Senior Project carried over into the weekend for me. I spent it reading the book, The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver, detailing how predictions are made and why some succeed and others don't. He had a specific chapter on baseball and its obsession with statistics, and even mentioned that he developed a baseball projection system known as PECOTA, that it utilized on a site that I frequently use, BaseballProspectus. Needless to say, I was very surprised, and tried to use it myself. Unfortunately, only subscribers of BaseballProspectus have access to PECOTA, but it is relatively cheap to purchase a month long subscription, so I plan to buy one and see how it works.
I am thrilled that you already knew of PECOTA since this was all new to me when I read the book.
ReplyDeleteFascinating stuff, right?