Archive for August 22nd, 2005

The Case Against Closers: Part 2

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

In the second segment of my case against closers, I’d like to present a statistic called WPA or Win Probability Added. I first read about WPA in the book Curve Ball by Jim Albert and Jay Bennett. It struck me then as one of the most intriguing and most ingenious methods to quantitatively […]

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