Posts Tagged ‘top 10’

Linear Runs Created

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 by Prof. Nerdtron 3000

(updated to reflect Abreu and Dunn’s signings)

It turns out a simple linear model can explain team run scoring a little better than OPS.  What’s nice about this approach is that by using this method to rank players, we’re also directly seeing how players contributed to their respective teams.  So, who were the leaders last year?

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