Response of Jason Wilson ana Jarvis Greiner to David Hoaglin's Letter to the Editor

摘要

We would like to express our thanks to David Hoaglin for his careful reading of our work and for his critical feedback. We are honored that someone of his stature in the community would take the time. To frame our response, we remind the reader that we wrote our paper not to assert a final model for quantifying curveballs, but rather to put the idea for whether a curveball could be quantified to the public test, which is essentially what we stated in our conclusion: "If our concept were adopted, the coefficients would need to be updated with more data from different pitchers with different skill levels rated by different coaches."