tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32751664.post4928494649894855292..comments2023-09-16T09:39:54.266-06:00Comments on Oilgasm: MoneyballUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32751664.post-70208921556369762442007-08-14T10:58:00.000-06:002007-08-14T10:58:00.000-06:00I've been reading Moneyball too but I don't believ...I've been reading Moneyball too but I don't believe that hockey will make the move to "Sabermetrics" like baseball has. This is for two reasons, in my humble opinion:<BR/>1) The majority of baseball can be reduced to control of the strike zone: as a pitcher or as a hitter. That's to root of most of the statistics: on base percent, slugging average, walks, strikes, pitch count ... all have to do with the strike zone. I don't think you can reduce hockey to one MAJOR area of control.<BR/>2) Concievably in baseball, if you have the best positional players at each position, you have the best team, because, even in a defensive role, the players on the team depend on each other so little. However ... in other sports, namely hockey, team chemistry and interdependance are of the utmost importance. How can you statistically analyze those.<BR/>What Moneyball is primarily is an allergory for the search for truth. Is truth found in the mind's eye or in cold hard facts. Can we predict the future from some elaborate model? The aritist in me says, no way ... but the "scientician" in me says, of course.Hooshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241391080836981642noreply@blogger.com