August, 2000 Committee News Neal Traven, Committee Co-Chair
By the Numbers Volume 10, Number 3 The Newsletter of the SABR Statistical Analysis Committee August, 2000 Committee News Neal Traven, Committee Co-Chair Greetings, fellow SAC members! I have quite a bit to report to Specialist: The Evolution of the Relief Pitcher, and Dick you this time around. I’ll offer a short wrap-up of the 30th annual Thompson—Joe Pinder: Baseball’s Greatest Hero. SABR National Convention, recently-received information about the future SABR publication I touched on briefly in the last issue In addition, I’d consider six presentations by non-members of the of BTN, a request for assistance from another SABR committee, SAC to be statistical in nature, or at least in intent. They include: and more. Ronald Cox & Daniel Skidmore-Hess—Baseball Competitiveness in the Free Agent Era, Jonathan Dunkle—The Convention report Closer: The Impotance of Grooming, Stephen Grimble—Setting the Record Straight: Baseball’s Greatest Batters, Ron Seltser— Baker Bowl in the 1930s, Stan Slater—Hits: A Misleading This year’s meeting in West Palm Beach was very poorly Statistic, Ted Turocy—A Strategic Analysis of Stealing Bases: attended. The final count barely crept over 300, far below the Game Theory at the Ballpark. norm of 450 or so. Maybe it was anticipation/fear of hot and humid weather (yes, it was hot, but not beastly) or the significant Approximately half a dozen posters were displayed during the distance to the convention. nearest major Unfortunately, neither league ballpark titles nor presenters (Pro Player In this issue were listed in the Stadium wasn’t convention program.
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