Interesting new article by Bill James: The Competitive Advantage of the Pitcher’s Park

It is in the latest issue of By the Numbers: The Newsletter of the SABR Statistical Analysis Committee, edited by Phil Birnbaum.

Click here to read it.

Here is a synopsis from Phil:

"Bill James finds that teams who play in pitcher's parks have had better records, historically, than teams who play in hitter's parks. He presents the data showing the effect, and then offers a suggestion for why this may be happening."

Also in the issue, Charlie Pavitt reviews several recent studies from the academic literature.