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Obscure Rule Flags Students Who Sharply Improve SAT Scores (January 21, 2004)
Discussion ThreadPosted 1:49 p.m.,
January 22, 2004
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Mark Field
Small world dept:
My parents both went to Bradley. Sam, are you from Peoria?
Obscure Rule Flags Students Who Sharply Improve SAT Scores (January 21, 2004)
Posted 4:25 p.m.,
January 22, 2004
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Mark Field
Born in New York, raised in Miami. Before I went to Bradely, I'd never been to Peoria!
Must have been quite the culture shock.
Obscure Rule Flags Students Who Sharply Improve SAT Scores (January 21, 2004)
Posted 6:58 p.m.,
January 22, 2004
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Mark Field
When my parents went to Bradley, Chick Hearn was the basketball announcer there (that was before the gambling scandal -- Bradley had top quality teams). Then they moved to CA and Hearn was broadcasting the Lakers. They thought he just did ALL basketball games.
And some people say Peoria's a small town.
How Valuable Is Base Running and Who Are the Best and the Worst? (February 10, 2004)
Posted 12:48 p.m.,
February 11, 2004
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Mark Field
these adjustments to a player's offensive contributions are somewhere between marginal and neglible
I'm not so sure. In a given year, yeah the difference between best and worst amounts to about one win per year. But over the course of a 15-20 year career, this difference does give us a better appreciation for guys like Larkin or Henderson compared to, say, Delgado or Manny.
I think sabermetrics is still at the stage of overemphasizing batting because that can be measured so well. I applaud MGL for adding in the defensive and baserunning contributions precisely because it leads to comments like the one he made about Delgado, which I see as counter to what most -- including me -- might have said after just looking at OPS+.
How Valuable Is Base Running and Who Are the Best and the Worst? (February 10, 2004)
Posted 4:14 p.m.,
February 11, 2004
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Mark Field
Bill James once commented that players like Ron Roenicke, who do everything a little above average but nothing a lot above average, tend to be underrated. I think the same applies to these seemingly minor aspects of play -- it's easy to forget how these "little" things can add up.
Being able to play shortstop is worth, say, 1.5 wins per year over being a first baseman (that's tango's estimate; I think it's low). A good fielder at short might be worth 3 wins above average; a bad fielder at first could cost you a win. If the shortstop can run the bases well and the first baseman can't, all of a sudden he's accounted for 5.5 wins relative to that first baseman before we even get to offense. It takes a very good hitter to make up that kind of disparity.