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Hello nukkxx,


i totaly agree with Cynical and the strategy guide. Its very old and the tactics explained are overhauled today. But as a beginners standpoint, what is Cynical talking about? "sabermetric wisdom" ?
Is this a new baseball rule?
No, the rules in baseball 2000 were the same as today. 9 innings, 3 outs ends an inning, pitchers throw the ball, batters try to hit em.


But at some point the view how we look at games/strategy and how we look at players changed. A good film about this is "Moneyball with Brad Pit". Spoiler Alert: Pre Moneyball area: "How to choose a player: How does a player look like or his girlfriend", after Moneyball "What is the on base percentage (OBP) of a player". The baseball rules are the same, but suddenly GM´s choose other baseball players as before.


The same thing happend with baseball strategies. There were unwritten rules how to play. But with statistics and computers these unwritten rules were falsified (like the lineup in the article Cynical talked about).
The sentence "with statistis and computers" is very mystic and without explaination the same as "unwritten rules". If u wanne dive deeper in the sabermetric stuff (make decisions on statistics) i would recommend the book "The book, playing the percentages in baseball" from Tango, Lichtman and Dolphin. Another book in this direction (not as detailed or documented with statistics as "the book") is "Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution" from Brian Kenny. If u just wanne read one book, i would recommend "The book" from Tango, Lichtman and Dolphin