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Cockcroft: Stats you might not know

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Friday, November 16, 2007

I've got a sim baseball draft coming up on Friday night. Go ahead, laugh, I'm taking the statistical angle of our game to its utmost geek-ery. I've heard the taunts before, I'm used to it. Still, there's a lot you can stand to gain, research-wise, from the practice of analyzing the full gamut of baseball statistics. In sim, how a hitter fared in a certain ballpark, against left-handers and right-handers, how he fielded, and how effectively he ran the bases are all important. They might seem li ...

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