happens to be married to a statistician. See all posts by Atakohu Middleton »
Well, statistics is already part not just in baseball but in almost all sport. They can almost predict the outcome of every game or even the entire season just by looking on the statistics of every team in the league.
11 years ago