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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 370146, member: 297"]
That's reasonable, but not where my beef comes in.
 
I find a lot of sabremetricians, for being such good statisticians, to be really dumb about how they use their stats. There's a difference between using stats as indicators of future performance vs using them to assess past performance.
 
I hate when I see statements like "Player X isn't having as good a season as his .320 batting average indicates. His BABIP is way too high and is likely to regress as the season continues." Actually, you stathead freak, Player X IS having as good a season as his .320 batting average indicates. Know how I know? Because that's what actually happened. Projected stats shouldn't diminish real achievement. It's a gross misuse of the measure, and what really pisses me off is that it's entering into award recognition.
 
I understand the value they place on stripping out contextual metrics like RBI, but that also drives me insane because that context frames the entire way that the game is won. If they want to reduce a beautiful game to strat-o-matic baseball, that just misses the point to me.
 
/End rant
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