Thursday, February 11, 2010

SIERA & The 2009 Cardinals

Follow the money trail. The stat de jour is SIERA, created by Matt Schwartz and Eric Seidman of Baseball Prospectus. SIERA stands for Skill-Interactive Earned Run Average, and let’s face it, See-air-ah is a lot more graceful off of the tongue than Ecks-fip. The BP writers say that SIERA accomplishes the following, and this is a good ol’ fashioned direct cut-n-paste definition from the introductory article, because I’m feeling lazy, after the jump

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