Dugout Study Hall - Rick Mahieu (@PARSlist), creator of PARS, joins expert layman Matt Goodwin (@TheCorkedMatt) and fake baseball economist Alexander Chase (@chase_rate) to talk about his creation, his connection with baseball, and a whole bunch of prospects. We also get his take on the one-game Wild Card play-in.
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Timestamps: What will Alexander complain about next? (01:25) Welcome Rick Mahieu (03:48) What does baseball mean to Rick? (06:30) When did start making player predictions? (10:20) The story of PARS (12:55) Numbers of the Week: Rick’s favorite baseball stat/number (16:18) How does PARS work a little bit differently? (21:06) Ranker and rater (24:08) PARS and Juan Yepez (25:52) PARS Scale (31:47) How do you project really young players? (38:18) The players (40:47) Some outliers based on PARS (46:43) Projection system flaws (52:10) Pass/Fail: One-game play-in (58:46)
Note: Episode recorded on 10/6.