As promised, below you can find the answers to the crossword puzzle and cryptoquote posted Friday in honor of National Puzzle Day. I'm not posting the solution to the BProdoku, because I suspect anyone that attempted it was able to solve it with little difficulty, and an image with 81 tiny pictures of BP contributors looks disconcertingly like the "Guess Who?" game. Hope you enjoyed them.
Puzzle #1: A Crossword Cross-Section of BP History
Across
1 Performance that's hard to prove (6): CLUTCH
4 Descriptor of situational importance (8): LEVERAGE
6 "Scout v. Stat" liquid (4): BEER
8 The product of skill interaction at its peak (5): SIERA
9 Dexter and overspecialized (5): ROOGY
10 Oft-misunderstood literary catchall (9): MONEYBALL
13 Provides analysis that's more than skin deep (9): JAZAYERLI
14 Our Spielberg (5): JAFFE
15 Not a member of The Tribe, though both a chief and a scout (9): GOLDSTEIN
18 He Keeps Immobility Next to Godliness (8): HUCKABAY
20 Or, more simply, "Young Pitchers Often Break" (9): TINSTAAPP
21 A member of The Tribe (7): WOOLNER
23 Sinister and overspecialized (5): LOOGY
24 Predicted both the pros and the College (6): SILVER
25 So smart and innovative, he gives us the shakes (9): DAVENPORT
Down
2 Is not 17 Down (11): CORRELATION
3 Organization we're celebrating this weekend (4): SABR
4 BBWAA, Q&A (7): LAURILA
5 Our Oracle, originally in Excel (6): PECOTA
6 Stereotypical stathead lair (8): BASEMENT
7 Annual reverse-hibernator (7): GOLDMAN
11 Wrote Today, and still writes most days (7): SHEEHAN
12 "Scout v. Stat" solids (5): TACOS
16 Voros' party contribution (4): DIPS
17 Isn't proven by 2 Down (9): CAUSATION
19 The first to wishcast (5): KAHRL
21 Shatner's favorite metric (4): WARP
22 Jabberwock's favorite metric (4): VORP
Puzzle #3: A SABR-Toothed Cryptoquote, or, Maybe We Can Hunt Them To Extinction
"That is the entire difference between sabermetrics and traditional sportswriting. It isn’t the use of statistics. It isn’t the use of formulas. It is merely the habit of beginning with a question, rather than beginning with an answer."
Bill James
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