02-09-2009, 06:21 PM
<!--quoteo(post=16869:date=Feb 9 2009, 03:56 PM:name=leonardsipes)-->QUOTE (leonardsipes @ Feb 9 2009, 03:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=16862:date=Feb 9 2009, 03:45 PM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Feb 9 2009, 03:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=16861:date=Feb 9 2009, 02:41 PM:name=KBwsb)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (KBwsb @ Feb 9 2009, 02:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Well, that's accurate, rok. I agree with that 100%. Stats can't tell you everything, and nothing replaces the joy of watching a ballgame.
But a few people on the site have turned it into a <b>black-and-white thing, a line in the sand: if you bring stats into any baseball discussion, you must never watch the actual sport</b>. Ludicrous as hell, yet some posters still cling to it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] Who? Everybody likes stats, it's just usually they don't tell the whole story.
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It just seems to me from watching baseball and life in general that clutch has to exist. Just because stats use math, does not necessarily make them more valid than human observation. Statistical analysis is based on many assumptions(biases) that are explained away by invoking the law of large numbers. Unless the stats disagree with the person's opinions and then they are based on insufficient sample size.
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Human observation can be pretty faulty.
But a few people on the site have turned it into a <b>black-and-white thing, a line in the sand: if you bring stats into any baseball discussion, you must never watch the actual sport</b>. Ludicrous as hell, yet some posters still cling to it.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] Who? Everybody likes stats, it's just usually they don't tell the whole story.
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It just seems to me from watching baseball and life in general that clutch has to exist. Just because stats use math, does not necessarily make them more valid than human observation. Statistical analysis is based on many assumptions(biases) that are explained away by invoking the law of large numbers. Unless the stats disagree with the person's opinions and then they are based on insufficient sample size.
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Human observation can be pretty faulty.