What are the pillars of modern baseball statistics?

[25 Nuggets]

20 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

It's kind of funny actually, how big the variances are

Orioles +49  62-38

Cubs +41  48-51

Cursory look

Orioles - 10 wins by 5 runs or more, 21 losses by 3 runs or less

Cubs - 23 wins by 5 runs or more, 31 losses by 3 runs or less

[DrungoHazewood]

15 hours ago, Baltimorecuse said:

The Oriole's stats do not support their record.  

The Orioles runs scored and allowed suggest that their true talent in a sequencing and leverage-neutral context would be maybe seven games worse, and that it's unlikely that they'll continue to exceeded their Pythag indefinitely. But that doesn't mean they are predestined to regress at any moment.

[DrungoHazewood]

16 hours ago, NCRaven said:

Didn't he play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy?

Oof, he may be a worse actor than MLB pitcher. And that's saying something.

[Greg Pappas]

18 hours ago, Just Regular said:

I don't understand how we're on Page 5 without The Will to Win having been mentioned.

Awesome!

[foxfield]

One of the most infallible ways to judge a baseball player, is that they gotta know their cliches.

I mean you can tell who has studied them, who knows them.

I mean last nights loss was a good time to break out this one:

"We gotta play it one day at a time"

[Greg Pappas]

Since I posted this back in July, some new sites and stats have come up. 

I'm super confident these stat heads will come together very soon, hash it all out and tell us which is best. 

Any day now... ... ... ...