Comments | piney61: Nerding it Hardcore!

piney61

Nerding it Hardcore!

May 15, 2008 23:00

So yeah what have I been doing all this evening you ask? Well, for one thing, I did get a phone call from someone in particular(more on that in some other time) and I did head out for about a half hour to go and do a little bit of banking. However what I've been doing is some hardcore nerding. Not just any nerding: baseball nerding ( Read more... )

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horsecrazyliza May 16 2008, 03:20:12 UTC

I so want to see that when you're done :D

Once my summer starts, I'll be baseball-nerding hardcore too. I totally plan to invent a quick and dirty way to rank hitters. I already have an idea for one, too...

piney61 May 16 2008, 04:18:35 UTC

Yeah I nerd it up during school-less times. I did this study on driving distance between MLB teams and their AAA counterparts during the end of my winter break. I also once did up an astrological look at the Red Sox players(I'm a bit of an astrology nerd at times) I even once, with a friend, constructed a team using only an 85 million budget and then put them up to the test. Mine kinda sucked, but my heart was in the right place. We used MLB contracts bloggage thingie to do it up.

What is your idea? I'm pretty curious to find out

horsecrazyliza May 16 2008, 04:33:46 UTC

I don't blame you--I nerd it up all the time, and without school to absorb some of it, I imagine it gets more intense. And ha, poor Marlinsies.

It's basically relating to the Pythagorean theorem, actually... so a 3-4-5 triangle is ole Pythagoras's dream triangle, right? Well, a .300/.400/.500 hitter is a great hitter. I was thinking I'd try and find a way to take batting average and Pythagorize it so I could find whether a player's average really reflects their OBP and SLG, and therefore overall value.

(I believe this is a moment for a Sam Fuld icon.)

meril May 16 2008, 04:07:04 UTC

Gabe Kapler was picked in the 57th round of the 1995 draft...but you probably already know that.

I'm interested in your project results.

piney61 May 16 2008, 04:19:40 UTC

Yep I got that. He's the lowest round draft pick on teh Brewers but not the lowest overall pick(that's David Riske who went 1559 overall...Kapler went 1487 overall...due to the fact that Kapler was drafted in 1995, there's a bit of a jump)

chocochrisp May 16 2008, 04:33:08 UTC

That sounds really neat! I'd like to see it...