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Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA
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Nate Silver
American statistician and writer (born 1978)
Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, political analyst, author, sports gambler, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball and elections. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and held the position of editor-in-chief there, along with being a special…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
PECOTA
Sabermetric system for forecasting baseball player performance
PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)