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Post by James Dunne on Feb 28, 2014 11:11:58 GMT -5
Do you mean sabermetric? Not trying to be an ass - I think you just might have the word wrong, and the confusion is nothing more than that.
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alnipper
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Post by alnipper on Feb 28, 2014 11:31:31 GMT -5
If Betts puts together a year like 2013, he should be ranked number one. Anybody have any similar thoughts on potential jumps that could happen?
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Post by jhenrywaugh, prop. on Feb 28, 2014 14:44:03 GMT -5
Sure, it's all subjective, but it's not relative. Make an argument, and have some data to back it up. And for the love of pete, have a clear, consistent, transparent system for evaluation so I can understand why you like one guy over the next, preferably with a lot of outside perspective. Otherwise you're just me spouting off on the other bar stool, and that's not worth paying a round for. I don't think a clear, consistent, transparent system for evaluating prospects is the sane as ranking them. You can have your system for grading tools. You can categorize things like make-up, proximity to majors, floors, ceilings and even expected outcome, but every player should have such a different profile that figuring out how to rank them with all the different variables is anything but clear and consistent. Add in the fact that these lists are collaborative and it's even more murky. It's why people have started to go with groupings and basically tell us "you guys love lists so we put numbers go them, but you can pretty much take the players between this number and that and put in any order and we won't argue."[/quote] But that's really my point about BP. They are consistent and transparent in their methodology, it doesn't make the task of ranking any easier. In short, they are better at telling you why they ranked someone where they did than other publications. At least that's my contention.
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Post by rjp313jr on Feb 28, 2014 18:14:45 GMT -5
Cyber service = internet based services Nate Silver would have nothing to do with that, and BP started as a book anyway. Was just defining a phrase man - I couldn't understand half his post.
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