Pith Number

pith:OXY2FTIS

pith:2018:OXY2FTISKKYVP6UDBQNW2Z5DAG

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Challenging nostalgia and performance metrics in baseball

Daniel J. Eck

arxiv:1810.08029 v3 · 2018-10-18 · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OXY2FTISKKYVP6UDBQNW2Z5DAG}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:09.359179Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

75f1a2cd1252b157fa830c1b6d67a3018302d77b9d843397c42f65c03ba35e8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.08029 · arxiv_version: 1810.08029v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.08029 · pith_short_12: OXY2FTISKKYV · pith_short_16: OXY2FTISKKYVP6UD · pith_short_8: OXY2FTIS

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OXY2FTISKKYVP6UDBQNW2Z5DAG \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 75f1a2cd1252b157fa830c1b6d67a3018302d77b9d843397c42f65c03ba35e8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb66a8e047aca6f801d49f8f3b661770f63cb7e00f8dad02eaf438a50a7eb1c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-18T13:06:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ec02eb772727f47c647afc18ba0aaedf9818ac03c29c5d30d032e45886c9f5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.08029",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}