THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2008

August, 2008

• 30 Great TV Moments

• 29 RARP v VORP

• 29 Preview to Run Creation

• 28 Clay Davenport: replacement-level is…. .350 win%, not .150 win%?

• 28 Alvarez

• 28 Step-by-step PITCHf/x

• 27 How can you tell if a change in rules is a good change?

• 26 What should I research?

• 26 Rise up and burnouts

• 26 With or Without You

• 26 Search Inside The Book

• 26 Bridging the Statistical Gap

• 25 Long and short atbats

• 25 Five of the ten best teams play in the AL east?

• 22 Soap for the mouth

• 22 Forecasts and Steroids

• 22 Did you hear the one about the lawyer, the scholarly publication, and the analyst?

• 22 Move over Marcel, make way for…

• 21 A-11 offense in football

• 20 Stupid Windows “Features”

• 19 More Knuckleballs

• 19 Josh Hamilton screams, fans support him

• 19 The 2008 Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans

• 19 How common is your name?

• 18 Handedness in sports

• 18 Man v Machine

• 18 Maps and Territories

• 18 What happens when contending teams play out-of-it teams in September?

• 18 PITCHf/x Curveballs

• 15 The Game Inside The Game

• 15 92 million dollars?  No, 7.45… take it or leave it.  I’ll take it!

• 15 Situational Hitting and Adam Dunn

• 15 Creating the ideal draft system

• 14 How much does losing Longoria and Crawford hurt the Rays?

• 14 Fixing VORP

• 14 wOBA online

• 14 Bayes’ Theorem

• 13 Baseball Guides

• 13 Peace in the MidEast, the Metric System in America, or OBP over BA?

• 12 Even supposedly smart people (teams) can do dumb things…

• 12 1994 Expos

• 12 Volunteers for Retrosheet

• 12 Attaching a face (and voice) to a name…

• 11 Best performances of 2008, as of today

• 11 Translating Relievers into W/L records

• 09 Should players and/or teams try and get pitchers to increase their pitch counts?

• 09 Linear Weights v Runs Created

• 08 2008 Olympics

• 08 Real men don’t throw underhanded?

• 07 The Perfect DH rule

• 07 Presentation on Defense

• 07 Ethics in Baseball

• 07 Does it really matter if Juan Pierre plays every game?

• 06 Fielding differences in the positions

• 06 Expansion

• 06 How about we have two major leagues…

• 06 David Price to the bullpen?

• 06 The 9th inning reliever

• 06 Bay, Ramirez, WPA

• 05 Assumed risk in attending a game

• 05 Observed Performance Inferring True Talent (OPITT)

• 05 Boys as smart as girls, but boys more likely to be at the smart (and stupid) end?

• 05 Baseball Prospectus Minor League Translations

• 05 Is this player having a sub-par year with the bat (and the problem with OPS or OPS+)?

• 04 Poz: The Zieglers

• 04 Business of Sports

• 04 The dynamics of the Pirates

• 04 FTP program

• 04 Here is a great article on “regression toward the mean”

• 03 Are the TB Rays a “story”

• 02 Really stupid baseball rules that SHOULD be re-written…

• 01 Edgar

• 01 Lazy assumptions or lazy research?

• 01 Joba

• 01 What is worse?  Old ladies yapping gossip about neighbors, or grown men yapping rumors about trades?