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2010

January, 2010

• 31 Bloomberg Tweets

• 31 Why do we need personal opinions about factual matters?

• 31 NFL WPA: who’s a hall of famer?

• 31 CBS Super bowl ads: best!al!ty in, g@y men out

• 30 Moneyball and Walks

• 30 Idea for a study…

• 29 Colin’s fielding metric, part 1

• 29 Insurance follies

• 29 Clustering exposes bias

• 28 PECOTA Standings

• 28 Sabermetric Library

• 28 Soccer-nomics

• 28 Is Scott Boras like Nolan Ryan?

• 28 Is TurboTax a mess?

• 28 Anti-virus software

• 28 Flood v Kuhn

• 28 Player in 1994 had a SLG 100 points higher than any other season in his career: admits to NO PED

• 28 The shorter the game, the more the upsets

• 28 WPA explained - football style

• 28 The Out Pitch

• 27 How much is a minor league system worth?

• 27 How to track a flyball

• 27 Great research, good questions, almost no answers: it’s the journey people

• 26 DH: Pro and Con

• 26 Handedness in the NHL

• 26 More optimistic fan forecasts

• 26 The visual talent pie

• 25 I agree with Bill James 100% on this one thing

• 25 What the Pirates owner is saying

• 25 How much to pay for a robot?

• 25 More time in the box than on the ice

• 25 History Learning Site

• 22 MLB really loves having unpaid writers cheerleading them

• 22 Regression toward the mean, chart style

• 22 How Do Pitchers Change Their Approach Against Good Hitters?

• 22 “…need to shut the f-ck up”

• 22 Looking for what makes a pitcher disproportionately better in relief

• 22 Blast-from-the-past: Solving DIPS

• 22 ICC or Intra Class Correlation

• 22 Torii v Sarge Jr

• 21 Adjusted Plus/Minus

• 21 This hour’s primer of the week: Win Shares

• 21 Today’s this week’s primer: wOBA

• 21 Sabermetric awards hub

• 21 Jack Z

• 21 Peak age in hockey

• 21 The more you see a pitch, the better you hit off that pitch

• 21 MLB Accounting

• 20 Padress off-season signings

• 20 Hardball Times Annual review

• 20 At what point during the season do teams play for the tie?

• 20 A saberist reviewing a paper of economists reviewing saberists

• 19 This week in primers: wOBA

• 19 How optimistic are fans?

• 19 Insuring player contracts

• 19 How much is a great farm system worth?

• 19 Preliminary look at the 2010 arbitration market

• 19 Intent to injure, away from the play

• 19 Peer review v internet debate

• 18 Decision-making charts

• 18 Tim Lincecum will submit the following offer:

• 18 Revising MORP

• 18 To onside or not

• 18 Sabermetric Awards: 1. Novel Research Project

• 18 Jay Leno is full of sh!t

• 18 Are Bill James forecasts optimistic?

• 18 Alan Nathan on the performance of bats

• 17 How is Steven Levitt as a prognosticator of baseball?

• 16 Keith Woolner on peak age

• 15 Should umpires end up being biased against pitchers with poor control?

• 15 Minor league fielding arms

• 15 How does a sim do in projecting team wins?

• 14 Reader mail: jeans

• 14 Today’s UZR Primer

• 14 Poll: The idea of having the Baseball Abstract Box Set (1977-88) makes me think…

• 14 Do speedsters peak earlier than power hitters?

• 14 Bill James’ Hall of Fame Stats Primer

• 14 Blengino’s stat of the week: WAR

• 14 Pitching over the course of a game

• 14 Supreme court to NFL: ha-ha

• 13 Mail: rWAR v fWAR

• 13 Trademarking “sabermetrics”?

• 13 My new best friend forever of the day

• 13 Mail: Separating starters from relievers

• 13 Don’t bet on baseball

• 13 James on McGwire via Maris

• 13 The Tomorrow Show

• 13 PED Timeline

• 13 FIP for your high school or college

• 13 UZR 101

• 13 Interactive MLB salary database

• 13 Beware accumulator bets on non-independent events

• 12 Baseball Research Journal

• 12 “Leading the discussion”

• 12 Marcel 2010

• 12 Blogger decries other blogger for not showing his numbers by… not showing his own numbers!

• 12 Bias among Holy Writers vis-a-vis WAR for the HOF

• 12 “I’m not sayin’… I’m just sayin‘“: The non-sabermetric sabermetric stance of the Phillies

• 12 BABIP Roundtable at BPro

• 12 MLB knew of McGwire’s steroid use in 1993

• 11 Yet another: fielding goes mainstream in front offices article

• 11 Counting bad goals

• 11 The catch-22 of USB ports

• 11 McGwire

• 11 Mattingly v Keith Hernandez

• 11 Pronouncing acronyms (especially wOBA)

• 11 Mariner Magazine with a sabermetric slant

• 11 BPro’s cover

• 11 Forecasters Challenge 2010 - Update 1

• 11 Craziness in the NHL

• 11 Scoring rates in the NHL, by time/differential

• 10 WAR and Projections vs. Salary

• 08 Poll: The ethics of BBWAA

• 08 The Ichiro interview

• 08 The Holy Writer removes his halo

• 08 The formula for not voting for Tim Raines

• 08 Updated to Raines30.com

• 08 SABR 399

• 08 Best hockey fights of the year

• 08 Montreal Expos, Forgotten by Many, Are Reuniting in Cooperstown

• 08 UZR Primer

• 08 “Taking the UZR Out Of Uzer Error”

• 07 Poll: Best pitcher performance by a mid-season acquisition

• 07 SABR 101 - PITCHf/x tools

• 07 Retrosheet volunteers

• 06 Who gives up the fewest bad intentional walks?

• 06 How to justify voting for a DH for the Hall

• 06 HOF 2010

• 06 Joe Cooter speaks

• 06 Jonah Keri on Tim Raines

• 06 Expos Timeline

• 06 Give a man a fishing rod, with Javier Vazquez as bait, and see what happens…

• 05 Lego-metrics

• 05 Park factors: Yankee3 v Citi

• 05 Hall of Merit

• 05 Masks: the man who created Lecter’s mask, also created Richter’s

• 05 The Sabermetric Awards

• 05 If you have UZR and TZ, should you EVER use FRAA?

• 04 Best players in baseball

• 04 NHL fighters

• 04 Non-stathead Chronicles - Bleed Cubbie Blue

• 04 The New BPro

• 04 Would you rather…

• 01 Fenway on ice