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Fun with obscure statistics! (Well, sort of.)
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Jump to Comments It would definitely shock my STT 421 professor (who gave me a 2.5 — and scheduled a midterm on St. Patrick’s Day!) that I’m a big fan of random and obscure sports statistics. I think OPS tells infinitely more about a baseball player’s productivity than regular old batting average does (ok, well maybe that statistic isn’t obscure anymore), I think the tempo-free basketball stats the Big Ten Wonk used for years are fascinating . . . and so on. So, this post from the Blue-Gray Sky definitely caught my attention a year ago.
