Are today’s hitters getting better? Are today’s pitchers getting worse?! Dr. Gould meets Rev. Bayes
As all 4,326,379 regular readers of this blog/journal know, I’m perplexed—haunted—by an anomaly in Gould’s conjecture. Gould’s conjecture is essentially that as a sport matures, differences in the performances of the top competitors will become more compressed—variance will shrink—as a result of a growing talent pool and selection pressures. This phenomenon has been observed across […]