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Old 07-20-2004, 08:30 PM   #2
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Baseball performances are an imperfect measure of baseball abilities, and consequently exaggerate differences in abilities. Predictions of relative batting averages and earned run averages can be improved substantially by using correlation coefficients estimated from earlier seasons to shrink performances toward the mean.
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