Baseball stats

[99goals]

Do they ruin on enhance the game for you baseball heads out there..
For me it seems to ruin it a bit.. I mean I love stats but prefer to keep it out of my enjoyment of the game..

opinions?

 

[canucksfreak19]

Do they ruin on enhance the game for you baseball heads out there..
For me it seems to ruin it a bit.. I mean I love stats but prefer to keep it out of my enjoyment of the game..

opinions?

I admit that I am a bit of a sabermetrics geek. I like looking beyond the "traditional numbers" to really gauge a players value. Long live WAR (wins above replacement)!

Baseball is the only sport where these advanced statistics actually can give someone a more in-depth appreciation for things.

I remember I was hopeful, but skeptical of the Jays trade for R.A. Dickey given his track record at the bandbox that is the Rogers Center.

It was born out that his fly ball percentage shot through the roof, along with his homers allowed total, and his E.R.A.

 

[99goals]

Anyone else have an opinion?

 

[JTMcCool]

Stats enhance my enjoyment of the game. But I'm a nerd.

 

[saskatchewan197]

I love stats , but the saber metric stats although interesting are as variable as the old standby's when it comes to players values. At least in my opinion.

 

[bonnev659]

i love stats which is why i love baseball and watching teams playing the %'s when it comes to the shifts love it

 

[TADontAsk]

Interesting topic. I'm a huge stat guy - I've got my degrees in statistics - and sometimes I actually miss the days before I knew anything about sabermetrics. The game just felt that much simpler. Today, I'll watch a game and I imagine the chance of every possible outcome and then how each outcome affects the probability of winning the game.

I remember getting the 1992 Strat-O-Matic set for my birthday, and thinking that Mike Moore was a great pitcher because he led the 1992 A's with 17 wins. Now I look at the 90 ERA+, 1.489 WHIP, 1.14 K:BB ratio and just above average WAR and think "Ok... nevermind"

It definitely has a place, a large place, but like a lot of things in life it needs to be balanced with something else. Sometimes I wish I could just watch a game with my stats mind off.