age Stories - Beyond the Box Score
BZS Versus Age, 2007-08 to 2010-11
Having spent quite a bit of time putting together Balanced Zone Shift and looking at the different types of players that have done well by the metric, there is at least one more thing that I want to check out. Since most player metrics, like players' careers, have a certain "peak" age, I want to...
Graph of the Day: Average Age per Year for Batters and Pitchers
For some other work I plan on completing shortly, I needed the average of players for a given season. Though I only need the data for a few seasons, I went ahead and ran the data back until 1900. The data shows nice drops in age for WWI (1914 to 1918) and WW II and subsequent jumps in age after...
1983 Oilers vs. 2008 Penguins
The most irritating comparison this playoff year, in my humble opinion, has been that of the current edition of the Pittsburgh Penguins to the 1983 Edmonton Oilers.The comparison is wrong.What I have done is ignored all the generous assumptions regarding talent level, and simply focused on age....
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