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Old 06-22-2005, 03:10 AM   #174 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Johnny Slick
The only use of it I see is to compare pitchers to see who was better over the course of their career. Obviously WARP3 does a better job, but one does not always have access to WARP3 and what is more, one does not always have the ability to explain it to the uninitiated.
And don't you realize that's why statheads hate W-L numbers.

W-L numbers are like calculators, and advanced stats are like Excel.

If I don't have Excel, of course I'd have to settle for calculators. However, when we have both, listening someone keep talking about using calculators is really annoying when you can do a lot more powerful stuff with the easily-available Excel. It's not really statheads' fault that not everyone knows how to use Excel.
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