At 09:52 PM 9/18/2002 -0700, t-and-f-digest wrote..
Jeff Kent was elected MVP of the
National League back in 2000 while hitting .334 with 33 HR and 125 RBI,
while Todd Helton was way back in 5th in the voting while hitting .372, 42
HR, and 147 RBI. Some of that is positional - Kent plays 2B and
It may not be scientific but people DO try to compare distance performances.
Compare Lopes' dismantling of the best runners of the world in the heat and
humidity of LA to the rabbited WR Rotterdam performances with perfect weather.
I don't need a slide rule to tell me what was more impressive.
Richard wrote;
As another post said, we don't try to make similar
comparisons between distance races where varying conditions have
substantial influence.
Well, for a correlation to be meaningful, it needs to be relatively
universal. The nice thing about physical forces such as wind and air
