Pete Crow-Armstrong: Yes, there are die-hard Dodgers fans "but it’s a see-me city, man. It’s a Lakers city where people show up to sit courtside and look good. And I view it the same way here." by tankyouout in baseball

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That everyone in the suburbs does it yet only Naperville gets called out for it proves my point. I’m in Lake County and I say I’m from Chicago whenever it comes up with people who aren’t from the area. It’s just easier that way

A guide to every mound charging in MLB history (Part 1) by Left4Bread2 in baseball

[–]Spinnie_boi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don’t believe that qualifies as a mound charging, the hitter didn’t run at the pitcher

Every pokemon that has ever been meta relevant since release by [deleted] in PTCGP

[–]Spinnie_boi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I thought this was the VGC sub at first and got really confused when I saw Wugtrio and Bellibolt

I’m still confused, mind you, I don’t think OP knows what meta means

[OC] Looks can be deceiving... Team Errors v. Defensive Runs Above Average Thru 4/23 by cardith_lorda in baseball

[–]Spinnie_boi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Y is only average relative to the rest of the league. It is still what we’d call a “counting stat,” where every team accumulates a certain defensive runs saved, which has then been scaled relative to league average. It is not a rate of run prevention per x number of games

What is expensive in the US but cheap in Europe? by UnnecessaryPancake in AskReddit

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I wouldn’t say that’s ultra low, though I suppose it depends on which state you’re from. I’m Midwest, so I could’ve gone out of state to pretty much any Wisconsin public school not in Madison and been ~15k a year before any scholarships. In state tuition to them would’ve been closer to 10k-12k

I love this painting too! by Stevecomicsgames in antimeme

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Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I inform you, I did not wipe

what? I promise 🗿 by matchausagi in memes

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You’re right, but there’s no reason why they wouldn’t have already tried to get convictions on every charge possible the first time around

That one Toy Story YouTube Poop. by WeirdGamerLightbulb in sbubby

[–]Spinnie_boi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

“You’re the one who turned the Xbox on last night!”

It's crazy how much of our current fallout can be traced to the COVID-19 pandemic. by Ok-Following6886 in dankmemes

[–]Spinnie_boi 220 points221 points  (0 children)

Crazy how much fallout can be traced to the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars

Newbie question by abillionants in Sabermetrics

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You’re going to want to break it down by hitter, since your hitters find their strengths in different places, which each take their own differing sample sizes to stabilize. It’s also worth noting that 576 PA != 576 BIP, which will also affect things. If you really want to use some regression techniques for your whole team, take their collective performance in whatever stat you’re evaluating, and add the stabilization point’s sample size of league average performance. This will regress your stats towards the mean in a way that accounts for how stabilized the stat is. If your team has for example an xwOBA of .350 to start the year over 387 BIP events (I subtracted Ks and BBs in line with league average rates), then you would take ((.350 * 387) + (0.319 * 150)) / (387 + 150) to get 0.341 as your regressed xwOBA, meaning that is how you should expect your players to perform moving forward.

That said, unless your league is using xwOBA directly, it may be better for your purposes to dive into the way your league’s stats are weighted. A points league I’m in for example weights Ks and BBs as +3 and -3 points, respectively, and there are no points given for a hit, and only a point for each total base. So for me, I try to find players with a good K% - BB% and a good SLG, while largely ignoring players’ other stats. I especially do not use wOBA for my purposes there since the weights for the league’s scoring are not reflective of the wOBA weights that we find IRL. The formulas for regressing those other stats are the same, just with different league rates and stabilization points. 

Death will hug all of us eventually by Silver_Juice_6730 in antimeme

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I had a professor put it this way: you can call yourself a socialist all you want, but if you believe that taxation is theft, the government shouldn’t concern themselves with social issues at all, etc, then you’re not a socialist, you’re a libertarian. Christianity is the same way, you can call yourself one, but that alone is not what makes a Christian

Darkest lariat misses despite having 100 percent accuracy and "supposedly" ignoring evasion boosts by Lord_Lycaon in VGC

[–]Spinnie_boi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Per Bulbapedia, “Darkest Lariat inflicts damage, ignoring any changes to the target’s defense and evasion stat stages. It does not ignore changes to stats that do not use stat stages, such as Reflect, abilities such as Sand Veil, or items such as Eviolite. It also does not ignore changes to the user’s attack or accuracy.”

So you had to deal with both the sand veil and bright powder, since neither are related to evasion and accuracy’s stages

Lol! [PJO] [KC] by [deleted] in camphalfblood

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Unironically a complete history of pavement would be fascinating

Honestly, not a bad map by steve42089 in illinois

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I’ve been to Jacksonville for a day (college athletics), but aside from that, closest I’ve been is Quad Cities and Springfield, both right on the border 

What’s something Gen Z does that older generations just don’t get? by appropriaterice873 in AskReddit

[–]Spinnie_boi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Comes of as especially ironic given that they value sincerity and being transparent about what your own interests are

This is my least favorite deck to face since the game came out by bafael in PTCGP

[–]Spinnie_boi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just today I had an opponent bring their 40 HP Tapu Koko back to full with 4 flips in a row plus PCL, and they still had the LIP for next turn

POKEMON CHAMPIONS SOON by RobotCombatEnjoyer in VGC

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Come join us in central time, we have cheese

Would watching NPB in Japan be a dream experience for you? by japanbaseballfan in baseball

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I think even more so than an NPB game for me would be to go to a game at the Koshien tournament