Sabermetric Site to Visit - Patriot (July 25, 2003)
Fanhome's Patriot has some great SABR 101/201 type of material here. I encourage you to read all of it.
--posted by TangoTiger at 03:36 PM EDT
Posted 4:11 p.m.,
July 25, 2003
(#1) -
jto
Tango, there is no link to Patriot's site....
Posted 4:30 p.m.,
July 25, 2003
(#2) -
jto
thanks, it works...
Posted 6:58 p.m.,
July 25, 2003
(#3) -
David Smyth
Hey, is Patriot still 17 yrs old? :)
Seriously, I had not seen Pat's updated site. I am impressed. I will have to spend some time to absorb all that is there.
And I notice that Patriot is very complimentary to me in his comments. Thanks, bro.
Posted 7:25 p.m.,
July 25, 2003
(#4) -
Patriot
I'm only complimentary to people who deserve it. I'm not so nice to that guy from the baseball library website :)
Posted 12:55 p.m.,
July 28, 2003
(#5) -
studes
(homepage)
This will probably strike you as silly, but Patriot's essay on linear weights reminds me that, a long time ago, I worked out my own, easy-to-remember relative scale for batting events. I figured this out after first reading about Paul Johnson's Extrapolated Runs. My scale is: 9(home run), 7(triple), 5(double), 3(single), 2(walk) and 1(stolen base). In reading Patriot's essay, I saw that the scale fits almost perfectly.
The absolute numbers make no sense, but I've often used the relative scale off the top of my head to remember how valuable different batting events are compared to each other. (eg a home run is worth three singles).