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Old 05-30-2011, 02:32 PM   #661
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Originally Posted by JayP View Post
UZR (and almost all other advanced defensive metrics) is almost useless when looking at a 2 month period. Even on a year-to-year basis there's a lot of noise. I know for UZR in particular they say that you need to look at three years of data before things start to stabilize.
Then that would make the graph gozer posted essentially useless, wouldn't it?
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