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Dan Szymborski

9:28

Nobody's Bo.

Lunar verLander

9:28

I will say, for all his faults, Joe Buck is not TERRIBLE for someone who mainly does NFL

Dan Szymborski

9:28

I seldom *hate* Buck. I just never really actively *like* Buck.

The Hamburglar

9:28

Whose the best play by play announcer in the sport?

Ben Clemens

9:29

My vote is for Gary Cohen, but Benetti is right there.

Audrey Stark

9:29

OH do we have to relive the 2014 NLDS? It pains me.

9:30

THERE IS A MAN WITH A BANJO!

LLW902

9:30

"the coliseum has been described as brutalist" wrong "but the rays have really been the brutalists tonight" also wrong. stay in your lane, jocks

Audrey Stark

9:30

I am here for Banjo Man. Banjo Man for MVP.

Ben Clemens

9:30

#sticktosports

9:31

I'd watch exactly one architecture-focused baseball broadcast.

Audrey Stark

9:31

IDK who called that banjo a ukelele but that's, um ... That's ... There's a lot to unpack there.

Matt

9:31

Is there a way to index WPA per opportunity? Would that make it a more useful metric?

Dan Szymborski

9:31

I'm a sucker for Orsillo.

Ben Clemens

9:31

I actually think WPA/LI is undervalued as a metric.

There really are situations where you can change approach in a meaningful way that aren't completely captured by the pure context neutral stuff.

9:32

But WPA isn't quite right either, because which situations you happen to bat in are obviously not that useful either.

Derek

9:32

Ian Eagle is good!

CamdenWarehouse

9:32

Win Probability Added per Long Island?

Trent

9:32

So which of these poor teams will get a new stadium first?

Ben Clemens

9:32

WPA/leverage index

Matt

9:33

Never seen WPA/LI. But...wouldn't a high WPA in low leverage spots come out significantly better than high WPA in high leverage?

Dan Szymborski

9:33

The Marlins need a new stadium, you can't expect them to spend when they're playing somewhere that's YEARS old!

Ben Clemens

9:33

Yeah but imagine how good you have to be in low leverage spots to effect a large change in WPA.

Dan Szymborski

9:33

I agree on WPA/LI

Ben Clemens

9:34

Like driving in a runner from third with less than two outs is legitimately valuable to baseball teams

Dan Szymborski

9:34

I just don't want MLB to expand to 32 teams because I'm positive they're going to go eight four-team divisions.

Jackson

9:34

How do you pronounce WPA/LI

Dan Szymborski

9:34

Wapally.

Ben Clemens

9:34

"woe-bacon"

Matt

9:34

Ok, good point. I wasn't thinking about how WPA include LI to an extent and thus moves in a linear relation.

Trent

9:34

What is the best stat to measure the effectiveness of a bullpen?

Dan Szymborski

9:34

MOXIE

Ben Clemens

9:34

Wins

Dan Szymborski

9:35

(pronounced mox-bacon)

Ben Clemens

9:35

Secondarily, grit.

Dan Szymborski

9:35

xGrit

The Hamburglar

9:35

Facial hair

Dan Szymborski

9:35

Beard+

Audrey Stark

9:35

Brebbia wins in Beard+

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