Ed,
In a letter, you wrote:
EG> DL> So granted.  You have taken a lot of heat from me for your insistence
EG> DL> that statistics measure a player's ability.  Well they don't.
EG>Sorry, David but I've taken heat from you because you don't understand 
hat
EG>the hell statistics means in the first place (Need I dredge up your use of
EG>some bastardized form of gobbledy-gook that you've tried to pawn off as
EG>correlation?).
EG> DL> Statistics measure a player's performance.  From a player's
EG> DL> performance certain inferences may be made as to their ability.
EG>In the case of those exotic stats, they DON'T. They simply measure how 
any
EG>balls land inside of a certain area and whether a team properly positions 
its
EG>players. They have NOTHING to do with performance OR ability. These 
umbers
EG>should clue in teams as to whether they're screwing up their positioning 
f
EG>their players or not. They should not be used to reflect anything more 
han
EG>that because they measure no more than that. They have NOTHING to do with
EG>measuring anything QUALITATIVE about a player - be it performance or 
ability.
EG> DL> Baerga's statistical measures decline it indicates a decline in
EG> DL> Baerga's performance, this year from previous years.
EG>Horse pucky, he was almost as bad the previous year. The only difference 
s
EG>that he was hitting over .300 and the team could afford to keep his glove.
EG>Face it, David, you and your other "exotic stats" buddies are dead wrong 
n
EG>the issue of DER, ZR, etc.
What you mean by that I don't know what statistics are all about is that
I don't draw the same inferences from statistics as you do.
In the case of exotic statistics, you simply mean refer to those
statistics which do not support one on your conclusions.
Happy Modeming -- David
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