{"id":4527,"date":"2011-07-09T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2012-06-03T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T01:58:46","slug":"bad-graph-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4527","title":{"rendered":"Bad Graph Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/news;_ylt=AluB2061f.GJFWqS99dOFfc5nYcB?slug=ys-derek_jeter_3000_hit_club_on_pace\">This<\/a> may be the stupidest graph I&#8217;ve ever seen.  They project Derek Jeter to get 4500 hits if he keeps going at his career pace for seven more years.  I mean, gee, if we&#8217;re playing that game, why not project him to play another 20 years and get 7,000 hits?<\/p>\n<p>You can see that the two comparison hit lines drop off abruptly when the players lost their skills.  Jeter has already started doing that.  At best, I&#8217;d expect him to finish with about 3300 hits or so, which is pretty damned good.  (Bill James Favorite Toy projects 3400-3500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the stupidest graph I&#8217;ve ever seen. They project Derek Jeter to get 4500 hits if he keeps going at his career pace for seven more years. I mean, gee, if we&#8217;re playing that game, why not project him to play another 20 years and get 7,000 hits? You can see that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad Graph Watch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[61,173],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-mathematics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1b1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}