I Resurrected a Dead Relief Pitcher Stat (Part One: A Re-Introduction to Goose Eggs and gWAR)
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In April 2017, Nate Silver of the poll analysis, politics, economics, and occasional sports blogging wing of the Disney World Empire known as FiveThirtyEight, published an article on the creation of a new baseball stat called the Goose Egg. The Goose Egg serves the purpose of being a replacement for the outdated “save” stat, which had long been determined to be the benchmark for reliever success, and the statistical basis for the “closer” role.
I Resurrected a Dead Relief Pitcher Stat (Part One: A Re-Introduction to Goose Eggs and gWAR)
I Resurrected a Dead Relief Pitcher Stat…
I Resurrected a Dead Relief Pitcher Stat (Part One: A Re-Introduction to Goose Eggs and gWAR)
In April 2017, Nate Silver of the poll analysis, politics, economics, and occasional sports blogging wing of the Disney World Empire known as FiveThirtyEight, published an article on the creation of a new baseball stat called the Goose Egg. The Goose Egg serves the purpose of being a replacement for the outdated “save” stat, which had long been determined to be the benchmark for reliever success, and the statistical basis for the “closer” role.