{"id":2438,"date":"2009-04-04T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:32:41","slug":"full-article-how-healthy-is-the-national-baseball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2438","title":{"rendered":"Full article: How healthy is the National Baseball League?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5838\" title=\"articles\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/articles.gif\" alt=\"articles\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/>Summary<br \/>\n<\/strong>In this article I\u00c2\u00a0produce a formula that summarizes various factors that I feel represent the &#8220;health&#8221; of a league: forfeit frequency, blowout frequency, and typical run difference. I then present values for the top tier in Britain between 2003 and 2008 and examine whether health in one\u00c2\u00a0season is related to player retention\u00c2\u00a0during the next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Access the PDF: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcobb.org.uk\/articles\/League_health_03-08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Please leave comments on the article below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In this article I\u00c2\u00a0produce a formula that summarizes various factors that I feel represent the &#8220;health&#8221; of a league: forfeit frequency, blowout frequency, and typical run difference. I then present values for the top tier in Britain between 2003 and 2008 and examine whether health in one\u00c2\u00a0season is related to player retention\u00c2\u00a0during the next. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[91,556,89],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2","tag-articles","tag-british-baseball","tag-nbl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15386,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}