re usa mcweekly stats in article apr mnemosyne cs du edu gspira nyx cs du edu greg spira says rvesterm vma cc nd edu writes in article franjion spot colorado edu franjion spot colorado edu john franjione says also i have the impression from reading this group and bill james that elias is a bunch of money grubbing jerks whose mission is to charge as much as they can for baseball statistical info and bill james is not yeah sure do you own the bill james players rating book uh bill james doesn t sell statistics he sells books with statistics but he is not in the business of providing stats like elias stats howe baseball workshop etc are greg funny it seems to me that the stats major league and minor league handbooks which are nothing but collections of statistics are authored by bill james and stats inc and howe for the minor league handbook and i am not sure how the bill james player ratings book qualifies as a book with statistics while the elias analyst is a statistics book the analyst contains more stats sure but it also contains more dialogue finally the point was not about the word statistics it was about money grubbing i don t see how anyone who has looked at the bill james player ratings book cannot consider him money grubbing bob vesterman
