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From: petec@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Question about baseball stats.
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Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 15:19:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  2 15:19:52 1983
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 Striking out is counted as 'not hitting the ball', and thus is a measure of
how well someone hits. Kingman's SP is high only because he hits lots of homers.
 People may have invented new statistics that add or subtract certain stats in
order to come up with new or better way of comparison; this is not necessarily
bad. One of the more interesting books on baseball that I've seen in a long
time is 'Bill James Baseball Abstract', in which he does exactly this; it is
often amazing and insightful. However, SP is a 'pure' statistic, like BA, and
is not fiddled with by adding this and subtracting that.
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