Two points: (i) the beauty of that curve is why people study sabermetrics in the first place; (ii) do you suppose Rickey Henderson is an outlier? He's that first dot.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Like a stats textbook
The scatterplot below shows (from the Lahman Baseball Database) the numbers of career stolen bases for all of the 16,500+ players in the database, which tracks statistics for seasons through 2006. The career totals are sorted in descending order.
Two points: (i) the beauty of that curve is why people study sabermetrics in the first place; (ii) do you suppose Rickey Henderson is an outlier? He's that first dot.
Two points: (i) the beauty of that curve is why people study sabermetrics in the first place; (ii) do you suppose Rickey Henderson is an outlier? He's that first dot.
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