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Old 10-27-2013, 08:00 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by chucksabr View Post
I don't see why this would be programming challenge. Take every height and weight for all the players born in the 1980s, and for every decade they are born before that, adjust it down by a certain appropriate percentage. They can continue to put the shorties in the middle infield and the Lerches on the mound. Or no? What am I missing?
If the program is designed to view 6' 2" players as tall and 5' 8" players as short, then that's a problem if the average height is 5' 8". I doubt that the program looks at averages rather than absolute numbers.
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