sidney lanier wrote:Kerb Hohl wrote:"Stats are just statistical noise."
You should read Nate Silver's book, The Signal and the Noise : Why Most Predictions Fail – but Some Don't. He's a SABR guy so you might believe him when he tells you the same things I've been telling you.
I would suggest reading Charles C.W. Cooke's "Smarter Than Thou", but I'm starting to suspect that you actually wrote it.
I'd also be interested in the part where Silver says which side of the plate you hit from matters as little as you seem to think it does. You'd have to get pretty creative to find a stat that backs that up.