Sabermetrics for the youth

Muddy Chicken

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So my boy is 13 and LOVES baseball. This year, via Kahn Academy he has started to enjoy math. I'd love to marry the two. Are there any places out there for a beginner to learn the ropes? This is a kid who would rather play catch for 15 minutes than play on the WIi for two hours. When he's on the computer, it's all MLB highlights, all the time. After the math that is. Again, he's 13 and just starting to enjoy math at a basic level.

Suggestions?

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iayork

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So my boy is 13 and LOVES baseball. This year, via Kahn Academy he has started to enjoy math. I'd love to marry the two. Are there any places out there for a beginner to learn the ropes? This is a kid who would rather play catch for 15 minutes than play on the WIi for two hours. When he's on the computer, it's all MLB highlights, all the time. After the math that is. Again, he's 13 and just starting to enjoy math at a basic level.
Does he have any computer experience? Are we talking about working out stuff with paper and pencil, with spreadsheets, or programming in various languages?
 

PapaSox

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Dec 26, 2015
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Hey! I can use whatever you come up with. There is far too much noise in my head to get this stuff to stay put in my head.
 

bankshot1

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Not knowing your son's skills or his depth of interest, how about an introduction to baseball-reference.com or fangraphs and let him get lost in stats and let him play with #s, or read some of the studies,articles I would have loved those resources as a stat-oriented 13 year old baseball fan in 1964.