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Interesting article. I'm not very familiar with baseball, but it seems to me the "moneyball" approach suits better for baseball than basketball. Although both a
by fredliu 12y ago
Interesting article. I'm not very familiar with baseball, but it seems to me the "moneyball" approach suits better for baseball than basketball. Although both are team sports, I kinda agree with Barkley that basketball relies highly on individual talent, e.g. the chance of one-man-rules-the-entire-game seems much higher in basketball than baseball. An extreme hypothetic scenario would be that an average college level team, but with prime time Michael Jordan, probably would easily dominate any other team at the same level. I'm not sure if you can say the same for baseball.
- aveeno2015 12y agoI think there are many things that current statistics don't measure directly: setting good screens, spacing, help defense, match ups, garbage time, lost opportunities, pass that results in another pass to an assist, intentionally resting players to make a championship run, saving energy in a game to make plays in crunch time, etc... Measuring many of these things require judgement and understanding the game...