Summary
In this article I use the concept of dominance to provide an answer to the question of what the best season by a hitter in British top-tier baseball is this century.
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Summary
In this article I explore the question of whether advanced baseball analysis (or “sabermetrics”) has a place in amateur baseball, such as the National Baseball League in Britain.
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The launch of our Keeping Score season may have left some baseball fans thinking out loud: “well I’ve heard of this ‘keeping score’ lark, but I’m not entirely sure what the point of it is”. If that was your reaction then hopefully this article will help to answer some of your questions and encourage you to learn more about scorekeeping.Â
“Backward K’s and 6-4-3 double plays: Why baseball fans should keep score”(pdf) is a modified version of a piece I originally wrote for the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association website last year. It is also the first published example of our new ‘full article’ format that you will be seeing more of over the rest of this year and beyond.Â
If the article prompts any queries, please feel free to ask questions via the comments box below.
After a successful and very enjoyable 2008 at BGB, we have been working on lots of new features and ideas to improve the site even further in 2009. So many in fact that it’s taken a whole month before I’ve had a proper chance to mention it. Â
Some of these will already be apparent (the use of other platforms such as Twitter, the launch of ‘seasons’ dedicated to a specific topic) and another will make its debut tomorrow. Continue reading