I'm using this blog to describe an experimental approach I'm developing to measure the consistency from one season to the next of major league baseball players. You may know me as an author on the Baseball-Reference Blog where I have been contributing stats posts for more than two years.
My qualifications for developing this new stat are somewhat questionable--heh. I've been a baseball fan for a long time and I have an advanced engineering degree. I've even taken a graduate-level statistics & probability class. In reality, though, I'm not much more than a run-of-the-mill above average intellect and I'm light years behind most people with even mild sabermetric tendencies.
However, these shortcomings are why I'm using this blog as a public forum for development of the stat. I guess I could instead have attempted to develop the system entirely in private and then simply unveiled it. But I think I will need the help of some smarter people out there which is why I'm opening it up for public debate at a fairly early stage. I'm looking forward to the debate. Please don't be shy about commenting on any posts and telling me why whatever I've done might be wrong!
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