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In Kerry Whisnant’s campus office, the St. Louis Cardinals’ roster and a formula for baseball success sometimes share chalkboard space with jottings about the physics of neutrinos. Whisnant recently took up a decades-old formula written by Bill James, the baseball author and statistician who inspired sabermetrics and is a senior adviser for baseball operations for the Boston Red Sox. (Credit: Bob Elbert/Iowa State University)
IOWA STATE (US)—Kerry Whisnant is a St. Louis Cardinals fan. He’s also a physicist who has worked out one of baseball’s mathematical mysteries. According to Whisnant’s calculation, runs alone don’t add up to wins. Continue…
