# Statistical Analysis, Baseball, and Unbridled Hostility **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistical-analysis-baseball-and-unbridled-hostility/444886 **Category:** The Game Room **Created:** [April 11, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistical-analysis-baseball-and-unbridled-hostility/444886 "2008-04-11T13:44:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 52
### Author: ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay) #### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistical-analysis-baseball-and-unbridled-hostility/444886/52 "2008-04-18T19:03:00Z")
[QUOTE=Parthol] **Elvis** , if you can show that I’m misrepresenting your posting patterns on these topics, I’ll apologize. But it’s frustrating debating with someone who disappears right after his claims have seemingly been debunked. [/QUOTE] Whaddyaknow, he ran away. Again. ElvisL1ves has a RAFT, or Ran Away From Thread Percentage, of .782 when challenged on an unsupported, insulting generalization; it climbs to .941 when involving baseball. The board average is only .446 (if you limit the sample size to regular posters, defined as posters with 1000 or more posts; the number is significantly higher if replacement-level posters are included.) It’s a record percentage, though you have to bear mind mind that he supports a team in a DH league, which raises the baseline RAFT by about 25 points, and then you’ve got the possibility of PEDs (Post-Enchancing Drugs.) If we extrapolate his RAFT across his TNPACRP (Total Non-Poll, Affirmation, or Contest-Related Posts) he has the fourth highest TDP (Thread Dump Percentage) in the modern SDMB era. I can’t name the top three, that would be a flame. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistical-analysis-baseball-and-unbridled-hostility/444886)._