Sabermetric Site to Visit - ESPN (July 25, 2003)
Pretty cool. I'm surprised Larry Walker is such a GB hitter.
--posted by TangoTiger at 03:21 PM EDT
Posted 7:43 p.m.,
July 25, 2003
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Patriot
Thanks, I didn't know about this. Too bad they use RC, but I guess it's progress just to have it. I never would have guessed that Trot was 4th in R/O.
Posted 3:05 p.m.,
July 29, 2003
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Sylvain(e-mail)
Hijack.... I looked for a similar discussion but coulnd't find one.
I discovered sabermetrics through this website, and discovered this website thanks to baseball reference. However what I haven't found yet is a site cataloging all the sabermetrics concept developed here, on prospectus, fanhome, or any other place, and organizing them, saying who developed them, linking to discussions, data, etc. For example Global Evaluation Tool > Win Shares, tool developed by Bill James> the 2003 Win Shares can be found on Baseball Graph > and Tangotiger and Rob Wood propose a critic (clink to have access to the Pdf). Does such a site exist ? Skilton's Baseball links does a good work of linking to as many sites as possible however it isn't organized based on the ideas/stats. I think such a site might be very useful especially for newcomers (what does RC mean? Is it a good stat?) and I'd be willing to develop such a site or help. The categories would be subject to discussion (offence/defense/etc).
Thanks for your comments/links/ideas/whatever
Sylvain
Posted 3:31 p.m.,
July 29, 2003
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tangotiger
Well, you can visit my site for my individual work, and that's been categorized.
For a more all-encompassing, you can go to baseballstuff.com , and I believe that James Fraser or Jim Furtado's sites (see links on the right on that site) has a pretty good list of such topics and categories.
My suggestion, to those who really want to do this, and it'll be alot of work, is to be an "editor" on the open source directory, specifically for sabermetrics, and build the thing directly there. The value is that many search sites use that open source directory (including google I believe) to build their search engines.
Posted 8:18 a.m.,
July 30, 2003
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Sylvain(e-mail)
Thanks for the info. It actually been a long time since I hadn't visited the baseballstuff site and I highly recommend it(even though I haven't read every article yet).
Though my idea would not consist in hosting articles, but just in providing links and organizing them. A kind of baseball links, with a mix of baseball reference (I don't know if everybody understands what I mean...). Or like the Prospectus Glossary, but organized by themes (and more exhaustive).
If this is what you meant with your suggestion (although it seems complicated; it's not as if I was a website development god and had fully understood what you said), well, then I'm interested in participating/doing it, even alone if the people here think it is worth it (but then lower your expectations).
Thanks,
Sylvain
Posted 11:10 a.m.,
July 30, 2003
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tangotiger
Yes, my idea was simply to have a set of links, just like John Skilton's site, but better (with categories along the lines of what I have on my site, and expanded).
If you want to create such an index, and if the open-source directory that Google uses doesn't want it, I'd be happy to post it here.
Posted 11:26 a.m.,
July 30, 2003
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Sylvain(e-mail)
Ok, then we agree on the idea.
Now I'm gonna think the technical details and specifications. Yet, if you know any links, post them here.
Thanks a lot.
Sylvain