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Monday, January 18, 2010

SI.com: Marchman: Random Stat of the Day

Since statistics are so important in baseball, it’s always good to be reminded that they shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

A correlation coefficient measures how closely related two numbers are, with +1 meaning a perfect linear relationship and -1 meaning the inverse. The following just shows how closely several factors correlated with team wins in 2009. This isn’t especially meaningful… it’s just interesting (particularly the difference between fielding percentage and UZR).

On-base average: 0.48
Opening Day payroll: 0.47
Fielding percentage: 0.39
Market size: 0.35
Unemployment rate as of November 2009: 0.33
Batting average with runners in scoring position: 0.24
UZR: 0.23
Random number: -0.17

Crashburn Alley Posted: January 18, 2010 at 04:28 AM | 6 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
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   1. DCA Posted: January 18, 2010 at 05:09 AM (#3440018)
Unemployment rate as of November 2009: 0.33

So higher unemployment correlates with more wins? Obviously this means that real fans get laid off so that their team does better.
   2. McCoy Posted: January 18, 2010 at 05:14 AM (#3440020)
Detroit is going to win 120 games this year.
   3. Home Run Teal & Black Black Black Gone! Posted: January 18, 2010 at 05:29 AM (#3440025)
WHAT.
   4. Home Run Teal & Black Black Black Gone! Posted: January 18, 2010 at 05:29 AM (#3440026)
OH.
   5. Eugene Freedman Posted: January 18, 2010 at 12:34 PM (#3440084)
From TFA:

You used to hear talk from time to time about the Jody Reed Award, named for the so-so shortstop who was once inexplicably offered a three-year, $8 million deal by the Dodgers, even more inexplicably turned it down, and ended up signing with the Brewers for the league minimum. I'm not sure it should be renamed for Adam LaRoche, but it's a question worth pondering. After reportedly turning down a $17 million offer from the Giants, he signed with the Diamondbacks this week for $6 million guaranteed.


Maybe if these baseball writers would get out of their basements and watch a game once in a while they'd know the difference between the left and right side of second base. Jody Reed was a secondbaseman!!!
   6. Darren Posted: January 18, 2010 at 01:54 PM (#3440098)
Ah, Reed played some short early on.
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