THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2008

December, 2008

• 31 WAR to dollar valuation, but roster space management

• 31 If you build it, 75000 will come…

• 30 Hockeynomics

• 30 Best Eligible Players, Not in the Hall of Fame (Win Shares)

• 30 Contemporaneous accounts of Jim Rice

• 30 Jack Marshall

• 29 The Book reviewed in Great Britain

• 29 Drama Index

• 26 This year’s winner of the “Lamest Reason For Not Voting For Raines”

• 25 The latest in park factors

• 24 (recent) Historical WAR on Fangraphs

• 23 Recommended reading list

• 23 Dual Positions, using bUZR

• 23 The Studes interview

• 20 And more on positional adjustments

• 19 All Rob Neyer, All the time

• 19 Like Grandy, another bright, informed player…

• 18 Hall of Fame, please hold… and hold

• 18 2B v 3B

• 18 Hall of Merit Database

• 18 Chone has its own site

• 17 Teaching sabermetrics at school

• 17 The Honor of Fighting

• 17 Are you looking for work in MLB?

• 16 Madoff’s Ponzi

• 16 Sabermetrician Curtis Granderson

• 16 Pitching while injured

• 15 Contact meets the Negro Baseball Museum

• 15 The killer iPhone app won’t cost 99 cents

• 15 Stupid off-field injuries

• 15 This day is Athlete Goodwill

• 15 Sabremetrics for Sabremetrics-sake?

• 13 Get your nose out of that spreadsheet, and watch, no make that PLAY, a game

• 12 Valuing relievers

• 12 sUZR v bUZR

• 12 More updates at Fangraphs…

• 11 Population of players by birth month

• 11 Joining SABR?

• 11 Which sport has the best athletes?

• 11 Defensive Outfielders

• 11 Seasonal Leverage Index

• 10 Each team’s best player not in the Hall of Fame

• 09 UZR v PMR v UZR

• 09 Online game using Marcel

• 09 Poll: The relaunch of WARP

• 09 Today in Chicago-style politics…

• 09 If the Internet had always existed, would the sports print media have ever been born?

• 09 Primer on: The need for the positional baseline

• 09 The Veteran’s Committee

• 09 Javy Vazquez

• 08 Bill James does positional adjustments

• 08 TotalZone leaders

• 07 UZR on Fangraphs: using BIS on Ichiro

• 05 O.J. thread

• 05 Dustin Pedroia

• 05 Meauring talent in a vaccum

• 05 The state of fielding sabermetrics in MLB

• 04 Poll: Would you vote Raines for the Hall?

• 04 Raines for the Hall

• 03 What would happen if the shootout period was 10 minutes, not 5?

• 03 Avery being Avery

• 03 How to calculate the area of a baseball field

• 03 NYC’s 3 1/2 year mandatory jail time sentence for carrying a loaded weapon

• 02 The Holy Writers strike again!

• 02 RARP v VORP, take 2

• 02 Estimating BABIP

• 01 What was Pedro worth?

• 01 Get Rice in the Hall already

• 01 Michael Farber

• 01 What people search for in Canada

• 01 Multi-game sports table

• 01 The 3-0 count