Sabermetrics/Thesis Statement

[Sabermetrician]

I'm doing a research paper for school on Sabermetrics and the importance of them and how they've helped certain teams compete with high spending teams. That said, do you have any other ideas that I could write about? I need to stay way from factual stuff, ex. What is Win Shares, Park Effects, etc... I need to have a thesis statement done by tomorrow and I don't have a whole lot of things that I could use in an essay map.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

http://www.sabr.org

[Sabermetrician]

I've been there before and I really didn't find a whole lot of stuff that would be helpful in my paper.

[Sabermetrician]

The popularity of Sabermetrics continue to grow at a near exponential rate, and since the publication of "Win Shares" and "Moneyball", there has been a change in the philosophy of major league front offices that has resulted in an increase in the ability of small market teams to compete and field profitable teams. The evolution of Sabermetrics (three main points here)...

[Sabermetrician]

The popularity of Sabermetrics continue to grow at a near exponential rate, and since the publication of "Win Shares" and "Moneyball", there has been a change in the philosophy of major league front offices that has resulted in an increase in the ability of small market teams to compete and field profitable teams. The evolution of Sabermetrics have helped not only small market teams compete (the Billy Beane era in Oakland and the never-ending story of the Atlanta Braves) at a playoff-calibre level, but also directly put an end to the World Series curse in Boston in 2004.

[Careless]

I'I need to have a thesis statement done by tomorrow and I don't have a whole lot of things that I could use in an essay map.

:lol:

[RynoRules]

The popularity of Sabermetrics continue to grow at a near exponential rate, and since the publication of "Win Shares" and "Moneyball", there has been a change in the philosophy of major league front offices that has resulted in an increase in the ability of small market teams to compete and field profitable teams. The evolution of Sabermetrics have helped not only small market teams compete (the Billy Beane era in Oakland and the never-ending story of the Atlanta Braves) at a playoff-calibre level, but also directly put an end to the World Series curse in Boston in 2004.

 

Careful. Hope you can prove that. Might think about this instead:

"Played a major role in putting an end to the 'Curse of the Bambino' in Boston."

[TheDude]

You could talk about how the Sabremetric approach leads to regular season success, but post-season mediocrity :).

[Sabermetrician]

You could talk about how the Sabremetric approach leads to regular season success, but post-season mediocrity :).

 

I was going to reply:

 

"Or maybe how the Cubs non-Sabermetric approach leads to both regular season and post-season mediocrity"

 

But then I figured,

 

You have to be good in the regular season to actually be set up to fail in the postseason.

[CubfaninCA]

Just curious, what class is this for??

 

 

Pedro & Schilling had a lot to do w/ ending Boston's curse.

[Sabermetrician]

It's called Advanced Composition, a great writing course to prepare to college, we wrote 5 papers first semester and then here in second semester we're concentrating on one major research paper, and then (in my case) proving why or why not it's been successful. I choose Sabermetrics because I'm interested in them but I didn't understand all the different stats to the level that I wanted to.

[RynoRules]

Just curious, what class is this for??

 

 

Pedro & Schilling had a lot to do w/ ending Boston's curse.

 

Exactly. That's why I'd be careful assigning all the credit to sabermetrics. That's not to say that it wasn't a big help, but I'd be wary of absolutes...in anything...