Dugout Study Hall - Rick Mahieu (@PARSlist [https://twitter.com/PARSlist]), creator of PARS [bit.ly/PARSlist], joins expert layman Matt Goodwin (@TheCorkedMatt [https://twitter.com/TheCorkedMatt]) and fake baseball economist Alexander Chase (@chase_rate [https://twitter.com/chase_rate]) to talk about his creation, his connection with baseball, and a whole bunch of prospects. We also get his take on the one-game Wild Card play-in. 

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Timestamps:

* What will Alexander complain about next? (01:25)

* Welcome Rick Mahieu (03:48)

* What does baseball mean to Rick? (06:30)

* When did start making player predictions? (10:20)

* The story of PARS (12:55)

* Numbers of the Week: Rick's favorite baseball stat/number (16:18)

* How does PARS work a little bit differently? (21:06)

* Ranker and rater (24:08)

* PARS and Juan Yepez (25:52)

* PARS Scale (31:47)

* How do you project really young players? (38:18)

* The players (40:47)

* Some outliers based on PARS (46:43)

* Projection system flaws (52:10)

* Pass/Fail: One-game play-in (58:46)

Note: Episode recorded on 10/6.

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