Does Football Need More Statistics?

2. Baseball lacks identifiable superstars - The NBA has LeBron James, Steph Curry, and many others recognized just by their first name. The NFL has at least six quarterbacks famous to the world. Baseball has . . . uhh.

War is people (usually men) fighting, usually for a bit of territory or desired resource. One party wants something another party has. The leader of the first party will use whatever he can to

War can be defined as “an active struggle between competing entities. It’s truly hard to tell who is right or wrong during a war. Both sides are fighting for what they believe in and what is true to their heart. In the end there is always two things promised – destruction and death. These two objects can explain the result in every facet of war from the physical to emotional.

The hitter’s full performance is fully encompassed by the OPS statistic because of the inclusion of the slugging percentage to the formula. Winning means scoring more than the other team and a team cannot win unless they are getting on base. Therefore, the team that gets more bases has a better chance of winning, but OPS is sometimes left up to factors out of the control of players such as varying sizes of stadiums. To neutralize variables not in control of the hitter, Sabermetricians developed OPS+. The league average OPS+ will always be 100, so if a player’s OPS+ rating is 100 he is an average player. Calculating OPS+ is slightly more difficult to than OPS.

America’s pastimes are Football and Baseball, which are similar yet vastly different. Enough though Baseball and football may require some of the same talents they are also different in many ways.

War has been present throughout history and plays a major role in power, politics, and glory.

Q1. Describe the traditional "Old Guard" system of identifying and selecting baseball players. What were its primary shortcomings?

War can be defined as armed conflict between nations or states or even different groups within a nation or state. All these wars, approximately 14,000 in the past 5,000 years, take innocent civilians away from their family, home, what they know for months or even years at a time. Often times the conditions these individuals are living in while at war are far from the normal life they previously lived. Vets often see and have to do certain task that no human being should be required to do. Leaving behind a lot of mental repairing to do once back home. Once a war comes to an end, these civilians are thrown back into a culture they have been away from for months, even years with little to no direction on where to start to build their lives again.

But no pitcher will ever go up on the mound without any defense behind them (unless you’re Satchel Paige), because most pitchers won’t be striking out everyone they face (and by most, I mean all). Inevitably, some batter will make contact and put the ball in place, at which point, getting the batter out becomes the responsibility of the defense. Typically, some balls will fall in for hits, but most won’t. The percentage of the balls put in play that become hits is measured using BABIP, or Batting Average on Balls In Play (it’s also pretty fun to say). BABIP can be used to measure how good the defense is behind a pitcher, in addition to how unlucky or lucky they are. Comparing their current season figure season to their career number can let you know if a pitcher is over or under-performing. For instance, Jon Lester of the Cubs has been pitching this season with a .265 BABIP, which is significantly less than his career number of .299 – this indicates that he’s been the beneficiary of good defense and good luck while on the mound.

War: a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. War is not just a fight between two organized groups, it is a living hell where people decide if they are going to live or die. The horrors of war are manifested with great detail and imagery in All Quiet on the Western Front, “The Hollow Men”, and In the Field.

Television revenue is now big business in sports today with television networks paying large amounts of money to secure the right to broadcast sporting events. The Super Bowl (which is the championship game in the NFL) is consistently the highest rated broadcast every year, which allows the lucky network to charge ungodly amounts of money in advertising. The NFL and MLB both enjoy large television contracts although their revenue sharing plans are quite different. The NFL currently receives 2.2 billion dollars a year in television revenue, which amounts to 73 million per year per team. MLB currently receives 340 million dollars per year in television revenue, which is divided up among the teams in a formula so complicated that you need understand quantum-physics and theoretical mathematics just to gain a rudimentary understanding of the distribution structure. These numbers are interesting in that there are less football teams to televise which means that the NFL must garner obscene ratings to demand that much money. Baseball games are on almost every night on a variety of different channels and ratings can be considered dismal when placed in comparison to the NFL. I believe the main reason for the ratings difference is season length. The NFL season is so short and every game means so much that the drama level is much higher when compared to the daily rhythm of 162 baseball games where losing one or two

I have never been to a baseball game or even watched a baseball game on TV, but I can most definitely see how math is used in professional baseball to determine all those number that appear after a player's name. Baseball is more than a game it is game of mathematical numbers used to try and determine how players respond in certain situations. Teams keep all kinds of statistics on batters, such as: number of times at bat - AB, number of runs scored - R, number of hits - H, number of runs batted in - BI, number of walks - W, number of strike outs - K, and batting average - AVG. These are all used to determine the quality of a batter to be able to hit and score runs. Math statistics are also kept on the number homeruns divided by the number times

WAR, as you probably know, doesn’t think much of relief pitchers. The very best relievers in the game are generally worth +2 to +2.5 wins over a full season, or about the same as an average everyday player. This has caused quite a few people to state that WAR doesn’t work for relievers, because the results of the metric don’t match what they believe to be true about relief pitcher value. I think it works just fine.

Sabermetrics- based player evaluation “ is the empirical analysis of baseball statistics that measure game activity.” (Sabermetrics, 2017) The Sabermetric-based player is shocked because of change, and because this change is different from the book which they relied on for years. Billy Beane challenged them and was able to prove professional intuitions are not reliable for statistical evidence. Billy proved himself by using statistical analysis to measure the evaluation in baseball by finding the average number of wins.

War is a very horrible and destructive form of conflict, it is a horrific approach to a disagreement and usually leads to many casualties, there have been many forms of war over the past years, war is usually not a good way to go about disagreements but it can at the same time be very effective. Medieval war is one war that represented brutality and gore. Modern warfare is much different due to all the new technology like tanks, bombs and guns. The impact that war has on society is usually very devastating. These are the topics that I will go into further detail about.