Baseball Research
Clay Dreslough has been a member of 'SABR', the Society for American Baseball Research, since 1995. He is the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance. His other contributions to baseball research include the SABR style manual, an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a 'DICE' (Defense-Independent Component ERA).
In 1999, Dreslough invented and popularized a new format for the MLB postseason. After an organized letter-writing campaign to the baseball commissioner, this format was adopted for the 2012 season.
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