{"id":8,"date":"2007-09-18T18:51:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T01:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-09-26T18:19:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T01:19:56","slug":"curve-ball-baseball-statistics-and-the-role-of-chance-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Curve-Ball-Baseball-Statistics-Chance\/dp\/038700193X\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41TCRDQJSML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t expect it, but this book starts out with a simple analysis of All-Star Baseball, APBA, SOM &#038; Sports Illustrated Baseball! Interesting point about the SOM method of splitting the rolls: the batter&#8217;s ability is purely additive, that is, there&#8217;s no direct interaction with the pitcher. You can get some of that with pitcher symbols in TPB, of course.<\/p>\n<p><i>More to come&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t expect it, but this book starts out with a simple analysis of All-Star Baseball, APBA, SOM &#038; Sports Illustrated Baseball! Interesting point about the SOM method of splitting the rolls: the batter&#8217;s ability is purely additive, that is, there&#8217;s no direct interaction with the pitcher. You can get some of that with pitcher symbols &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}