New Fangled Advance Stats

Henry chadwick was one of the fathers of baseball, as is often cited. In 18 68 he came up with the idea of counting how many times a batter gets on base on clean hits. The only correct estimate of a batsman's skill in a match would be the score of the number of times he makes his firstbase on clean hits - and not the number of bases he makes on such hits. So if the estimate of batting had been correct, the skilful player would have been credited with having made his base five times on clean hits, while the poor player would have scored but one. He wasn't always right about statistics, but he put a lot of thought into