There is no soap opera in the Cubs’ world to report today, so my morning is missing its usual spice. But that gives me (well, all of us) a break to pause for reflection. Does this team really need to make major changes? Let’s lean on our old pal Pythagoras, or rather, the baseball interpretation of his theorem as defined by Bill James.
The Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball is a James creation that relates the number of runs a team has scored and surrendered to its actual winning percentage. It is based on the idea that runs scored compared to runs allowed is a better indicator of a team’s performance than actual winning percentage.