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well damn, it makes sense now...

go PECOTA go [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

is it easy to get involved in this online baseball writing/analysis business?

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Silver usually plays on weekday evenings and sometimes stays up until sunrise so he can play against aggressive Scandinavian players.

LMFAO is this true? Are these guys that bad?

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I'm amused that the writer mentioned the Scandinavian thing, but yeah, you usually see these guys start signing on at like 4 or 5 in the morning central time, and they generally play very aggressively. If I see somebody from Trondheim or Flekkefjord or something, I'm usually going to put a few extra value bets in.

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well damn, it makes sense now...

go PECOTA go [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

is it easy to get involved in this online baseball writing/analysis business?

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Hey we've got a best-selling book out there too. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Not just online.

In some sense the analytical baseball writing (er... sabermetric) community is a meritocracy. I had a pilot of PECOTA done before I ever contacted the BP guys ... Keith Woolner was building awesome stats like VORP on his own website long before BP found him ... Will Carroll had built his own newsletter with quite a substantial subscription base before we recruited him, and so forth. There aren't a lot of barriers to entry and it's very easy to create your own blog, produce your own studies, and so forth.

The flip side is that there are an awful lot of voices out there, and sometimes the more eloquent and intelligent among them get lost amidst the din. I'm fairly certain that there is a lot of great work out there that isn't known or appreciated because its creators have not had much success at (or much concern with) promoting themselves.

I'm also fairly certain that there are a couple of dozen people on 2+2 who could do some really good work if they set their mind to it. A LOT of the BP guys are pretty good poker players, and there are a LOT of overlaps between the two fields.

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Silver usually plays on weekday evenings and sometimes stays up until sunrise so he can play against aggressive Scandinavian players.

LMFAO is this true? Are these guys that bad?

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Some of the best games I've ever played have been at around 6am. It is very true IMO.

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I am aware the games are great late nights/early morning but I thought this was because of drunk americans...not aggro scandinavians...lol

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Is there anything more scary than an aggro Scandinavian???

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Flesh-eating bacteria.

-Michael

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Is there anything more scary than an aggro Scandinavian???

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Does anyone notice the irony of Minnesota having a strong Scandinavian background and people generally referring to Minnesotan poker players (and midwesterners on the overall whole) as being amongst the most loose-passive?

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If ever China gets on board, this will also apply to the West Coast.

-Michael

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Good article. The baseball stat folks are really drawn to poker, and many do very well.

curious, Do you play CDM? How about whatif?

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I'm amused that the writer mentioned the Scandinavian thing, but yeah, you usually see these guys start signing on at like 4 or 5 in the morning central time, and they generally play very aggressively. If I see somebody from Trondheim or Flekkefjord or something, I'm usually going to put a few extra value bets in.

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The scandinavian countries are wealthy and a lot of people have broadband connections at home. I'm not surprised we supply our share of the fish, however I wonder why we are aggressive. Do you see more LAGs or TAGs from the -heims and -fjords?

-Magnus