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September 5, 2008

Baseball stats guru needed to accurately evaluate some football stats

Baseball stats guru needed to accurately evaluate some football stats A few weeks ago I watched my hero Bill James on “60 Minutes.” James, in case you don’t know, is the inventor of SABRmetrics, a way of applying stats in new and revolutionary ways to baseball. His ideas reportedly helped the Red Sox win a…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 5, 2008

REBELS:Secondary’s effort a primary concern

REBELS:Secondary’s effort a primary concern OXFORD – It wasn’t Stephen King or Tom Clancy, but it might just as well have been as far as Kendrick Lewis was concerned. Lewis locked his eyes, turned his hips and ran. He knew where the football was going, because he’d read Memphis quarterback Will Hudgens like a paperback…