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Walking the Walk Part II: Pitching and Defense

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 by Prof. Nerdtron 3000

A baseball team has two jobs.  One is to score runs, and the other is prevent runs.  If we look at how teams score and prevent runs, then we can measure player’s values directly in the runs they contribute.  Nerdbaseball has a model for run scoring, now we need a model for run prevention.

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