What was Ruth like as a pitcher?

[Lobo Aullando]

Originally Posted by Snowman

The p-value gives you the likelihood of getting a 7 Strikeout sample from 76 at bats given his "true" Strikeout rate of 5.6% or whatever it was stated above.

One actually needs to take to whole tail, so it's the sum of all the outcome probabilities from 7 Ks all the way up to 76 Ks.

I'll defer on the interpretation, but I'd also note that Ruth struck out 112 left-handed batters in their 733 at-bats against, and Cobb's splits aren't nearly as divergent.

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