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From: Ruben Safir on 8 Jan 2010 20:11
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:10:32 +0000, Ruben Safir wrote:

> On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:41:45 -0800, jonathan wrote:
>
> DG (defensive games): The number of outs made by an average fielder at
> his position given the exact distribution of balls in play for that
> player divided by the number of outs an average player at that position
> makes per game.
>
> I think they need to take the SAT on Word Problems ;)
>
> The number of Outs
>
> (nOuts)
>
>
> made by an average fielder
>
> (NOuts*pAve)
>
> at his position (uh OK - thinking about this in purely mathematical
> terms the position doesn't really matter)
>
>
> (NOuts*pAve)*Kpos
>
>
> giving the exact distribution of balls in play for that player...
>
> Now here is the trouble. You can't talk about average players and then
> individual players in the same mathematical term. It make the sentence
> not logical or provable. Are we talking about an Average (the average
> of players) or the individual player being measured?
>
>
>
> divided by the number of outs of average player at that position
>
>
>
> (NOuts*pAve)*Kpos
> __________________
> (Nouts*pAve)*kpos
>
>
>
> per game.
>
>
>
> That reduces to
>
> 1/games
>
>
>
> mathmatically....



of 1*games -depending on how you read it.

Ruben
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