http://wahoosonfirst.com A Cleveland Indians Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 18 May 2013 14:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://wahoosonfirst.com/2013/02/05/weighing-in-on-some-2013-indians-projections/ http://wahoosonfirst.com/2013/02/05/weighing-in-on-some-2013-indians-projections/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:36:40 +0000 Jason Leonard http://wahoosonfirst.com/?p=6806 Last week Jordan Bastian, MLB.com’s Cleveland Indians beat reporter, explained his projection methodology for the team’s offense in a blog post title “Projecting the offense.” His system, as he explained it, involves taking a player’s average production over the last three seasons, drawn out to create a 145 game sample for each year, and then averaging this production against the player’s most recent season. He used career numbers, instead of three year averages, for players with less than three years of experience. After doing some number-crunching for the nine players likely to see the most playing time, he presented his projections alongside those of Bill James. (more…)

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