January 21, 2004
What Matters
Alan Schwarz has an excellent column on what statistics matter to baseball people; GM's, news media and fans. He looks at what stats are good at telling us about the present and which are good at telling us about the future. Most interesting, he now considers defensive efficiency a main stream stat!
There's been great progress in the last 25 years in how people think about baseball. This article is a good demonstration of that.
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Good article for newbies. ;) He mentions park factor serveral times in the article, but I wish he would have expanded on that topic a bit, perhaps actually talking about Park Factor and maybe something like ERA+ or OPS+.
