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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Chris Jones and Jonah Keri debate the intersection of advanced statistics and sportwriting and whether there is tension between the two.
The question is, can we marry great storytelling with analysis? Yes, I think we can. You talk to people, get to know them, get them to open up about their hopes and dreams and fears. You get them to reveal an injury no one else knew they had, or a messy divorce they kept quiet from the public, or a personal tragedy that threw their world off its axis. There you have the how. The results are the what. We just need to connect the two to make it work. And not in a post-hoc, doctoring-the-numbers-to-fit-the-narrative (or vice-versa) way. It has to be authentic.
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1. andrewberg Posted: August 09, 2011 at 06:40 PM (#3896379)My issue with Jones' position here is that I think you can parse watching a game, writing a human interest piece, and doing analysis. The first two can incorporate data, but certainly don't require it. Good analysis requires some modicum of support, and he seems to argue that being a sportswriter makes his arguments self-authenticating with no further proof.
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