http://marlinmaniac.com/2009/06/23/payrolls-dont-help-winning/ A Miami Marlins Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://marlinmaniac.com/2009/06/23/payrolls-dont-help-winning/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Marginal dollar values per run and first-order win, Pt. 1 | Marlin Maniac | A Florida Marlins Blog Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:19:47 +0000 http://marlinmaniac.com/?p=186#comment-7 [...] Yesterday I talked about payroll being significant in baseball. I know, that should be obvious. But as I did the quickie chart on Word and tried to manipulate the dimensions on Wordpress’ HTML editor, I thought about how wildly inaccurate taking a win-loss record and measuring the marginal wins over some replacement level team probably was. I knew of course about how run differential, the number of runs a team scores and allows, is a much better indicator of a team’s quality than their actual win-loss record, as bullpen quality and pure luck can affect wins and losses in a big way. [...] [...] Yesterday I talked about payroll being significant in baseball. I know, that should be obvious. But as I did the quickie chart on Word and tried to manipulate the dimensions on WordPress’ HTML editor, I thought about how wildly inaccurate taking a win-loss record and measuring the marginal wins over some replacement level team probably was. I knew of course about how run differential, the number of runs a team scores and allows, is a much better indicator of a team’s quality than their actual win-loss record, as bullpen quality and pure luck can affect wins and losses in a big way. [...]

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