I've recompiled my big correlations-list using the team data for the entire 2023 season. This tells you what stats are useful measurements and predictors of offensive production (wOBA, OPS) and which are not (strikeout percentage, contact percentage).

you're telling me analytics HELPED a player?!.

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A college football program that I'm not sure is top-30 in the nation has a true freshman kicker who just nailed one with EASE from 54 yards.

And NDSU has a chance to upset #17 Kansas State! I'm gonna pass out.

i really just needed ONE big upset today to fuel me, so this is great, but the fact that #19 Texas A&M, #14 Michigan, and #21 Ole Miss all are playing "fairly close" (within 2-score) games with a chance to get upset has me feeling dizzy

one look at Arch forehead tell you that boy a Manning.

slugging percentage or "power" is not "only 1 minor piece to hitting".

I'm just so shocked, you can see now that I've switched into the serious "writer" voice with correct punctuation. I can actually feel my blood pressure spiking. Almost feel mad. You're telling me the Yankees never thought to tell him to, say, aim for different parts of the zone?.

This is why the best athletes often don't make the best coaches. Sometimes they can just "get by" doing things naturally without ever stopping to think about WHY they're doing it.

i'm sitting here in stunned silence, muted the football game, just contemplating what has to go into a Major League pitcher playing 20 years of professional ball across 7 Major League organizations before someone goes "hey what if you AIM".

you're telling me it took 16 years for Aroldis Chapman to realize he should aim his pitches?!.

I'm sure people will be very normal and not super racist about this.

@baseball_ref Nineveh was the favorite going into the playoffs but Akkad took them down in the ALCS (think Diamondbacks/Phillies) before getting trounced by Babylon in the WS. .

baseball reference doesn't want you to know this, but they've been tracking Major League stats for almost 5,000 years

You can't say the lower AVG means hitters are worse if you also recognize that teams aren't striving for AVG anymore! The goals have changed!.

(Not knocking NG just soapboxing off of his tweet, as I often do).

What's funny is, people will say "batting average is lower, therefore modern hitters are worse" while also believing modern PITCHERS are worse, while ALSO believing that the problem with the game is that teams today don't value/strive for batting average. .

Things that do not matter when evaluating the utility of a stat:.• What it is called. • How complicated it is to calculate. Things that DO matter:.• Does the stat accurately measure what it purports to measure?.• Is the information that it provides useful?.

If Schwarber finishes his career at or close to 400 (and I hope 400 is WELL in his rearview mirror when he hangs it up) this could still happen!.

"home runs are mistakes" guy also said today that you can't use probability in baseball.

Thankfully Aaron Nola got a Pitcher Win by just buckling down and willing his offense to put 19 runs on the board!.