Linear Weights by Batting Order (January 2, 2004)
This was a thread at fanhome from 3 years ago on optimizing the batting order. It's a 5-page thread, and should take you several hours/days to get through. Please note that it took me all the way to page 4 for me to take PAs into account, and this invalidates alot of my conclusions up until then. However, the process/journey is the fun part, and all of that still is valid.
I'm currently working on redoing all this work in a much tighter, better way to present, as well as using other tools at my disposal (stuff that I didn't have back then). This will make it into the eventual book, whenever that is.
Note: Because alot of what I did is going to be redone, and I'm in the middle of doing it, I'm not going to be following the dialogue on this thread, though I will check it out after I've finished my new work on it.
--posted by TangoTiger at 11:17 AM EDT
Posted 1:19 p.m.,
January 2, 2004
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Greg Tamer(e-mail)
I'm looking forward to the book, TangoTiger. Let me know if ever need help with the menial tasks. I'll be like a knight in Warcraft II...(deep, deep voice) "Ready to serve, my Lord."
All this great baseball analysis...not enough time.
Posted 10:36 a.m.,
January 3, 2004
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Matt Rauseo
This is actualy a really important thread to read. If people are intrested in this sort of thing and haven't please do. I think it is clearly the best stuff tango has done, an increadibly educational. In fact this was the first thread that I really "got" how powerful linear weights are since you can custimize them for any context.
Posted 10:58 a.m.,
March 22, 2004
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tangotiger
(homepage)
I made a long comment about batting orders here.