Meeting 8: January 8, 2019 - QMIND-Team/Sabermetrics GitHub Wiki

Updates on the break

• The refactor
• The Marcel Model

Research on the middle step

• Do we even need to find runs?
  • Along with outs, its the currency of baseball
  • Its really the only thing that matters in deciding wins
  • Its difficult to predict
  • A win 2-0 is worth the same as a win 10-0
  • Is run differential a better metric?
  • Other Y variables we can use?
• WAR and RAR
  • How they work
  • Figuring out the replacement level
  • Predicting WAR/RAR vs calculating it with predicted stats
  • Converting to Runs
  • Are these stats valuable
• wRAA
  • How it works
  • How it connects to RAR and wOBA
  • Converting to Runs
• VORP
  • Calculation
  • Relation to Runs and conversion
• Other research?

Naming conventions

• Either decide on them now or assign someone to make a list of them and enforce them