DeuceBaseman

So if I am racing one of my friends, and I tell him that I will beat him, he will then go slower so that my hypothesis is true? You guys are ridiculous. And Earth2Sean faggot needs to stop with all the stupid insults or get banned or something, cuz all he does is post negative stuff about me without even coming up with a decent argument. Its a study that showed results. If I did the same study and it ended up showing that it was faster to run through the bag, then none of you guys would say that its a faulty study. I'm not saying my study was 100% accurate. But it does say something.

How? I accept the fact that my study proved a lot but there could have been some possible errors. But there is no reason for me to believe that every trial I ran was false.

Some did, but a lot of them thought that it would turn out untrue.

It's just a theory of mine that I think is very unique and I am convinced it is true based on my studies. I think this discussion is a lot more civil than the past so it's ok. It's good to have this discussion as long as no one is insulting anyone else. I hope it does work though and it changes the game.

.....which is what, 90% of sliding? If your sliding into first, then avoiding a tag would be 0% of sliding unless its a bad throw because it's a force out. So it is less of an injury risk. And these guys will know that they will be sliding when the get to first, so it wont be a last second decision. Before the season starts this year, I'm gonna test it again with my players and if some get there faster by sliding then I will encourage it for them. But I'm the assistant coach so I'd have to convince the head coach.

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but that's just preposterous. Sliding is safer than running? Absolutely not. 75% of my aches and pains from playing the game came from sliding. I'm a feet first slider for the most part. I have never injured myself sliding. Maybe a little burn on my thigh or something if the ground is hard. But I have rolled my ankle numerous times running through the bag at 1st. I don't see people getting injured sliding that often unless they are sliding to avoid a tag.

Everything possible has been mentioned. And yes I am suggesting to slide all the time. I think it is less of an injury risk.

I agree with you. Umps are more likely to call a guy out sliding. In my baseball league this summer, I beat out an infield hit by sliding to first, and the ump said in a really surprised voice "safe?" He couldnt believe that I beat it out. Thats why im gonna give the ump a heads up that my players might slide into 1st so look for that.

How is there nothing to draw from my data? It shows that it's faster to slide into first. Each person got to 1st faster by sliding, over numerous trials! And feet first was faster than head first. The reason I came up with this idea is cuz I was watching baseball games on tv and whenever they showed replays of guys running to first, you can see how big that last step always is. I thought to myself that if they just slid I think they would get there quicker. But I said "no way, i was told not to slide into 1st, and I'm sure that the ground will slow you down." Those I believe are true but I think that there are also cons to running through the bag. So I tested it, and I was right.

It's called a hypothesis. Before each scientific experiment you should have a hypothesis on what you think the results will show. That is what I did, and my hypothesis was correct. It was not based on bias at all.

Maybe if you're measuring 1600 meter times, but when you're talking about fraction of second differences like sliding into first v. running through, your experiment doesn't have much value. I think it does when you have 50 total trials and only 2 times out of those 50 it came up in a different order than feet first, head first, run through. How could I consistently have timer errors where sliding is faster? When did you do this trial and who did you convince to slide into first for you dozens of times? I did this last spring, and I had 10 people each run to first 15 times.

Maybe if you're measuring 1600 meter times, but when you're talking about fraction of second differences like sliding into first v. running through, your experiment doesn't have much value. I think it does when you have 50 total trials and only 2 times out of those 50 it came up in a different order than feet first, head first, run through. How could I consistently have timer errors where sliding is faster?

Sorry i was off, I just looked back at the results. Running through was 4.425 secs, Sliding head first was 4.325 secs, and sliding feet first was 4.2 secs. So it was about .2-.3 secs faster from sliding feet to running. I'm guessing you hand-timed this? Yes, with a normal stop watch. There's def room for error. But I thought that sliding was faster before hand and I wasnt surprised with the results. I think the hand timing by me shouldnt be much of an error.

It will. I'm assuming you disagree because your little league baseball coach told you to "never slide into 1st".

I disagree. I think sliding is safer than running through the bag. I have never got injured from sliding into a bag, especially feet first. But I have gotten injured running through the bag quite a few times and have seen others as well because they land on the bag awkwardly with the side of their ankles, or they hit the side of the bag or step on the 1B foot. If you know how to slide you shouldnt get hurt.