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DIPS year-to-year correlations, 1972-1992 (August 5, 2003)

Posted 6:40 p.m., August 5, 2003 (#23) - J Michael Neal(e-mail)
  Correct me if I'm wrong (I just took a final this afternoon and am kind of fried; it was a statistics class, oddly enough) but could the correlation difference mean not that outfield defense is more important, but that there is more variation in it? I think that there's some chance that teams are more willing to throw out three crappy outfielders than that they are willing to do the same with bad middle infielders, so the difference between the best and the worst outfield defenses could be greater than the difference between the best and worst infield defenses.