August 25, 2015
THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT THINGS SABERMETRICS TAUGHT US...:
Moneyball 2.0: Keeping players healthy (Rick Maese August 24, 2015, Washington Post)
By combining a variety of metrics and risk factors, David Tenney, the sports science and performance manager for MLS's Seattle Sounders, feels his team has a strong understanding of probabilities. For example, he says the two biggest risk factors for injury are a previous injury and a player's age."So you build those two things into your model right away," he said.
...are that results are to some considerable degree a function of luck (BABIP) and health is a skill.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 25, 2015 7:18 PM
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