
Effectively Wild Episode 1867: Defining Fun
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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How Do You Communicate a Box Score?
There's standing tradition in baseball commentating of relying on small, simple data to hipe up possible outcomes. How can it matter if team a has historically been good against team b? Tem a and team b usually don't have the same line ups, date o day, much less over years. The real answer to this is to not give tiny, yer batter match up results,. because it isany but you still needit for a single game. But otherwise, like you should just, you know, do probabilities that shoha font of the screen.
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