But the baseball stats the on-base percentage, wins above replacement, and all those other high-concept figures are pointless if they simply verify empirically what the old-timers already intuit by chewing on their chaw.
Industry heavyweights Topps and Upper Deck have tried similar initiatives during the past few years ("Topps Town, " an online competition featuring baseball card stats).
Since 1988, teams leading after eight innings have won at a .951 clip, according to Baseball-Reference.com and STATS Inc.
According to Stats LLC, the oldest teams in baseball were the 2005 Yankees at 32.2 years old (including every player to play a game that year, with their ages as of July 1).
The youngest roster in the majors, checking in with an average age of 27 years, 224 days, beat the oldest in baseball at 31 years, 155 days, according to STATS, for just the second time in 10 matchups all-time.
Louis on Aug. 19 last year, according to STATS. But it wasn't the only baseball marathon of the night.
Panelists hearing the cases were notorious for their lack of baseball knowledge, emboldening agents and team officials to try duping them with misleading stats.
Bloomberg Sports, vying to become a leader in the sports stats database business, will be on hand to showcase its latest baseball analytics product along with its Front Office 2011 fantasy game.
In baseball, players can have escalators in their contracts based upon a limited set of stats.
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The pure stats vs. salary model doesn't work as well as it does in sports like baseball, with its individual tilt and myriad numbers (a top defensive back, for example, may not have many interceptions because opposing teams avoid throwing to his side of the field).
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