Comments on: Degrees of Scum http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=655 Missing Sleep Since June 2007 (Blogging Since 2005) Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=655&cpage=1#comment-592 Mike Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:13:29 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=655#comment-592 Great contribution! I’ll be sure to reference it in future posts!

]]> By: owlcroft http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=655&cpage=1#comment-590 owlcroft Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:40:04 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=655#comment-590 Re: “there is not enough evidence that steroids really make a ballplayer better”. There is, in fact, a mass of evidence that steroids have little or no effect on performance, especially batting performance. There are at least four studies, three published and my own close to it:

Professor Arthus DeVany: “Steroids, Home Runs and the Law of Genius”

Nate Silver (2005): Steroids

Nate Silver (2006 – different approach): “What Do Statistics Tell Us About Steroids?”

When my own is finished, it will be at http://highboskage.com/steroids.shtml; I have the analysis done, but am now developing comments on the Mitchell Report, which is a lawyerly mess.

Oh, who am I? The guy George F. Will referred to in The new York Times as “the most important baseball thinker you have never heard of.” I’m not trying to brag, just to give some credibility to the idea of my having done a relevant study.

]]> By: Harley http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=655&cpage=1#comment-588 Harley Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:13:18 +0000 http://michaelsiegel.net/?p=655#comment-588 in 10 15 years this will all be moot.
Players will be REQUIRED, or at lest encouraged to us prefomance enhancers.

I op for them all being on LSD while on the field. THAT would make it more interesting. LOL.

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