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| Saying it's So (fill this in) |
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| Way the Black Sox Scandal is referred to by the media immediately in the aftermath of the scandal. Conveys only one set of meaning about the Black Sox scandal (negative, cheaters) |
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| Cleanliness and Contamination |
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| The original narrative the media conveyed while covering the Black Sox scandal |
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| Primary concept in Dan Nathan's book, the idea that the way we remember events throughout time changes based on certain circumstances (work on this) |
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The idea that by breaking down each play into small fragments analysts can come up with a quantitative value for each play/player in a game/season/career.
Derivatives became the inspiration for AVM systems |
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| The idea that scouts have some ability to "know" truth - and this ability is somehow mystical and all knowing. |
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| There are multiple narratives for any story. |
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| Abe Attell and Arnold Rothstein |
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| Accused of fixing the World Series, are also jewish. Accused of being "hook nosed crooks" by the press |
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| GM for the Oakland A's, pioneer for sabermetrics and quantitative player analysis |
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| The "only" clean white sock player in the whole scandal. He was college educated. Dan Nathan points to this as a reason he resisted the temptation to fix the World Series |
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| Owner of the Chicago White Sox during the scandal |
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| VP of Player Development, Billy Beane's right hand man, convinced Beane and the A's to hire AVM systems and begin using derivative quantitative analysis to start evaluating players |
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| Writer for the Chicago Herald and Examiner, ultimately uncovered the Black Sox scandal. |
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| Ultimately expelled from the game of baseball. Illiterate. Was an example of either a "criminal" or "buffoon" that was taken advantage of depending on which history of the Black Sox scandal one subscribes to. |
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| Statistician, inventor of sabermetrics, writer of Baseball Abstracts, founder of STATS Inc., and all around hero to fantasy folks everywhere. |
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| First commissioner of the MLB. Landis permanently expelled eight members of White Sox following the scandal. |
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| First Japanese born major league player, pitched for the SF Giants in 1965 |
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| Rookie of the Year, 1995. Known for his "tornado" delivery. First Japanese player in MLB after Murakami |
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| Signed with Yankees in 2000, started career in minor leagues. Most notable Taiwanese player in MLB history. |
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Analytical system with a goal to determine how much players involved in a play should be held responsible for the result, be it positive or negative. The statistics created by AVM systems are an entire derivative of regular baseball statistics.
AVM creates new statistical knowledge, can't compare cross generationally. |
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| Wildly anti-semetic newspaper owned by Henry Ford, |
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