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The first step in valuing player performance is figuring out which aspects of performance ought to be rewarded and how to weight them. It might be tempting to borrow from baseball’s traditional wisdom to determine which skills that players possess are most important; however, popular notions of what determines success in baseball are not necessarily so. Baseball fans tend to be capable of recalling performance statistics of their favorite players with ease, but there exists widespread innumeracy regarding their interpretation. Despite the available evidence regarding player contributions to winning, most mainstream baseball commentary judges players with antiquated notions of what constitutes good and bad performance.
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Bradbury, J. (2011). Down With The Triple-Crown: Evaluating On-Field Performance. In: Hot Stove Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6269-0_2
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