Rich Data, Poor Data
This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s March 2 Analytics Issue. Subscribe today! In the 2000 edition of Baseball Prospectus, Keith Woolner identified 23 problems — avenues of analysis that had been dead ends for turn-of-the-millennium statheads. (For instance, No. 10: “Projecting minor league pitchers accurately.”) Woolner named these Hilbert Problems, after mathematician David Hilbert, […]
