Originally posted by plawrence:
I don't know if you're familiar with the work of Bill James. To call him a statistician would be greatly oversimplfying, but basically that's what he is.
Originally posted by YoTonyB: Calling Bill James a statistician is like calling this web site just another tribute page!
You're 1000% right, of courso, Yo.
I've been a fan of his since the first Baseball Abstract of his that I read way back in 1984.
He's a statistician in the sense that his studies and conclusions are necessarily based on statistics, but that's where the comparison between him and a statistician, who does nothing more than keep track of stats, ends.
Get in our Fantasy Baseball game. There's a link on the first page of the thread. Any questions, just ask 'em there.
