Where is the best place to learn about sabermetrics? I know a little about the subject, but I really want to expand my knowledge. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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JasonM
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Fangraphs had a really good series on beginner sabermetrics.
The sabermetrics blog on here is pretty good as well.
Heres a good beginners primer: http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~albert/papers/saber.html
Most of the stuff you’ll pick up as you go along.
Part of it too is knowing what you want to do. If you just want to understand what people mean when they say something like: Yuni’s BABIP was low last season but his LD% was right on, so we would expect regression to the mean and an increase in WAR though that doesn’t help his bad +/-. Then you can probably just use fangraphs glossary.
But if you actually want to calculate your own stuff then check out sites like Baseball Prospectus, baseball-reference and probably some other sites I’m spacing on.
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There are a lot of good links in the comments of this fanpost
http://www.royalsreview.com/2010/3/5/1358354/place-to-ask-potentially-stupid
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by Scott McKinney on Apr 13, 2010 7:07 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
That would be the best place to start.
and ask any specific questions. Most here will try to help to answer.
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Apr 13, 2010 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Tons of great primers
here’s a good one that incorporates a number of them. Perhaps start with the section on “sabermetric principles,” although this also contains primers on a lot of new stats
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