Description

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.

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