Astros HOF Index: The Player A and B test

Erik Williams-USA TODAY SportsWe are starting our journey in the Hall of Fame index and I’m guessing most of you are not familiar with it. In the books, I obviously spent a lot more time going through a statistical tutorial. We don’t have that kind of time. I’m sure many of you will glaze over when we go through the minutia of why this particular number and what it means.

One of the fun things I get to do in the books is what Bill James first dubbed the “Player A and B test”. The general idea behind the index is to allow us to categorize players into similar groups so we can get a better handle of where they stand historically. Simply put, one of our two players will be Jose Altuve. First, I…