Any here read this book? Personally I think it’s a classic. But I wonder are it’s principles as applicable to other sports and could they apply to sports with very small and unreliable statistical samples like hurling.
read it, no sport in the world has the amount of statistics which baseball has so i dont think the system would transfer too easily.
Whats Jobas ERA for the year? Get me Jobas stats.
True and it was some variant of the theory that saw Brian Laws go to Burnley last year. And that worked well…
Still I have the feeling that a lot more could be done on the statistical analysis of hurling ( other than " it’s Donals 96th championship game today"), For example and to try to apply a Moneyball point , you’ll often be told that a back kept his man scorelless. But that may have nothing to do with the back. In the 2003 Munster final Ken McGrath hit 7 wides from great positions his marker had a disaster in reality but it never got on the radar because McGrath didn’t manage to score.
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True and it was some variant of the theory that saw Brian Laws go to Burnley last year. And that worked well…
Still I have the feeling that a lot more could be done on the statistical analysis of hurling ( other than " it’s Donals 96th championship game today"), For example and to try to apply a Moneyball point , you’ll often be told that a back kept his man scorelless. But that may have nothing to do with the back. In the 2003 Munster final Ken McGrath hit 7 wides from great positions his marker had a disaster in reality but it never got on the radar because McGrath didn’t manage to score.
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Have you seen the “An Moiltor” ratings system for hurling?
Hurling isn’t a sport so stats have no bearing on it.
:rolleyes:
I have and they are definitely a first step in the right direction. But they are a little simplistic too. In nearly every case with An Moltoir the man with the most plays and therefore by implication the man of the match, plays at midfield or one of the half lines ( most likely the half back line). Frankly you’d expect that because that’s where most of the game is played beginning with the throw in. So telling you that some combination of the midfielders and half back lines touched the ball the most shouldn’t really be newsat all unless there is a huge discrepancy between what one set did over another.
Is economics a sport?