Great Ideas – Fansmanship https://www.fansmanship.com For the fans by the fans Fri, 12 Mar 2021 03:58:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.29 For the fans by the fans Great Ideas – Fansmanship fansmanship.com For the fans by the fans Great Ideas – Fansmanship http://www.fansmanship.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Favicon1400x1400-1.jpg https://www.fansmanship.com San Luis Obispo, CA Weekly-ish Great Ideas in Baseball Series 2/2 – Stat Geek Night https://www.fansmanship.com/great-ideas-in-baseball-series-22-stat-geek-night/ https://www.fansmanship.com/great-ideas-in-baseball-series-22-stat-geek-night/#respond Sun, 23 Aug 2015 01:38:17 +0000 http://www.fansmanship.com/?p=17106 Bring your pocket protector, calculator, abacus, or computer, we’re going to re-frame statistics in baseball, at least for a night. Stat Geek Night — or whatever you want to call it — would be great on so many levels. Here’s the premise: for just one night, statistics at Dodger Stadium would be shown not in […]]]>

Bring your pocket protector, calculator, abacus, or computer, we’re going to re-frame statistics in baseball, at least for a night. Stat Geek Night — or whatever you want to call it — would be great on so many levels.

Here’s the premise: for just one night, statistics at Dodger Stadium would be shown not in home runs and RBI’s, pitcher wins or ERA. Instead, the scoreboard will prominently display OPS, WRC+, WHIP, FIP, XFIP, and WAR.

Here’s my thinking. Over a week ago, Buster Olney fired this tweet off.

Olney’s defense for not using stats like WAR and other advanced stats is that the readers don’t understand it.

Dustin Nosler, co-host of the Dugout Blues podcast and former guest on the Fansmanship Podcast responded and basically won the Internet for that night.

But I digress. The idea here is for a baseball team who embraces all information available to advance the conversation about the game of baseball through direct education of people who consume the game.

Pamphlets could be handed out. Apps could be advertised. Baseball-Reference.com and Fangraphs.com could sponsor the night.

I’m telling you, it would be a hit. And it would be a public service.

What do you think? Is it a good idea?

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