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  1. CubinNY
    That was a good hustle dubble
  2. CubinNY
    Swanson needs to not be useless at the plate.
  3. CubinNY
    I’ve been in that LF position before. It’s awful
  4. CubinNY
    In life all things are relative. I like that Ian is starting to hit line drives.
  5. CubinNY
    You are missing the root measure. It does not matter if they are normalizing the numbers. The numbers are ordinal. It's the scale. The. Scale. Is. Ordinal. 1. People are now freaking out about a 45 FV vs a 40 FV 2. It's still ordinal so it's someone's opinion. Here is the thing. Those people who are doing the rankings are normally very good at what they are doing or else they would not be doing it. But it's based on their judgment, which is better than mine or most people outside of baseball. But then taking a judgment and hocus pocusing the judgments into numbers doesn't not magically make them better than what they are. It's an organizational system for ranking prospects according to performance and projectability. But, it's often wrong and there are inherent problems associated with distilling attributes into a ratio-type measure. BTW> The 20-80 scale was started by Branch Rickey. They took that scale and made standard deviations based on each 10 points. Edit: Also, it's a no no in science to use standard deviations with ordinal data.
  6. CubinNY
    Its fine, but it's no different than saying this guy is better than that guy based on my professional judgment. I think you look at them in rather large boxes. Like all the guys who are 50 are likely going to be better than all the guys at 40, but how much? who know? If they think a guy is a 55 FV they are probably basing it on some amount of performance and projectability. That it.
  7. CubinNY
    I just did. the 80-20 scale that scouts use is an ordinal measure. Some scout says this guy has a 60 hit tool. Another guy has a 50 hit tool. The guy with the 60 hit tool is not 10 hit tools better. The scout thinks he's better based on his professional judgment. Fine. But it's based on order not on any real objective measure. Then they take all those and condense them into one number (which is even worse) because the number obscures the real attributes the player may have and rank orders them. The fact that numbers are used is irrelevant. There I'm done with this.
  8. CubinNY
    It's pseudoscience masquerading as science.
  9. CubinNY
    I know what they measure.
  10. CubinNY
    Well, you're wrong. A player who is a 45 FV is not 5 FVs better than a player with a 40 FV. It's just nonsense. it's based on a scouting scale for all attributes and condensed into one number that they think a player will get to.
  11. CubinNY
    Narrator voice: The cubs were not able to turn that corner.
  12. CubinNY
    FV are ordinal ranking measures like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. I wouldn't get too hung up on them. They are at best, an approximation of what scouts project.
  13. CubinNY
    lol.
  14. CubinNY
    Merry-Go-Round music time
  15. CubinNY
    Jamo doesn’t have good command tonight
  16. CubinNY
    I love Chris but he’s not a major league 3rd baseman
  17. CubinNY
    They’re hitting tonight😉
  18. CubinNY
    Great start!
  19. CubinNY
    Not really NBA but WNBA related. I feel bad for Catlin Clark. She's getting the Jordan treatment when he broke into the league. Now all the right-wingers are making it about race. And of course the Black commentators are trying to say something different, which makes it more about race. I'm sure she didn't sign up for this. I hope she's getting mental health support. The issue is much bigger than her but now she's in it.
  20. CubinNY
    lol, Which one has a proven track record in MLB for hitting dongs at a prodigious pace in a park not suited for it, and which one is a 27 year old career minor leaguer who can't hit in MLB? Some of this nonsense is laughable.
  21. CubinNY
    They look at Ballesteros and see a bad-bodied kid without a position. A player like that rarely makes it. I'm not saying I agree with the belief.
  22. CubinNY
    I went to bed when they were down 5-0 figuring that the Sox would find a way to lose. Happy for the win. Cubs are the tallest dwarf tonight.
  23. CubinNY
    Why is Wrigley so empty?
  24. CubinNY
    So much for a clean game
  25. CubinNY
    How is it that the Marlins always seem to find these guys?
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