Curated by Simba the Wonder Chimp
Dogs prefer our new formula by 2-1/2:1!
A lot of baseball blogs have gotten into a habit that irritates me. One of stats getting new importance is the ratio of a pitcher's strikeouts to walks. But this gets reported as, for example, "a strikeout to walk ratio of 137/86."That's not the ratio, or not a useful ratio, because it's not calibrated to be compared with other numbers. That's just the totals with a line between them. Why not just say "137 Ks and 86 BBs"? Or do the math and say a K/BB ratio of 1.59?
I often see constructions along the lines of "Three times less whatever!" Can you be multiple times less of something? That makes no sense to me. A may have three times more of something that B, but B doesn't have three times less of something than A--right?
Well, the NY Times says I'm being picky: http://nyti.ms/67ArGU
I think the Times has 35 times less credibility.
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