I participated in an AAAS symposia today on New Techniques in the Evaluation and Prediction of Baseball Performance. Thanks to Ed Aboufadel of Grand Valley State University for the invitation. Shane Jensen presented his SAFE system, a more sophisticated version of the Probabilistic Model of Range (PMR). Steve Wang showed new ways of visualizing data, concentrating on managers. Both were very interesting, and Alan Schwarz kept us on our toes as the moderator.

I talked about the Probabilistic Model of Range, and you can view the slide show here. One nice thing at this conference was a press conference after the talk. I've never done one of those before, and I must say the science writers asked very good questions. This was an unusual topic for this meeting but it went over well.

Update: AP covered the talk.

Update: Some browsers can't run the slide show. It works with IE. For those who can't you can download the actual power point presentation.

Download PowerPoint 2007 version. Unfortunately, the charts I used aren't compatible with PowerPoint 2003.

Also, word that Jeter is at the bottom of the list of shortstops doesn't play well with Yankees fans.