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On Dec. 30, 2011, financial guru Harry Dent was quoted in Bloomberg making a bold prediction: In 2012, the S&P 500 stock index of America's biggest companies would see its value cut in half, or at ...
The creation of the box score has given baseball statisticians a summary of the individual and team performances for a given game. [ 3 ] What would become the earliest Sabermetrics research in the 1970s and 1980s began in the middle of the 20th century with the writings of Earnshaw Cook , one of the earliest baseball analysts.
Defense-Independent Component ERA (DICE) is a 21st-century variation on Component ERA, one of an increasing number of baseball sabermetrics that fall under the umbrella of defense independent pitching statistics. DICE was created by Clay Dreslough in 2001. [1] The formula for Defense-Independent Component ERA (DICE) is:
PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, [1] is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime batting average of .249, is perhaps representative of the typical PECOTA entry.
Extrapolated Runs (XR) is a baseball statistic invented by sabermetrician Jim Furtado to estimate the number of runs a hitter contributes to his team. XR measures essentially the same thing as Bill James' Runs Created, but it is a linear weights formula that assigns a run value to each event, rather than a multiplicative formula like James' creation.
The Special Baseball Records Committee of 1969 voted to include the American League, National League, American Association, Union Association, Federal League and Players' League but did not give ...
Russell Earl "Bucky" Dent (né O'Dey; born November 25, 1951) is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox , New York Yankees , Texas Rangers , and Kansas City Royals from 1973 to 1984.
Speed Score, often simply abbreviated to Spd, is a statistic used in Sabermetric studies to evaluate a baseball player's speed. It was invented by Bill James, and first appeared in the 1987 edition of the Bill James Baseball Abstract. [1] Speed score is on a scale of 0 to 10, with zero being the slowest and ten being the fastest.