Greetings, friends and Frogs, and welcome to the first real, honest-to-God, we’re going to look at the numbers preview of the season. The sun has risen this morning, the advanced stats profiles are live, and we have the number 2 ranked team (in S&P+) coming in to town on Saturday. We’re in for a solid week.
Before jumping into the preview, I want to segue into a comment about using advanced stats, especially towards the beginning of the season. In baseball, when a pitcher has a good ERA to start the season., analysts and fans are quick to run and check his “peripherals”, the underlying stats that contextualize a performance.