THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2009

October, 2009

• 31 Liveblog - World Series Game 3

• 31 Some actual data and research on hot and cold pitchers (for one game), rather than just “opinion”

• 31 Who is right - McCarver or Manuel?

• 31 How you can get into a dumb argument when the facts are not articulated well…

• 31 Reason number 18 why you don’t want Joe Girardi managing your favorite WS team…

• 30 Curtis Granderson’s take on hitters being hot or cold…

• 30 How to calculate Linear Weights, part 2

• 30 Avoid listening to any one person’s observations

• 30 MLB salaries v GDP

• 30 It wasn’t just the good numbers - it was that he was locked in, confident, and loose!

• 30 Some thoughts on Game 2, other than the obvious ones, like AJ pitched a good game…

• 29 Liveblog - World Series Game 2

• 29 Girardi just couldn’t help himself…

• 29 “Powerful bombers just too tough for fightin’ Phils to overcome”

• 29 ‘Powerful bombers just too tough for fightin’ Phils to overcome’

• 29 Should Girardi have brought in Coke in the 8th inning versus Ibanez?

• 28 Ricky Nolasco: great season or forgettable?

• 28 The season is too long… to crown a champion

• 28 Teixeira, take 2

• 28 Google Reader

• 28 Where can I find [Tango-championed stat] ?

• 28 DH advantage in the World Series?

• 28 Is Ryan Howard really that bad versus LHP?

• 27 How well did the Community forecast playing time?

• 27 John Smoltz: Sabermetrician!

• 27 Everything you ever wanted to know about the sacrifice bunt, but did not want to read for 50 pages

• 27 Worst player to reach 3000 hits?

• 27 “Don’t use regression to calculate Linear Weights”

• 27 CC, the reliever?

• 26 Montreal Expos

• 26 Forecasters Challenge 2009 - Who was similar to who

• 26 Proof that fans don’t believe in small sample size

• 26 Who is this pitcher?

• 26 Umpire stats

• 26 Liveblog - World Series Game 1

• 25 Forecasters Challenge 2009 - Results!

• 25 What would happen if Girardi benches Swisher and plays Gardner in center and Melky in right…

• 24 Deconstructing Joe Sheehan’s analysis of Game 6 of the ALCS

• 23 Deconstructing the ARod walk

• 23 HuffPost: Fangraphs is a game-changer

• 23 Professional male athlete of a team sport comes out

• 23 Should we hold BPro accountable for unannounced changes?

• 23 Our favorite football coach

• 23 Your best arguments against the government making gay-marriage illegal

• 23 What was Mike Scioscia thinking?

• 22 Dodgers’ 95-67 record changed to 74-88 due to Manny PED violation

• 22 “An Examination of Ice Hockey Players’ Imagery Use and Movement Imagery Ability”

• 22 How to use Baseball Reference’s Play Index to Sum Game Logs

• 22 Bill James Online

• 22 Why I hate regression “techniques”

• 22 Fun time-waster: Sabermetric inventor quiz

• 22 Reader post of the day: B-R.com and WPA

• 22 Your best arguments against gay-marriage

• 22 Hierarchical Pitch Classification

• 21 Starter v Relief, 1953-2008

• 21 WSJ’s Futterman gets it on Madoff’s Ponzi

• 21 Kovash/Levitt paper

• 20 The worst umpiring and baserunning I’ve ever seen in the same game…

• 20 Performance in playoffs on short-rest

• 20 John Abbamondi, asst GM of Cards

• 20 Buzz blogs Moneyball

• 19 What can happen if you manage (or pitch) like Buck Martinez…

• 19 Girardi just couldn’t help himself…

• 19 What was Joe Girardi thinking?

• 19 What was Tori Hunter thinking?

• 19 iPhone app: in-game strategy

• 19 Bias against non-english speakers in hockey

• 19 The 2009 Globe Gloves

• 19 Attendance Index, since 1969

• 19 What is more important in an LCS - keeping your ace starter’s pitch count down or saving your pen?

• 18 More foolishness from the “smart” ex-players and managers…

• 18 What was Izturis thinking?

• 16 There is rarely a game that goes by in the post-season where a manager doesn’t do something dumb

• 16 Reader question of the day: Cabrera v Garnder

• 16 How to succeed as a flyball pitcher

• 15 The apocalypse is upon us: an 18-yr old is negotiating with more than 1 team

• 15 I am going to tell you why managers like Francona do dumb things like IBB Hunter…

• 14 Book of Odds: Baseball

• 14 Neyer v MGL, take 2

• 14 Biggest surprise teams of 2007-2008

• 14 Nick Punto: backup or starter?

• 14 Joel Pineiro: from success to replacement-level to success

• 14 Setup for Forecast Evaluations

• 14 How a famous sportwriters (Verducci) can write an entire article composed of B.S. and get paid…

• 13 Sexy or sexist?

• 13 How many innings can an ace reliever pitcher and still be effective?

• 13 On paper, would Beimel have been a better option than Street, versus Howard?

• 13 The best- and worst- fielding catchers in baseball

• 13 What if Lidge were the worst closer on the face of the Earth?

• 12 Last call for the Fans Scouting Report

• 12 A note from the health industry:

• 12 Best teams, by age

• 12 The Sony marketing department: Rule of 4

• 12 Andy Pettitte v The Best

• 12 Most wins, 2000-2009

• 12 Third-base coach

• 11 Can anyone explain why Francona would walk Torii Hunter with runners on 2 and 3 to pitch to Vladdy?

• 11 Bob Brenley seems like a pretty smart guy and is a pretty good TV analyst (in my opinion), but…

• 10 MATHLETICS

• 10 FIP Primer

• 10 An AIDS vaccine trial and statistical significance

• 10 MIN/NYY picking on a nit

• 09 Psst… wanna work for, uh, some unnamed MLB team?

• 09 Clutch players of 2009

• 09 Theo Fleury

• 09 Help high school students

• 09 Reader question of the day

• 09 1975/76 Reds: Peaking in talent

• 09 Clutch skill DOES exist

• 08 What’s Matt Holliday’s problem?

• 08 4th down, on the 32 yard line: FG or punt: does it matter if it’s 4th and short or 4th and long

• 08 When it comes to baseball, all reason goes away

• 08 Does Molina instead of Posada make much difference?

• 08 STL/LAD game blunders

• 07 Dinara Safina

• 07 What are the chances that the Nats win the World Series, if they were already in the playoffs?

• 07 Most exciting games, quantified - discussions

• 07 Rob Neyer on Brad Lidge and the COL/PHI series

• 07 Nate McLouth v Joe Sheehan

• 06 A few observations from the DET/MIN game today…

• 06 Catcher’s strikeout rate

• 06 Poll: How certain do you want to be that your team will make the playoffs in 2010?

• 06 Poll Results: Most Outstanding Players of 2009

• 06 Best pitching seasons, last 11 years

• 06 Changing the playoff format

• 06 Walt Davis on Regression Toward the Mean

• 06 Blast from the past: Rob Wood’s Win Values

• 06 Incorporating guts into a forecast

• 05 Poll: Most Outstanding Players of 2009

• 03 IOC

• 02 Pitch sequencing with Mariano Rivera

• 01 The four faces of Arroyo