Spring training - as meaningless as most think?
Sky Andrecheck has an article on SI about how there is a small but real correlation between performance in ST and performance in the real deal. A team that tears it up in spring training might be worth about 3 wins more over the full season than predicted. Take a look.
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If had tried to bring a .21 r-squared value into my stats class
I would have been laughed out of the room. That’s extremely low
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 24, 2010 8:24 AM MST reply actions
Yeah, a .21 r-squared is really too low to be significant.
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by Jeff Aberle on Feb 24, 2010 10:50 AM MST up reply actions
But
that’s derived from a correlation of .46. That’s nothing to sneeze at
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