THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2009

September, 2009

• 30 Carl Bialik meet: featuring The Poz

• 30 HR presentation

• 30 Intentionally dropping the bunt

• 30 Thoughts from the 2009 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports

• 30 The Marcels’ team-forecasts doing well

• 29 Shooting Fish in a Barrel Again

• 29 The 2009 Mariners: when Stats and Scouts converge

• 29 Leverage Index in 1925

• 28 Working the count, for the team

• 28 “Defense, defense… git yer defense here!”

• 28 The Bat-Glove

• 28 Optimal running path

• 28 Game theory on pitch selection

• 25 Should you be allowed to praise our President in school?

• 25 What if you had no teammates?

• 25 The greatest single-game reliever performance of my generation?

• 25 Poz revists 1980.  But, what does WPA say?

• 24 How to talk about small sample sizes

• 24 Loyalty? Loyalty my ass.

• 24 I thought we all agreed that once we “kick him upstairs”, we stop talking about whats-his-name?

• 24 Brad Lidge

• 24 The binomialized function of EqA

• 24 Slugging on Balls In Play

• 24 Fangraphs: now on iPhone!

• 23 Disco Hayes: now vying for title of Sabermetric Player of the Year

• 23 Field of Dreams - Canadian Style

• 23 Defensive Indifference

• 23 What is wrong with this picture?

• 22 Measuring clubhouse chemistry

• 22 The ideal Playoff Structure

• 21 Doug Glanville: Times On Base

• 21 PITCHf/x (nee: FoxTrax Puck)

• 21 Best Fastballs in Baseball

• 21 This week’s sign of the apocalypse

• 20 NBA version of Marcel holding its own

• 19 At what point would you prefer road stats only?

• 19 WPA captures the essence of baseball

• 19 What if Pujols saw Juan Pierre’s pitch distribution?

• 18 Should a pitcher have a fair chance at the MVP?

• 18 The triple double-zero seasons

• 18 The impact of PITCHf/x, as seen by a non-saberist

• 17 The arguments AGAINST Mauer

• 17 The transformation of the Hyphenator

• 17 What if forwards were limited to their shot quality like defensemen are?

• 17 “Saberists dismiss those who disagree as ignorant dolts”

• 17 Primer on the batter’s brain

• 17 The PCA Manifest

• 16 Game theory course at Yale

• 16 More math nonsense

• 16 An interception is like losing 60 yards

• 16 “Dad Catches Foul Ball, Toddler Throws it Back”

• 16 Cool chart… now can someone explain the birds?

• 16 DiamondView Composite graphs

• 16 Google Reader

• 16 SABR going online?

• 15 How long should Eckstein and Kendall be allowed to play MLB, and why?

• 15 Marcel of Joy

• 15 Is Ovechkin the hundred million dollar legs with the 5 cent head?

• 15 The bias of human stringers

• 15 Neyer on Poz on The Machine

• 15 Would you rather take the performance of the Royals cleanup hitters, or the Rockies’ #NINE hitters?

• 14 First he is horrible, then he is a genius, then maybe he’s not such a genius…

• 14 When most of your sample is Mariano Rivera, the cutter as a pitch looks good

• 14 How to definitely tell if the team you support is an extension of the old, or the start of a new:

• 14 CF talent

• 14 Tie-breaking scenarios

• 14 Kenny Lofton: Ichiro, before Ichiro! ?

• 13 Mets/Phils: One of the worst things a manager can call for…

• 13 Why is it that people just can’t tell the truth…

• 11 Historical MLEs

• 11 The disappearance of Zito’s second curve

• 10 I am 100% in favor of Fielder and the Brewers

• 10 Is there any merit to this logic?

• 10 Team names for parents

• 10 Times On Base v Hits

• 10 FIP - fielding independent AND randomly-sequenced events pitching

• 10 “You lie!”

• 10 Bases per PA, part 2

• 09 How to apologize

• 09 A pitcher’s stuff

• 09 The monthly “WPA, Primer, and me” thread

• 09 Christina Kahrl: “Why use wOBA when EqA’s testably more accurate?”

• 08 Are forecasting systems useless?

• 08 Poz’s Production

• 08 Scouting Report: thanks to Astros and Rockies fans; still looking for more Marlins and Pirates fans

• 08 If you are illiterate, does that mean you can’t contribute in the public sector?

• 08 Is Chase Utley really black?

• 08 The American healthcare model around the world

• 08 Pssst… Wanna Work at Hardball Times?

• 08 Poz sees what Cubs fans see

• 08 Baseball Guts, part 2

• 08 Picking on Joe Sheehan and BP again (like shooting fish in a barrel?)

• 07 Prostate cancer and the PSA test

• 06 The 11-second single

• 06 Possibly the dumbest question I have ever heard/seen since…

• 06 An example of how traditional stats can be deceiving

• 05 Reaching out to any of the pitch f/x guys…

• 05 This is a really good article…

• 05 The Mauer forecast

• 04 In case you did not see the link on BBTF, this is a wonderful story

• 04 Is it important to be a “non-results-oriented” person?

• 04 Odds of making the HOF

• 04 Why would Boston bat Ortiz against a tough lefty?

• 04 Best WAR by decade - pitchers

• 04 Best WAR by Birth Decade

• 04 WAR by Age for HOF selected by BBWAA

• 04 Break v Movement

• 04 Speedster on first, fastball hitter at bat: what do you do?

• 03 What about if a team has 97 wins in one year, and then gets better?

• 03 Do Speed, Pitching, and Defense get leveraged in a large park?

• 03 The fallacy of “integrity and character”

• 03 Mets on the DL

• 03 Minor league pitcher says: It’s because of the random variation of my BABIP!

• 03 David Dejesus for Gold Glove?

• 02 And, he wan’t even heatlhy this year…

• 02 Loss from piracy

• 02 Are some NHL players really this clueless regarding escrow?

• 02 The Poz challenge to simplicity

• 02 Home Field Advantage by travel

• 01 Another Stat of the Week

• 01 Question of the day

• 01 MPG

• 01 WOWY: does Ichiro hate the stringers?

• 01 Servitude is loyalty

• 01 Why Marcel may have a great year

• 01 Does a balnced offense score more than an imbalanced one?