How Baseball Analytics Is Reshaping Hall of Fame Conversations

About this episode

The episode discusses how baseball analytics, particularly the JAWS metric, is influencing Hall of Fame conversations and includes insights on player performance and win probability in various sports.

Cade, Eric, Shane, and Adi discuss NHL playoff hockey, expected goals models, statistical limits in measuring player performance, and how sports like hockey, soccer, baseball, and football differ in the way win probability builds and shifts during competition. Jay Jaffe, senior writer for FanGraphs, the author of The Cooperstown Casebook, and the creator of the JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score) metric for Hall of Fame analysis. joins the Moneyball team to break down early MLB season surprises, debate modern Hall of Fame standards for pitchers, explain the JAWS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Cade, Eric, Shane, Adi

Guest: Jay Jaffe

Topics covered

• baseball analytics
• Hall of Fame
• player performance
• NHL playoffs
• win probability
• JAWS metric

Keywords

• baseball
• analytics
• Hall of Fame
• JAWS
• NHL
• expected goals
• player performance
• sports

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FanGraphs

Books & works: The Cooperstown Casebook

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