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...Fernando E. Daniels ’03, attempting to bring the mack to the comely Louisa K. Mackintosh ’04, ran around the bases in Cambridge Common, thereby working his awkward, girl-ignorant game in a surprisingly literal fashion. She took the opportunity to run a race of her own: the 40-meter dash into Radcliffe Yard, where she lost Daniels by crouching behind a bush. Commented Daniels, “I just don’t get that girl. I ran around the bases, for chrissakes.” Final thought: Daniels may have reached home base...
...Blum ’03 and Joy B. Fairfield ’03 would struggle with elements of time as well. Cabaret first debuted on Broadway in 1966, was reincarnated as a movie in 1972, and revived on Broadway by director Sam Mendes in 1998. With a loyal fan base, Cabaret challenged Blum and Fairfield to find their own creative voice while avoiding an alienation of Cabaret devotees who might view change as betrayal. “I’ve never done a show that’s been haunted by so many ghosts,” says Fairfield...
...hoping to see second and third with one out,” Morris says as Cardinals leadoff hitter Fernando Viña grounds out to shortstop, “because something comes out in Markovian theory that’s very interesting. When the third-base runner sees the ball hit on the ground to second base, he has to make an instinctive calculation whether try for home. The question is, what is the probability he will score that would justify going? If it’s greater than 7 percent”—he pauses to emphasize...
...formula was derived from a technique in academic statistics known as Markovian modeling, which he says makes it qualitatively different from any statistic a casual fan would be familiar with. RPG, Morris says, takes much of the interpretation out of statistics (different fans may value on-base percentage or RBI differently, and sabermetricians frequently assign debatable weights to statistics such as stolen bases) and says with statistical certainty how many runs per game nine of a given player would produce on average. Adjusting for annual fluctuations, RPG predicts how many runs teams actually score to a very high degree...
Morris’ RPG formula can be approximated by just three components. First is the on-base odds, or the ratio of times a player reaches base to the number of times he makes an out. Second is a statistic Morris calls batting texture, which is the average contribution relative to a single a player makes when he reaches base. Walks are worth three-quarters of a single, doubles 1.5 times as much, triples twice as much and home runs three times as much, so a player whose plate appearances resulted only in doubles and outs would have a batting...