THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Sabermetrics

• " 'Hubris', my friend, is sneering at regression to the mean"
• "...need to shut the f-ck up"
• "Accuse us as we accuse them"
• "Acquiring Power Isn't More Valuable When a Team Has None"
• "An Examination of Ice Hockey Players' Imagery Use and Movement Imagery Ability"
• "Ask me next year"
• "Behind the Seams: The Pitching Paradigm" - Documentary about the evolution of pitching
• "Behind the Seams: The Stat Story" on MLB Network
• "Bridging The Great Baseball Analysis Divide"
• "But the goal should be a palatable balance between hitting and defense."
• "Can someone explain [blank] to me?"
• "Championship-caliber chemistry"
• "Clearly, wins is a flawed stat" -- Bert something-or-other
• "Defense, defense... git yer defense here!"
• "Don't make the 1st or 3rd out at third base" doesn't really mean, "Don't..."
• "Don't use regression to calculate Linear Weights"
• "Earning" a hold, while doing a horrible job
• "Everybody Loves Joe Posnanski"
• "Everyone has their own WAR"
• "F-ck curing cancer. I want to watch baseball."
• "Fagged out"
• "Fangraphs is now even awesomer"
• "Fans don't care"
• "Gamers"
• "Get me the hell out of Dodge!"
• "He won't be worth it in the last two years of his deal"
• "He's turned everything around and is finally the player he was supposed to be!"
• "I believe..."
• "I have worked in MLB and my experiences are..."
• "I just knew they were going to win"
• "I just know that I got lucky 27 times."
• "I was there"
• "I'm into sabermetrics" says Joel Skinner
• "I'm not sayin'... I'm just sayin'": The non-sabermetric sabermetric stance of the Phillies
• "If you can play, you can play"
• "If you're not tinkering and you're not thinking, you're going to end up stalling"
• "In the beginning, Bill James created Baseball Abstract..."
• "Jeter had a great year... for an old SS"
• "Joe Girardi, sabermetrician"
• "Judge The Performance, Not The Character"
• "Just Enough" Homeruns
• "Lack of Necessities of Blacks": the many layers of Campanis-speak
• "Leading the discussion"
• "Let's divide two!"
• "Look ma, no [ hands | glove | feet ]": Barenaked plays
• "Math scares people"
• "My Personal Path to Sabermetrics"
• "My problem is that the people evaluating statistics in sports are not experts in statistics."
• "My stats": Custom Dashboard
• "Never bunt"
• "Numbers Never Lie"
• "On pace to..."
• "OPS, I Did it Again"
• "Paradox": Expectation of being favored to win - vs - Expectation of winning
• "Powerful bombers just too tough for fightin' Phils to overcome"
• "Pre-selected common opponents" inspired tiebreaker for wild card team
• "Saberists dismiss those who disagree as ignorant dolts"
• "SABR is not sabermetrics"
• "Solving" fights in the NHL
• "Taking the UZR Out Of Uzer Error"
• "That was for Duane Kuiper"
• "The high fastball (out of the zone) is such a tough pitch to lay off of!"
• "The Moneyball revolution from someone who helped it happen"
• "The Most Interesting Statement I Read Today"
• "The Pedro I know"
• "The problems with..."
• "The worst player you'd accept to give up Joe Giradi"
• "This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs."
• "Those are the little things that I don't think you can see in the box score, ever."
• "Tie goes to the runner"
• "True" aging patterns
• "What do you think about James's new method of evaluating teams on paper?"
• "When you step on that field there's a promise that you make with everybody else: Slide or avoid."
• "Why Baseball Info Solutions pitch location data is the best in the industry"
• "Why in my day..."
• "Why is Jermaine Dye looking for work?"
• "WPA is not perfect"
• #bip
• 'Powerful bombers just too tough for fightin' Phils to overcome'
• (Future GM) Antonetti on Hafner
• (Limited) Career Leverage Index
• (Personification of) Stats responds
• (recent) Historical WAR on Fangraphs
• (Sabermetric) Book-of-the-Quarter
• ... and he provides leadership!
• 09 defensive projections from Chone
• 10 athletes die of steroids
• 100 pitches, 5 innings, 5 walks, batter is at 3-0: what do you do?
• 100% certainty
• 15 Year Hockey Deal
• 1500 unread Readers
• 1975/76 Reds: Peaking in talent
• 1980s Baseball Cards
• 1994 Expos
• 2.5 mph = .025 K per PA = 0.25 ERA
• 2007 Fans' Scouting Report - Final
• 2007 Fans' Scouting Report - Results
• 2007 NL MVP
• 2008 MLEs
• 2009 Baseball Preview Books
• 2010 Community Playing Time Forecast - final update
• 2010 Community Playing Time Forecast - update #2
• 2011 Hall of Fame ballot - Mock Up
• 2011 WS discussion: Game 4
• 2011 WS discussion: Game 5
• 25 wins for Halladay?
• 2B and 3B
• 2B v 3B
• 2B v 3B
• 2B v 3B v CF
• 3 strikeouts, or one HR?
• 3'2" pinch hitters
• 4 questions about a hypothetical pitcher...
• 40-man roster rules
• 4th down, on the 32 yard line: FG or punt: does it matter if it's 4th and short or 4th and long
• 60 Minutes Piece on Bill James
• 62 to go
• 7-2 plus .481 equals .500
• 92 million dollars? No, 7.45... take it or leave it. I'll take it!
• A (simple and easy) test for Joe Maddon
• A backdoor way to expansion
• A call to arms, by Will Carroll
• A couple of questions for fantasy baseball players...
• A different way to value Jeter
• A fascinating study, worthy of some discussion I think...
• A FAT team
• A few observations from the DET/MIN game today...
• A gift subscription to A Page from Baseball's Past
• A glaring example of how NOT to use a regression analysis
• A Good Intentional Walk Day
• A great description and analysis of a gutless, bone-headed move or non-move by Yost
• A great interview with an athlete
• A great online chat with the new Astros GM!
• A great short term streak
• A long PA has an adverse effect on the next batter?
• A new boxscore
• A new thread on the "hot hand" for starting pitchers during a game...
• A new way of showing forecast results
• A perfect use of WPA
• A pitch that no MLB pitcher is capable of executing
• A pitcher's stuff
• A player after my own heart!
• A quiz for managers and GM's...
• A really good analysis of a trade (CC to the Brewers)
• A really good primer on TJ surgery
• A run is a run is a run?
• A saberist reviewing a paper of economists reviewing saberists
• A sensible approach to cold April days
• A simple way for teams to come up with proper stealing strategies
• A single person can't set a good line
• A skill that does not improve generationally
• A Sober Buzz Bizz
• A teachable moment: regression toward the mean; true talent levels
• A typical first-overall pick is... Phil Nevin
• A very good article by Sky A. on batter tendencies (ability to hit the fastball, curve, etc.)
• A very good FAQ on the Plus/Minus defensive system...
• A very good interview with Bill James, by Geoff Baker, the Seattle writer
• A Warning from MGL!!
• A word on batting orders
• A word on RBIs
• A word on slightly adjusting the Verducci Effect parameters
• A writer against The Holy Writers
• A writer who understands odds!
• ABSO-lutely... not!
• Abusing z-scores
• Academic Paper: Assessment of free agency on player performance
• Academic referees
• Academics need to know about Angel Hernandez
• According to Christopher Gasper of Boston.com, HR is a crappy stat
• Accounting for runs allowed
• Accu-weather is on the case of Yankee Stadium
• Accu-weather is on the case of Yankee Stadium, part 2
• Ace reliever or starter in the 9th?
• Ace relievers
• Ace versus elite closer, 4th time through the order...
• Aceves, Joba, Hughes: who to start? It doesn't matter!
• Active career leaders in WAR
• Actual Wins, Retrosheet Years
• Actuarial tables for injuries?
• Adam Jones said "UZR" and "wOBA"
• Adam: Dunn and out?
• Additive park factors
• Adjusted Plus/Minus
• Adjusting College Stats
• Adrian Beltre
• Adrian Beltre and walk years
• Adrian Beltre, Unlucky or Just Not That Good?
• Adrian Gonzalez luxury-tax loophole
• Advisory non-binding legal opinion
• Afterlife of GM
• Age Restrictions of the Draft
• Aggregate Fielding Runs
• Aging Curves for Fastball Speeds
• Aging curves, various categories
• Aging patterns, for college players
• Ah, so we meet again
• AJ Burnett?
• AJ, relief pitcher?
• AL 2010 Cy Young, sabermetric-style
• AL v. NL in 2011
• AL/NL disparity
• Alan Nathan and Greg Rybarczyk on humidors
• Alan Nathan at SABR40
• Alan Nathan on the performance of bats
• Alan Nathan's HR paper
• Alan Nathan's site
• Alan Nathan's Trajectory spreadsheet
• Alan Schwarz
• Albert Pujols
• Alert the news - I have something good to say about a manager
• Alex Anthopoulos
• Alexis Rios
• Alexis Rios: There are so many problems with this THT article, from a sabermetric perspective...
• All about the Holy Writers
• All About Voros
• All f/x all the time
• All Hail Fangraphs!
• All Rob Neyer, All the time
• All the fielding systems
• All WAR, all the time
• All you need is 4 or 5 pitchers
• All-Star Game: Begone!
• All-Time Franchise Team
• All-you-can-eat ballparks
• Allan Roth, saberist pioneer
• Almost Padres Tim Raines
• Almost time to stop the ESPN hate?
• Alternating v Randomizing
• Alvarez
• Amazon Referral System
• America giveth and America restricteth
• America, 2010
• Among the best players of their sport, are NBA players the most underpaid?
• Amount of energy to hit a HR in each ballpark
• Amount of regression: Here is an interesting question having to do with one of the other threads...
• Amphetamines
• An inside changeup?
• An interview the way a saberist would conduct it
• Analytics Conference
• Analyzing Ken Davidoff's power to predict the near future
• Analyzing Manager Moves with THE BOOK
• Analyzing recent arbitration awards
• Analyzing the Fans' Scouting Report: Arms
• Anatomy of a pitcher who throws real hard and has good stuff...
• Anatomy of baserunning in Anaheim
• And another star athlete admits he might have taken PED
• And another thing Studes didn't know...
• And in these corners...
• And in this corner...
• And more on positional adjustments
• And Pete Rose was kicked out of baseball (why Charlie Manuel is the worst manager in baseball)?
• And the first rule of Baseball Club is You don't talk about Baseball Club
• And the nine best baseball movies are...
• And yet another WPA site
• And yet more HR derby hangover effects
• And You Think I'm Snark?: Tango Interview
• And you think your manager is a bad strategist?
• And, he wan't even heatlhy this year...
• Andre Dawson - HOF Worthy?
• Andre Dawson and the OBP
• Andre The Hawk Dawson speaks
• Andrew Gelman on Pete Palmer
• Andrew Gelman on Statistics and Bill James
• Andrew Miller's Poison Pill
• Andrew Zimbalist
• Andy Pettitte
• Andy Pettitte v The Best
• Angels into sabermetrics?
• Another Aging Study
• Another article about when current season stats become "real" (or something like that)
• Another article by Eric Walker with which I have some disagreements (imagine that!)
• Another article I have a problem with...
• Another budding pitch f/x star...
• Another career baseball guy who doesn't have a clue about things...
• Another example of the bias in OPS
• Another nail in the Hot Hand coffin
• Another open letter to Murray Chass
• Another pitch count limit article
• Another pitch f/x article
• Another R primer
• Another SABR course
• Another Stat of the Week
• Another stat symposium
• Another year, another Tim Raines plea
• Anthony Perkins' basement
• Applying The Book on Managers' IBB
• Aramis Ramirez
• Aramis Ramirez: a new approach to hitting?
• Arbitration and bias
• Arbitration rule: 40/60/80
• Archives: Component Regression
• Are all these strikeouts your kind of baseball?
• Are approaches against rookies changing during the year?
• Are Bill James forecasts optimistic?
• Are bullpen sessions predictive?
• Are byes good... or bad?
• Are closers overpaid?
• Are Consistent Batters Easier to Project than Inconsistent Ones?
• Are fly ball pitchers at a disadvantage in a hitters park, especially one with a high HR factor?
• Are forecasting systems useless?
• Are girls being treated as second-class sports citizens?
• Are GMs as clueless as Boras implies?
• Are hit batters an inevitability of pitching?
• Are home teams cheating this year?
• Are in-season PECOTA's reliable?
• Are leadoff hitters overvalued?
• Are Mets' Nick Evans and Ruben Tejada "all that" as fielders?
• Are my WAR aging numbers not aggressive enough?
• Are players aware of how often they chase pitches?
• Are relievers being used optimally, compared to 1980?
• Are slot bonuses like the speed limits on banks: warning only?
• Are systems too optimistic in forecasting star pitchers?
• Are the data and results reported in Scorecasting accurate?
• Are the Yankees trying to hit more fly balls?
• Are there clutch goalies?
• Are there neurotic athletes?
• Are these any different?
• Are TV broadcasters lazy?
• Are umpires behind the decreased run environment?
• Are you kidding me?
• Are you looking for work in MLB?
• Arena wars
• Argument 101 fail
• Aristotle, Casablanca, and Win Probability?
• Arneson: Moneyball, cliche, irony, Brown
• ARoid
• Article by JC in the Huffington Post
• Article for THT Annual 2011
• Article of the Week
• Article on ESPN Insider
• Artist v Scientist
• As the Redsox Turn
• Assorted links
• Astros hire Mike Fast
• At what point will baseball prospects leave baseball?
• At what point would you prefer road stats only?
• At-Counts
• Attendance 1969-1997, 1998-2004
• Attendance and Ticket Prices
• Attendance and winning
• Attendance base for each team
• Attendance Index, since 1969
• Attendance is down
• Attendance Timeline adjustments
• Attribution v Actuality
• Aubrey Huff at 3B?
• Avant garde from the mainstream
• Average age of MLB ballparks
• Average duration of game
• Average Payroll per Position
• Average pitch location
• Avoid listening to any one person's observations
• Avoiding the double play
• Awards schmawards
• Axe bat
• B-R.com now has Win Probability
• B-R.com's updated park factors
• Babe Ruth complained to his manager about being expected to both pitch and play regularly in the fie
• Babe Ruth was a strikeout king
• Babe Ruths are playing in Baltimore
• BABIP and shifts
• BABIP by count, applied to pitchers' frequencies
• BABIP estimators
• BABIP MLEs
• BABIP primer
• BABIP reader post of the day
• BABIP Roundtable at BPro
• BABIP video
• BABIP, in April, year by year
• Baby Bells
• Backlash against blogger's stance on service time
• Backwards pitcher
• Bad Running
• Bad statistics
• Baker and PAP
• Balanced Playoff Hope
• Ballad of Bill James
• Ballparks
• Ballparks Database - now online!
• Banner Years
• Banner Years, Reverse Banner Years: Batter Walks
• Banning spit (smokeless) tobacco
• Banning teams
• Bannister: the greatest saberist spokesperson ever
• Barry Alomar v Roberto Larkin = Lou Trammell v Alan Whitaker
• Barry Bonds convinction of rambling for 75 seconds before telling the truth: upheld
• Barry Bonds Sentenced to 15 Years... Of Hall of Fame Discussions by Holy Writers
• Barry Bonds, Bill James, and me
• Barry Code
• Bartering tickets
• Base Out Ratios: The Mother of all Reinventions
• Base running lwts
• Base/Out and Run Frequency
• Baseball Abstract, 1983
• Baseball America on 17yr old Felix
• Baseball America Top 100 list
• Baseball Analysis, 100 years ago
• Baseball Board Games
• Baseball Cards
• Baseball Cards: sacrifice quality for price please
• Baseball CD
• Baseball comportment
• Baseball Families
• Baseball Guides
• Baseball Guts, part 2
• Baseball ID Mapping File: updated daily
• Baseball Idol
• Baseball International Draft: Puerto Rico
• Baseball is about driving the first good pitch you see, not waiting to get into a hitter's count
• Baseball is not all of sports
• Baseball Jeopardy
• Baseball lemons
• Baseball Lexicon
• Baseball Mortality Table
• Baseball Mythbusters
• Baseball Niners
• Baseball perfect at age 10
• Baseball Players golfing
• Baseball ProGUESTus
• Baseball ProGUESTus: answers (part 1)
• Baseball Prospects
• Baseball Prospectus and Sabermetrics
• Baseball Prospectus free for all, for now
• Baseball Prospectus is dead.
• Baseball Prospectus Minor League Translations
• Baseball Prospectus readers know what they are doing
• Baseball Prospectus' WARP1 is wrong
• Baseball Puzzles
• Baseball Reference boarding the Leverage and WPA train
• Baseball Reference does it all
• Baseball Research Journal
• Baseball Seminar
• Baseball Simulation Games
• Baseball simulators in the front offices
• Baseball Steroids website
• Baseball Thesis
• Baseball's version of American Idol
• Baseball, a metaphor for... Congress?
• Baseball-Reference forecasts using Marcel
• Baseclogging
• Baseclogging
• Baserunning
• Baserunning and its dependence on...
• Baserunning path
• BaseRuns, Linear Weights, Runs Created
• BaseRuns, Patriot Virtual Handoff to SABRMatt
• BaseRuns-ized SIERA
• Bases per PA, part 2
• Bases, Outs by Event
• Basestealing by breakeven point
• Basic Aging Curve for Hitters, 1957-2006
• Basic Strategy: baserunning with 0 outs
• Basic wOBA?
• Basketball Players League
• Bat speed v pitch speed
• BATS, PUCKS
• Batted Ball 2008
• Batted Ball Breakdown
• Batted ball data: good or bad?
• Batted Ball DIPS
• Batted ball distance of Ortiz is way way down
• Batted Ball FIP
• Batted Ball FIP chart
• Batted Ball Luck
• Batted Ball Puzzler
• Batted Ball Splits
• Batted Balls and Home Runs
• Batted Balls at Fenway Park
• Batted Balls: BIS v MLBAM
• Batter approach based on quality of pitcher
• Batter on Deck
• Batter Order philosophy... from a century ago
• Batter Pitcher Matchups
• Batter-pitcher i[Apple] app
• Batter-pitcher matchup adjustments
• Batter-pitcher matchups
• Batting Approach Philosophy by Marlon Byrd
• Batting eye and selectivity
• Batting eye on 2-strike counts
• Batting Order and the pitcher
• Batting Order for Redsox 2011
• Batting Order for the Padres
• Batting Order in the mainstream
• Batting Order Lineup Tool
• Batting orders: fix what's broken
• Batting the pitcher 8th?
• Battle of the HR Steroid Theory
• Bautista randomly drug tested 16 times?
• Bay, Ramirez, WPA
• Bayes = Regression Toward The Mean: proof
• Bayes and regression, again
• Bayes history
• Bayes hit batter
• Bayes is Regression Toward The Mean
• Bayes Theorem Illustrated
• Bayes' Theorem
• Bayes, Marcel, Academics, Phil, back-and-forth discussion... this one has it all!
• bbFIP and kwERA data for 2010: Felix v Weaver
• BBWAA and Michael Young
• BBWAA v IBA
• BBWAA votes: #1 ERA, #2 W/L, #3 CG
• BBWAA votes: #1 ERA, #2 W/L, #3 FIP
• BBWAA votes: #1 ERA, #2 W/L, #3 IP
• BDB Database
• BDB Database (MS Access)
• Be Jolly stats users
• Be Like Aaron
• BE Press
• BE Press (Vol 5, Iss 2)
• BE Press's latest
• Before you have an opinion on Scott Boras' claims:
• Behind the scenes in trading
• Being a sabermetrician
• Being behind is a good thing?
• Beisbol Data
• Belated congratulations to Dan Uggla's impressive summer performance!
• Ben Baumer
• Ben Zobrist, typical adult worker
• Best 12 Years
• Best 2-strike hitters
• Best 32 MLB players in 2011
• Best Age 22-26 WAR (Rookies)
• Best and Worst Clutch Hitters of the Retrosheet era
• Best and worst moves by a GM
• Best and Worst of 2007 UZR
• Best and worst transaction of the decade
• Best Birth Years
• Best case FOR Jack Morris in HOF
• Best Eligible Players, Not in the Hall of Fame (Win Shares)
• Best experience at an MLB park, according to Yelp readers
• Best Fastballs in Baseball
• Best free agents in 2011 for under one million$?
• Best Goalie in the last 60 years
• Best media campaigns of the year, in the world of sports
• Best MopUp guy in 2008
• Best non-closer season among relievers? How about two of them... this year!
• Best OF arms, 2008
• Best of BPro Vol I and II
• Best performances of 2008
• Best performances of 2008, as of today
• Best performing players so far
• Best PITCHf/x pitchers of 2009
• Best pitching seasons, last 11 years
• Best Player not on Chain Game
• Best Players born 1961-1970
• Best players in baseball
• Best Players Not in HOF
• Best Players of the 2000-09 decade
• Best pre-free agency contracts that buy out free agency years
• Best Shape Of My Life (BSOML) study
• Best short interview (with a baseball player) I've read in a long time
• Best Stadiums you've been to
• Best Super 2 in arbitration ever?
• Best teams, by age
• Best Three-Season Groups, since the time of Willie and Mickey, by age
• Best to worst team nickcnames
• Best UZR, 2003-mid07
• Best WAR by Birth Decade
• Best WAR by decade - pitchers
• Best X of the decade
• Best, worst WOWY since 1993, through age 34
• Best-fielding 1B over the last 3 years
• Best-fit equations for component aging curves
• Betancourt and the Fans Scouting Report
• Better Batter Baseball
• Better Know a Blogger: Rally
• Betting on Baseball
• Betting the over/under by umpire
• Betting with NJ professor
• Beware of self-proclaimed experts
• Beyond wins and losses: incorporating score differential
• Bias against non-english speakers in hockey
• Bias among Holy Writers vis-a-vis WAR for the HOF
• Bias by batting hand
• Bias discussion
• Bias in Marcel
• Bias in PITCHf/x?
• Biggest bust in sports?
• Biggest surprise teams of 2007-2008
• Biill James and Steroids
• Bill James and massive expansion
• Bill James Baseball Analyst archives
• Bill James Baseball IQ app
• Bill James being Bill James
• Bill James does positional adjustments
• Bill James Goldmine 2009
• Bill James Historical Abstract - the first one
• Bill James in Baseball Digest, 1970s
• Bill James nuggets
• Bill James on NPR
• Bill James Online
• Bill James Q&A
• Bill James site updated
• Bill James speaks
• Bill James talks to Freakonomics readers
• Bill James to be on Stephen Colbert on May 5!
• Bill James Tracers: On Bill James
• Bill James turns Win Shares into Wins above replacement (WAR)
• Bill James' Hall of Fame Stats Primer
• Bill James' New Book, "The Bill James Gold Mine 2008" (edited)
• Bill James' The Attribution Problem
• Bill James, Online
• Bill James, Sabermetrics, and The Science Channel
• Bill James, Stephen Colbert, tonight
• Bill Simmons interviews Bill James
• Bill Werber
• Bill White, admitted drug user.... and who cares anyway?
• Billiards baseball
• Billy Beane
• BIP Spray Chart application
• Birth of Bloomberg Sports
• BIS at THT
• BIS bias, Bizz Buzz
• BIS fielding article submissions
• BIS Fielding Data
• BIS v PITCHf/x
• Black Widow and Phoenix
• Blackjack
• Blackjack Statisicians
• Blackout
• Blackout
• Blast from the Past: Leverage Index Primer
• Blast from the Past: Pitchers as starters and relievers
• Blast from the past: Rob Wood's Win Values
• Blast From the Past: Sim Scores
• Blast from the past: The argument for subtracting HR in Runs Produced
• Blast from the past: UZR
• Blast-from-the-past: Pitching components
• Bleg: rest-of-season forecasts
• Bleg: who had Tommy John?
• Blengino's stat of the week: WAR
• Blog post of the day
• Blogger Chass on the NY Times reporting of the Picard/Mets case
• Blogger gets into a professional writer's association
• Blogger Murray Chass continues to bang the service time drum
• Blogger of the year
• Blogger v Media
• Blogger v WADA
• Bloggers 1000, Holy Writers 0
• Bloggers all over the service-time issue
• Blogging: "The noblest of daily habits"
• Blogosphere Question of the Day, 06/24; OR Why should OPS die?
• Bloomberg Baseball Technology
• Bloomberg Sports + Fox broadcast
• Bloomberg Sports Blog
• Bloomberg Tweets
• Bloomberg's Sports Pitch Review
• Blyleven Was Not Clutch
• Bob Brenley seems like a pretty smart guy and is a pretty good TV analyst (in my opinion), but...
• Bob Costas, journalist
• Bob Geren reads The Book
• Bobby Jenks v Kyle Farnsworth
• Bobby V and SaberM!
• Bobby V. IV
• Bonds and Griffey
• Bonds gets 30 days home confinement for the crime of taking too long to answer
• Bonds is a b!tch?
• Bonds: 762
• Book clubs
• Book of Odds: Baseball
• Book Review: The Beauty of Short Hops…
• Book reviews
• Book Reviews
• Book Season: Bill James Gold Mine
• Book season: Fangraphs integrates their PDF with your online account
• Boring math stuff not worthy of a blog post
• Born-again
• Boston Analytics World
• Bottom of 9th: if you are not the tie-ing run, then don't try to steal third base
• Bourjos
• Bowie Bonds? How about Bowie Options
• Box score statistics are the RBIs of basketball
• Boycotting Dorchester Books
• Boys as smart as girls, but boys more likely to be at the smart (and stupid) end?
• BP 2011
• BP2012
• BPro 2009 comments
• BPro 2010
• BPro 2011 Review and/or Discussion
• BPro archives free
• BPro expands
• BPro gift giving
• BPro glossary
• BPro Idol
• BPro Reader mail of the day: regression toward the mean
• BPro Reader mail of the day: regression toward the mean, part 2
• BPro readers votes: #1 not sabermetrics, #2 sabermetrics
• BPro rolls out comments
• BPro's cover
• BPro/ESPN - Rookie hitters
• BR.com Play Index
• Brad Lidge
• Braden's screwball
• Bradley in/out strike zone
• Brady Anderson
• Brainstorming PITCHf/x questions
• Branch Rickey
• Brandon Inge
• Brandon McCarthy on feeling like an a$$
• Brandon Morrow: I’d rather look at the nerd stats
• Braves and Mariners
• Braves stats and scouts
• Breach of Contract Letter To Potomac Books
• Break between innings
• Break v Movement
• Breakeven point of Starter-Relief conversion
• Breaking even on stealing
• Breaking Pitches
• Breaking report: drug use by athletes
• Breaking up pitching data into batted ball and non-batted ball
• Breakout boys?
• Breathless claims of new home field advantage discoveries? Take a deep breath because...
• Brendan Ryan, student of fielding
• Brewers sabermetrician
• Brewers, Bush: What DO teams use to evaluate pitchers?
• Brian Bannister experiment
• Brian Bannister keeps talking, we keep listening
• Brian Bannister speaks "FIP"
• Brian Bannister speaks saberistically
• Brian Bannister was wrong, we need to get back to our basements, according to Bob Costas
• Brian Bannister, Hardball Times, and FIP
• Brian Giles
• Brian Kenny
• Brian Shouse
• Bridging the Statistical Gap
• Bronson Arroyo
• Bronson Arroyo speaks
• Bronx Parking
• Brooks Robinson saber tracer
• Brooks... Doctor Brooks
• BrooksBaseball/Pavlidis to integrate with BPro
• Brothers stealing
• Bruce Bochy
• Bruce Dowbiggin is wrong
• Bryan Smith
• Bryce Harper's makeup
• BtB Sabermetric Writing Awards Results: Best Researcher or Writer
• Budgets
• Buehrle
• Building a retrosheet database
• Bullpen Shutdowns and Meltdowns (S&M)
• Bunting against great pitchers
• Bunting against Wakefield
• Bunting and game theory (this is really interesting stuff)
• Bunting for a hit
• Bunting in a high-run, and poor-fielding, environment
• Bunting pitches high in the strike zone
• Bunting with Granderson
• Bunting with the pitcher due up in the inning
• Bunts, bunts, bunts
• Bunts, bunts, bunts
• Buscones
• Buscones enablers
• Business of Sports
• But what an infielder have made the out?
• But wOBA can't handle {blank}
• Buy The Book, BPro's BBTN, JC's Economist for $29, free shipping
• Buyout options... before you work!
• Buyouts
• Buzz blogs Moneyball
• By The Numbers
• By The Numbers
• By The Numbers, new issue
• Cablevision v Fox
• Cain v Shields, part 2
• Cake-cutting solution to NFL O/T
• Calculating the Elias rankings
• Calgary Redsox
• Calibration caution
• Call out: Fantasy league participants
• Can a closer be effective throwing 89 mph fastballs only?
• Can a former GM possibly be THAT dumb?
• Can anyone explain why Francona would walk Torii Hunter with runners on 2 and 3 to pitch to Vladdy?
• Can fans evaluate fielders, without a position bias?
• Can I choose door #3?
• Can it be correct to take on a 3-2 count?
• Can someone tell me why Trevor Hoffman is still allowed to pitch?
• Can this be right?
• Can you be a manager in MLB?
• Can you walk off the island?
• Canadians: clean and boring
• Cap Anson - all-time great?
• Capitalism, unless I'm unduly affected.. then it's socialism
• Captain Dunsel
• Capuano f/x
• Card collecting
• Cardinals 2011 batting lineup by The Book
• Career DIPS numbers
• Career Path of Keith Woolner
• Career post-season WPA
• Career W/L record... for position players
• Career WAR based on draft pick
• Carl Bialik meet: featuring The Poz
• Carlos Marmol
• Carlos Zambrano
• Case for Shutdowns, Meltdowns
• Casey Kotchman line
• Cashing in your chips?
• Catcher aging and Yadier Molina
• Catcher Blocks
• Catcher defense
• Catcher defense
• Catcher defense, 2010
• Catcher Framing Skill
• Catcher Framing Skill, part next
• Catcher Framing Skill, part WOWY
• Catcher impact on pitcher RA9 (or ERA)
• Catcher interference skill
• Catcher runs
• Catcher Spotting
• Catcher WOWY
• Catcher's strikeout rate
• CatcherF/X
• CBA cap pool rules
• CBA: Are the Cardinals a small-market team?
• CBA: changing landscape of compensation rules
• CBA: draft lottery
• CBA: How much signing bonus pool should each team be allocated?
• CBA: what's new
• CBS News now on the GPS bandwagon
• CC, efficient pitcher
• CC, the reliever?
• ceteris paribus
• CF talent
• Chad Billingsley, saberist: "...there’s a lot of luck involved"
• Chadiwck Award: The Historians Hall of Fame
• Challenging Nate Silver (and all other forecasters)
• Championship Leverage Index
• Chance after chance after chance
• Chance of injury by playing out-of-position
• Chance of making playoffs, based on payroll
• Chance of Scoring by Base/Out, Retrosheet Years
• Chance of scoring from any base/out
• Chance of winning back-to-back games
• Chance v Skill
• Change in batter/pitcher approaches through the Retrosheet years
• Change in fastball speed by count
• Change in fastball velocity by going from starter to reliever
• Change in number of pitches thrown
• Change in Offense, in Graph Form
• Change in performance as the game goes on
• Change in true talent level, by score
• Changes in home run rates during the Retrosheet years
• Changes on the fly
• Changeup at 93mph
• Changeup pitchers harder to hit
• Changing bats
• Changing batting approach in new parks
• Changing style of play based on score
• Changing the plane of a hitter's swing
• Changing the playoff format
• Changing the qualities of players
• Changing WPA to credit reaching base and eventually scoring
• Changng "stuff" by number of pitches thrown
• Channeling your inner Leverage Index
• Chase Utley: SB wizard?
• Chass v ESPN
• Chastising Tango
• Chat with Pete Palmer
• Cheating v sportsmanship
• Cheers
• Chemistry
• Cherry picking quiz...
• Chico Harlan
• Chief Wahoo
• Child prodigies
• Chipper Delgado
• Chipper Jones and the first-pitch strike
• Chipper Jones, sabermetrician
• Chipper: does not compute
• Chips in Balls
• Choke effect in soccer
• Choking soccer kickers
• Chone has its own site
• CHONE team forecasts
• CHONE v Fans
• Chone v2.0 - adding objective scouting data
• Chris Carpenter: money on the table?
• Christina Kahrl: "Why use wOBA when EqA's testably more accurate?"
• Christy Mathewson was a sabermetrician
• Chrome (google browser) extension for searching baseball sites
• CJ on the no-Mo effect
• Classic case of Ump-said, Coach-said
• Classifying pitches
• Classifying Pitches
• Clay Davenport's data site
• Clay Davenport: replacement-level is.... .350 win%, not .150 win%?
• Clay full-time at BPro
• Clay's housekeeping
• Clemens recording
• Clemens: Bads85 v Olbermann
• Cliff Lee
• Cliff Lee
• Cliff Lee 2008-present
• Cliff Lee v CC: This is a very good article.
• Cliff Lee's historic K/BB pace
• Cliff Lee's hot start: You wanted crap/yap from a premium writer....
• Cliff Lee: PITCHf/x
• Clint Hurdle, saber-appreciating?
• Club Head Speed
• Clubhouse Confidential
• Clubhouse Confidential - Glossary
• Clustering and pitch/fx
• Clustering exposes bias
• Clustering pitches
• Clutch (and other) project(s) redux
• Clutch analogy
• Clutch Pitching
• Clutch players of 2009
• Clutch skill DOES exist
• Clutch: Jeter v ARod
• Clutchiest Clutchy Players: Ortiz or Pujols?
• Clutching onto Bill James
• Coasting and rising to the occasion
• Code inspections
• Colby Rasmus has a .234 BABIP in June... and he knows it!
• Cold war is over
• Cole Hamels' BABIP
• Cole v Bryce
• Colin full-time at BPro
• Colin tackles JC's MRP model
• Colin's fielding metric, part 1
• College baseball HR to drop substantially
• College bat impact
• College bats
• College Data
• College data
• College flychasers
• College performance against future pros
• College splits by draftee / non-draftee opponents
• College to minors translation
• Collusion in MLB?
• Colorado Park Factor
• Comeback
• Comic
• COMMANDf/x
• Common-sense approach to explaining that 10 runs is one win
• Community Forecast, 2007 - Pitcher Results
• Community Forecast, 2007 - Preliminary Results
• Community Forecasts
• Community Forecasts
• Community Forecasts
• Community Forecasts - Playing Time
• Community Forecasts - Playing Time
• Community Playing Time Forecast - Balloting to close tomorrow night
• Community Playing Time Forecast 2011
• Community Playing Time Forecasts 2010 - last call
• Community Playing Time Forecasts 2011 - Last Call
• Community Playing Time Forecasts 2012: Ballots are now open!
• Community/Obama Forecast - NCAA Bracket
• Competing clauses in the CBA
• Competing On Payroll
• Competition committees
• Competitive advantage for the Giants with FIELDf/x?
• Competitive balance across leagues
• Compiled list of prospects
• Complete Baseball Database
• Complete Linear Weights, 2008
• Complete PITCHf/x classification
• Complete Run Expectancy, Retrosheet Years
• Complete WAR, 2008
• Component runs allowed (BaseRuns for pitchers)
• Component-Marcel
• Compounding effects of the home-site advantage
• Computer v Human Umpires
• Computing Youkilis
• Conceding a game
• Conference imbalance in MLB and NHL
• Confidence Intervals for the Pythagorean Formula in Baseball
• Confirmation Bias
• Confirming validity of Shutdowns, Meltdowns
• Confused about WAR
• Congrats to Sean Forman
• Congratulations to the Most Valuable Canadian in MLB!
• Congress elects Ron Santo to HOF
• Considerations of the batter-pitcher matchup, if you are writing a simulator
• Consistency is better than inconsistency?
• Consistency value
• Conspiracy and collusion
• Constructing a Uberstat
• Constructing fielding spectum values
• Contact Rate by Pitch Type
• Contemporaneous accounts of Jim Rice
• Continually fouling-off 3-2 pitches
• Contract albatrosses
• Contract Buyouts
• Contract crowd-sourcing
• Converting OBP (or wOBA) to Runs
• Converting PITCHf/x into performance stat lines
• Converting WPA into Wins and Losses
• Converting Zone Data
• Cool chart... now can someone explain the birds?
• Cool Standings
• Corey Koskie v Justin Morneau
• Corked bats and humans
• Cornell Bleg: Spatial Modeling of Fielding in Major League Baseball
• Correlating WPA to runs above replacement (hitters, pitchers)
• Correlation coefficient in football
• Correlation is not causation (no matter how much you want to use regression to ignore otherwise)
• Correlation is not causation, example #756,874,127
• Correlation of hitting metrics
• Correlation of pitcher metrics: FIP strikes again
• Cory speaks!
• Cost of a free agent win in 2010 offseason
• Cot's Contracts Compensation Pages integrated with BPro
• Could honesty exist in team sports?
• Could it be correct to have a lefty pitcher pitch to a righty batter?
• Could Rob Dibble have been a comp for Strasburg?
• Counsancourt? Betansell?
• Count-component Linear Weights
• Courtesy votes
• Courting the HOF voters
• Cracking the scratch lottery code
• Craig Calcattera, and others who are not Craig
• Craig Wright
• Craig Wright on Dick Allen
• Craig Wright, Coors, and the Humidor
• Creating a Fielding System
• Creating the ideal draft system
• Criss-cross applesauce
• Critique on the Clutch study in The Book
• Cross-checking the data providers
• Crossover playoffs
• Crow 17
• Crowd has spoken: Crawford 5-6 yrs, 16-17MM a year
• Crowded 2016 Ballot
• Crowdsourcing broadcasters
• Crowdsourcing by an NHL team
• CSI baseball
• CSNPhilly.com cherry-picks to prove their point
• Cuba Stats
• Cuba-Canada relations
• Cubs 2011 lineup by The Book
• Currency exchange rates
• Current state of fielding Primer
• Curt Flood's rest of career
• Curt Schilling's new stat
• Curve v Slider
• Curveball as first pitch to start the game
• Curveball v Fastball
• Custom Win Values
• Customizable Heat Maps
• Cutter classification
• Cy Bayes
• Cy Young definition has... changed!
• Cy Young Odds
• Daily Illini
• Daily Patterns in PITCHf/x
• Daily reliever usage charts
• Dan Fox's Manny
• Dan Fox's MITT
• Dan Fox, SOSH, JD Drew, Batted Ball Charts
• Dan Gutman
• Dan Kantrovitz
• Dan Kantrovitz, ex-player, now scouting director of Cards
• Dan Uggla has a .345 AVG over the last 30 G: why does it matter that he had at least 1 H in each G?
• Daniel Bard, shutdowns and meltdowns (S & M)
• Danks or Garza? ToMAYto, ToMAHto?
• Danvenport Translations: Strasburg
• Dart system... for pitchers
• Data files for 2010 available now
• Data or analysts? How about creativity?
• Data or no data?
• Data processing course: CSC108H
• Data Quality of MLB.com's GameDay
• Data quality of PITCHf/x parks
• Data recorders fit square pegs into round holes
• Database Hacks
• Dave Allen meets Dave Cameron
• Dave Cameron
• Dave Cameron meets WSJ
• Dave van Horne: the voice of my childhood
• David Cone, saberist
• David Dejesus for Gold Glove?
• David Gassko versus THT Forecasting system
• David Ortiz, come on down! You are the next contestant of... The Outrage Is Phony!
• David Ortiz: The 2005 MVP
• David Price to the bullpen?
• David Samson
• David Schoenfield hates the Expos
• David v Goliath: Romeo Filip v MLB
• David Wright
• David Wright's swing zones
• Day to day Marcel
• Deadening balls
• Dean Oliver: Director of Production Analystics at ESPN
• Dean Stotz
• Dear Donald Fehr,
• Death of "The Faster Times"
• Debut and peak ages
• Decision-making charts
• Deconstructing Brian Bannister
• Deconstructing Equivalent Runs (EqR)
• Deconstructing Joe Sheehan's analysis of Game 6 of the ALCS
• Deconstructing the ARod walk
• Defending NCAA
• Defending the Werth deal
• Defense Spectrum
• Defensive Indifference
• Defensive Indifference with a 2-run lead and only 1 out
• Defensive Indifference: Strange thing in BOS/CIN game today
• Defensive Outfielders
• Definition of saberist
• Delaying JJ's service clock
• Delaying Strasburg worth 18MM$ to Nationals
• Delmon Young
• Demon computer in baseball
• Denard Span
• Denkinger's Law
• Denying the Black ballplayer
• Deprecate Runs Created in favor of BaseRuns
• Derek being Alex
• Derek Jeter 5th greatest fielding SS in the last 60 years
• Derek Jeter has 3,022 MLB hits so far
• Derek Jeter is a robot?
• Derek Jeter's on-field value
• Derek Jeter: God of all that is Clutch
• Derek Jeter: greatest career for a player at the SS position?
• Derek Jeter: History Told You So
• Deserved Leverage
• Detrending: when statisticians attack!
• Developing young pitchers
• Dewan responds
• Dewan's discovery
• Dewan's numbers now on Fangraphs
• DH advantage in the World Series?
• DH in the Hall of Fame
• DH, again
• DH: Pro and Con
• Diamond Mind articles
• Diamond Mind baseball + leading forecasting systems = standings
• DiamondView Composite graphs
• Diary of your "rolling the dice": does anyone give a f-ck (*)?
• Did BPro change their WARP calculation? Or, is Felix not a superstar pitcher?
• Did Cox make the right decisions in game 3?
• Did Jered Weaver sell himself short?
• Did Jon Heyman fail ECON 101 ?
• Did Lincecum make the best move?
• Did Reds SS shift their positioning with Cordero on the mound?
• Did the Padres get rid of Bochy because they are smart and he is not?
• Did the Phillies really get nailed with the Papelbon signing, in light of the new CBA?
• Did we get a bunch of good relievers this year?
• Did you hear the one about the lawyer, the scholarly publication, and the analyst?
• Difference between Papelbon and Madson
• Difference between someone who loves baseball and a Holy Writer?
• Differences in the uber stats
• Differing release points by pitch
• Differing standards for MLB and NFL regarding steroids
• Digitally expressing pitching grips
• Digitization of object movements in a baseball game
• Dilemna for cheats
• DIPS and BABIP
• DIPS and relievers
• DIPS, Regressing Sample Stats, and Projecting Players
• DIPS-based BaseRuns
• DIPS: nonpitchers as pitchers
• Dirk Hayhurst
• Dirk Hayhurst on Canadians
• DIRVA
• Disco Hayes: now vying for title of Sabermetric Player of the Year
• Disconnect between perception and reality (number 3,192)...
• Discussing HOF candidates
• Disincentive to fan riots
• Dissecting a mystery pitch
• Distributing excess wins and losses in Win Shares
• Distributing playoff money
• Distributions in sports
• Do 2B age worse than the typical position?
• Do ace relievers collapse faster than other pitchers?
• Do art collectors know art?
• Do Baseball Insiders Really Understand Baseball (and Statistics)?
• Do batters and pitchers who switch teams and/or leagues fare better or worse?
• Do Batters Swing Too Often in a Full Count?
• Do catchers call for more fastballs with a runner on first?
• Do character-guys age better?
• Do fielders with good range commit more errors?
• Do first_half/second_half splits mean anything?
• Do hard throwers perform better than expected than soft throwers?
• Do high-strikeout pitchers have longer careers?
• Do hitters and pitchers perform better during the day or at night?
• Do low-talent teams overspend on free agents?
• Do managers have much influence over their team's pythag o/u?
• Do minor league hitters with great BB:K ratio have a better chance at immediate success than others?
• Do MLB teams know how to treat their fans?
• Do PECOTA Percentiles make any sense? No!
• Do pitchers today have it better because of medicine and technology?
• Do pitchers who are hurting allow a higher BABIP?
• Do Players Stick Around With The Same Team?
• Do players who age well tend to continue to age well?
• Do players who sign with their own teams age better than those who don't?
• Do players with speed skills age better?
• Do power hitters see fewer fastballs in hitter's counts?
• Do relievers today perform better because they have shorter outings?
• Do relievers who win the lottery need to share their money?
• Do resigning teams know more?
• Do saber-groupies exist, and do they heckle?
• Do Speed, Pitching, and Defense get leveraged in a large park?
• Do speedsters peak earlier than power hitters?
• Do speedy outfielders (and those with good arms) save extra-base hits?
• Do teams need sabermetrics?
• Do Teams Overalue Pitchers with Bad Control but Good Stuff
• Do teams pay exponentially more for top-end talent?
• Do teams put the better fielder at 2B or 3B?
• Do teams really make a stronger push for players if they are in the mid-80 wins talent level?
• Do the best players in baseball tend to play "up the middle?"
• Do the Pittsburgh Pirates really want a salary cap?
• Do the Tigers have a 100% chance of making the playoffs?
• Do TV Commentators know even the most basic of correct strategies?
• Do TV commentators pay any attention to the game?
• Do Umpires Give Preferential Treatment To Some Players?
• Do Umpires Have Their Own Strike Zone?
• Do we want to know about peak years for HOF?
• Do you know how much Selig makes?
• Do you really want the best team to win the World Series?
• Do you walk a batter in extra innings with 2 outs to face the pitcher?
• Do you want to bet Rob Neyer?
• Do younger brothers outsteal the older ones?
• Doc Halladay: this month's "hey, a superstar generated random numbers, let's build a narrative!"
• Dodgers being Dodgers
• Dodgers' 95-67 record changed to 74-88 due to Manny PED violation
• Dodgers' win reversed because Mattingly did not attest to proper score!
• Does "value" mean "value to reaching the playoffs"?
• Does (one-year) UZR tell us exactly what happened?
• Does a balnced offense score more than an imbalanced one?
• Does a high-speed fastball-slider pitcher need a third pitch?
• Does a jump in 2nd half team performance mean something for next year?
• Does bad defense lead to pitchers having to throw more pitches?
• Does changing your pitch frequency lead to substantial change in results?
• Does Charlie Manuel know what he is doing?
• Does Clutch exist? Color me very impressed
• Does Dave Righetti influence the HR rates of his pitchers?
• Does driving out PEDs affect hitters disproportionately?
• Does Eric Hossmer play too close to the bag?
• Does ESPN alter their transcripts?
• Does experience matter for a closer?
• Does Greg Maddux get the outside of the plate?
• Does it make any sense for a player to be "untouchable?"
• Does it matter how you rest your guys?
• Does Jered Weaver leverage his home park in the day time?
• Does Jeter get favorable calls?
• Does Linear Weights out value undervalue Ichiro?
• Does MLB.com know how to classify pitches?
• Does Molina instead of Posada make much difference?
• Does money buy wins?
• Does Nelson Cruz ever take a direct route to the ball?
• Does NFL have more expenses relative to revenue than NBA and NHL?
• Does PAP work?
• Does Phil Hughes know what to do when starting in an 0-2 count?
• Does reliever over-use lead to poor subsequent performance?
• Does Sportsbook know about Strasburg's pitch count limit?
• Does Tony LaRussa hate MGL or Ron Shandler?
• Does Vegas know how to set the total runs over/under line?
• Dollars per win
• Dolphin Rankings
• Don't bet on baseball
• Don't leave the High School bonus, and go to college first
• Don't let the president / commissioner hand out the trophy
• Don't let us hit each other
• Don't like runs and earned runs? How about we invent pitcher wins?
• Don't look now ARod, but look who's overtaken you...
• Don't spent long-term on a goalie
• Don't use regression to calculate linear weights
• Donald Fehr
• Donald Fehr, the next head of the NHL union?
• Dontrelle "Lightning" Willis
• Doomed to repeat history
• Dose of reality
• Double Plays and Groundball Chances
• Double Steals
• Double Walk to replace IBB
• Doug Glanville explains the most important part, with a b.s. parenthetical response
• Doug Glanville, saberist (plus fielding alignments)
• DP skills and chills
• Draft Class 2005
• Draft Order
• Draft Order and Major League Pitching Performance...
• Draft pick compensation to replenish lost talent
• Draft Picks or Young Players?
• Draft picks... of MLB players
• Draft quality by GMs
• Draft WAR
• Drafting talent, and spending on free agents
• Drama Index
• Dramatic HR
• Dropoff in MLB talent from player to player
• Dual positions
• Dual Positions, using bUZR
• Dual-roled pitchers
• Dubious baseball ideas
• Ducks on Pond
• Dustin Pedroia
• Dwight Evans
• Dwight Evans v Jim Rice
• Dwight Evans: "I agree with WPA, Carbo's HR had more impact than Fisk's!"
• Dynamic ticket pricing
• Each team's best player not in the Hall of Fame
• Early Season Leverage
• Easy-to-use Forecasts
• Eclectic mailbag
• Economic structure to resolving a work stoppage
• Economics of Fantasy Valuation
• Economics of replacement level
• Economics of Sports Course: ECON 583
• Economists are just like regular fans when it comes to baseball
• Eddie Gaedel(e)
• Eddie Gaedele II
• Edgar
• Edgar: an all-time hitter
• Edmonds, and the decline against lefties
• Educating a fan on... reliever impact
• Effect of a 2-3 system compared to a 2-2-1 system
• Effect of foul area on strikeouts
• Effect of the HR derby
• Effective fastball-changeup combo
• Effects of concussions
• Either a horrible study or terrible journalism...
• El Jered
• El Jered's BABIP
• Elect-2 / Elect-3
• Elegant Simplicity of wOBA
• Elias Rankings
• Emma Span: #1
• Empirical Analysis of Bunting
• Enbserg now on satellite radio
• Enbserg on Game Theory
• Encroaching on your competitor's space
• End of labor peace in MLB in 5 years?
• End of year Sabermetric stats
• Ending the intentional walk, and breakeven profiles
• Ensberg is our champion
• Ensberg on etiquette
• Ensberg on Satellite Radio
• Ensberg v Hanley
• Ensberg v Ringolsby
• Ensberg's whereabouts
• Ensuring K-Rod's option does not vest, by trading him to a team with an established closer
• Epstein on online fielding stats
• EqA (TAv) coalescing around Linear Weights
• EqA renamed TAv (True Average)
• Era adjustments
• ERA+
• ERA, FIP, xFIP, tRA
• Eric Gagne
• Eric Nusbaum will earn our BBWAA ulcers
• Eric Van: Clutch Relieving
• Eric Walker on Sandy Alderson
• Escrows and 24% rollbacks
• ESPN BABIP Video
• ESPN Ombudsman heavily criticizes ESPN
• ESPN readers v ESPN readers
• ESPN tell-all book
• ESPN's Fan Satisfaction Rankings
• espnW
• espnW for hockey: CBC's WhileTheMenWatch.com
• espnW's sabermetric primer
• Established level of... small sample size?
• Establishing a batter-specific strike zone
• Estimating BABIP
• Estimating BABIP skill
• Estimating Groundball Rates, based on velocity, trajectory, movement, location
• Et tu, Harvard?
• Ethics in Baseball
• Evaluating a trade
• Evaluating catchers: Interesting series of studies by Dan Turkenkopf at Beyond the Box Score
• Evaluating Fielding Forecasts
• Evaluating forecasts... from 4 years ago
• Evaluating pitchers as a concept: average, replacement level, or just totals?
• Evaluating the 2007/08 Forecasting Systems
• Evaluating the 2008 Forecasting Systems
• Evaluating the 2009 forecasts - Chone/ZiPS + Fantistics win
• Evaluating the team forecasts so far
• Evaluating the trades of Neal Huntington
• Evaluating umpires using PITCHf/x
• Even more about replacement level
• Everyone says they are sorry... when they are caught
• Everything old is new again
• Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Gameday
• Everything you ever wanted to know about the sacrifice bunt, but did not want to read for 50 pages
• Everything you wanted to know about Hit Batter locations but were afraid to ask
• Everything you wanted to know about the science of the bat/ball collision
• Everything you wanted to know about the US Attorney's case but were afraid to ask...
• Everything you wanted to know about... (courtesy of Yahoo Sports)
• Everything you've wanted to know, and about to know, about performance on batted balls
• Eveyrthing (else) you wanted to know about wOBA... and a bit about EqA
• Evidence that Bud Black is a bad manager...
• Evolution of Adrian Gonzalez, or adapting from Petco to Fenway?
• Evolving (revolving?) Prospectus
• Example 2012.001 of why not to trust Pitcher Won-Loss Record
• Example of a catcher actually blocking home plate
• Excellent replacement-level simulation
• Execs talking at MIT
• Expanded pitch classifications
• Expanded playoffs
• Expanding {blank} to {blank} is a terrible idea!
• Expansion
• Expected RBI, by lineup slot
• Experience, schmexperience
• Expert Picks
• Experts speak
• Explaining game theory using rock-paper-scissors
• Explaining the win to dollar translation
• Exporting data into Excel
• Expos breathing
• Expos smoke, no Expos fire
• Expos Timeline
• Expos Tribute Video
• Extra inning rule
• Extra Innings Book
• Extra Innings Excerpt
• Extra Innings: One-minute review
• Extra, extra, read all about it: MLB has inter-conference play this weekend!
• Extratec bats
• Eyes Glazing Over
• F/x to take over the broadcasting world
• Factors influencing home-side advantage
• Failed starters as relievers
• Fan bias in the Scouting Report?
• Fan Forecasts at Fangraphs
• Fan ownership? Best team in the league
• Fan team forecasts
• Fan tribute video
• Fan voting gone bad?
• Fangraphs and Pitcher WAR
• Fangraphs at Virginia Tech
• Fangraphs Boxscore Overhauled
• Fangraphs Community Standings
• Fangraphs continues its expansion
• Fangraphs customizations
• Fangraphs Fan forecasts
• Fangraphs fun
• Fangraphs has splits leaderboards
• Fangraphs has updated Win Probability Numbers
• Fangraphs hates nocturnals
• Fangraphs keeps on rolling the new stats
• Fangraphs Library
• Fangraphs Live in Arizona (Spring Training)
• Fangraphs Live in NYC (L'Alliance Francaise)
• Fangraphs Live in NYC (L'Alliance Francaise), update
• Fangraphs now has some Splits data
• Fangraphs park factors for pitchers
• Fangraphs split filter
• Fangraphs splits + multi-year, on the same request
• Fangraphs, finally
• Fangraphs: exciting games of the day
• Fangraphs: now on iPhone!
• Fangraphs: stop me if you heard this one...
• Fangraphs: wOBA and FIP constants
• Fans hanging signs in stadium for achievements
• Fans like to bet the "over" when it comes to their team
• Fans Scouting Report - Full Preliminary Results
• Fans Scouting Report - Preliminary Results
• Fans Scouting Report 2008 - Formatted results
• Fans Scouting Report 2011: final week
• Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Dodgers
• Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Nationals
• Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Padres
• Fans Scouting Report and the position-neutral aspect
• Fans Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans: 2010
• Fans Scouting Report, now on Fangraphs
• Fans Scouting Report: 0 to 100
• Fans Scouting Report: Another Update
• Fans Scouting Report: Last call
• Fans Scouting Report: players on multiple teams
• Fans Scouting Report: Update
• Fans Scouting Report: Update again
• Fans springs eternal
• Fans' Scouting Report - Preliminary Results
• Fans' Scouting Report on stars of yesteryear
• Fantastic Four
• Fantastic research by Mike Fast on THT (with some links to other good articles)
• Fantasy 1, Reality 0
• Fantasy Baseball Dollar Values
• Fantasy Dollar evaluator
• Fantasy Dollars, 2008
• Fantasy FIP
• Fantasy is Reality
• Fantasy valuation
• Fantasy valuation under different league structures
• Farm system rankings
• Farm system rankings correlating to future wins
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• Grow Young with HGH: The Amazing Medically Proven Plan to Reverse Aging
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• gWAR, the latest in the WAR implementations
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• Has Bard been squeezed?
• Has Brett Lawrie ALREADY saved 14 runs so far this year?
• Has there been a change in GB hit at some point in the late 60s?
• Hayhurst on Jeter
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• Here is a great article on "regression toward the mean"
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• How a little bit of information in the wrong hands (or without explanation) can be dangerous.
• How about we have two major leagues...
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• How can the inputs remain the same, but the outputs change?
• How can we tell if a pitcher is any good?
• How can you tell if a change in rules is a good change?
• How Did Ted Williams Do Against Lefties?
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• How do heavy players age?
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• How do low BB players age?
• How do morning-type and night-owls pitch in the day and night?
• How do pitchers age... as batters?
• How Do Pitchers Change Their Approach Against Good Hitters?
• How do pitchers do each time through the order?
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• How far is too far?
• How far to let batter-pitcher matchup dictate your choices?
• How far would Juan Pierre have to defer his contract?
• How good are the Fans in evaluating fielding?
• How good are the various teams' defense?
• How has the �new� use of the humidor affected the 2006 Rockies?
• How important is it to get the Linear Weights coefficient correct?
• How is David Wells any different than Jack Morris?
• How is pitch speed affected by the conditions?
• How is Steven Levitt as a prognosticator of baseball?
• How low a Leverage Index should cause an immediate removal of a starting pitcher?
• How lucky has Scott Rolen been with his opportunities to field?
• How many bases can you steal, if the pitcher pitches from the windup?
• How many fumbles is too many?
• How many innings can an ace reliever pitcher and still be effective?
• How many of you would not mind being fired from your jobs and still get paid for a year or two?
• How many players should a BBWAA voter place on his Hall Of Fame ballot?
• How many runs does a great fielding pitcher save?
• How many runs is a good fielding SS worth?
• How many service days is a service year?
• How many strikeouts is too many?
• How many team wins is too many?
• How many teams in MLB playoffs?
• How many teams in MLB playoffs? Part 2
• How many wins are those dollars buying?
• How many wins do people think Bonds deserves knocked out of his WAR?
• How many years out can you possibly make a forecast?
• How much can a manager leverage speed and OBP with his lineup?
• How much can a pitcher's road parks affect his stats?
• How much control do pitchers REALLY have?
• How much did the 2009 free agents sign for, per win?
• How much did Vegas value Ryan Braun for 2012?
• How much do you think adding Marte and Nady to the Yankees is worth in wins...
• How much does playing in a strong division hurt a team?
• How much for Longoria?
• How much for Pujols as a free agent?
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• How much home field advantage do we want?
• How much is a great farm system worth?
• How much is a great fielder worth? 25 runs.
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• How much is the Statue of Liberty worth?
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• How much is winning a Cy Young worth to a young pitcher?
• How much of an NL starter's hitting is tied up to his value?
• How much parity / dominance do we really want in a league?
• How much random variation in fielding on BIP?
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• How much should Selig make?
• How much skill is there at free throws?
• How much talent is there with NHL goalies?
• How much to pay a manager?
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• How much to value performance from 4 years ago?
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• How much value is going deep to your team?
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• How much will MLB attendance be down this year?
• How much would Nolan Ryan make today?
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• How one umpire retiring can change the entire face of baseball!
• How optimistic are fans?
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• How stubborn is too stubborn?
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• How to calculate Linear Weights, part 2
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• How to definitely tell if the team you support is an extension of the old, or the start of a new:
• How to do fielding in fantasy?
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• How well can we project team defense and other UZR data...
• How well did the Community forecast playing time?
• How well did UZR predict team defense (in UZR) so far?
• How you can make numbers lie
• How you can support just about any argument using silly statistics and logic...
• HR Derby Hangover effect
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• HR distribution
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• HuffPost: Fangraphs is a game-changer
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• I am going to tell you why managers like Francona do dumb things like IBB Hunter...
• I am just a man, after all
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• I can't stand bloggers like...
• I Could Use Some Help With Some Data
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• I took statistics in college...
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• Ichiro: Hiding The Best
• Ichiro: The Greatest CF Ever?
• Identity crisis at 40 innings
• If a metric for a player is "all over the place" after a few years, what does that mean?
• If a pitcher pitches a brilliant game, is he likely a good pitcher?
• If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to see it, can it win the MVP?
• If anyone else (besides me) has thought that the "K-Zones" on TV were screwy, read this...
• If at first you don't succeed (at getting p=.05), try and try again (until you luck into it)
• If GWRBI is a crappy stat, why isn't pitcher wins also crappy?
• If I was a ballplayer, I'd be...
• If I worked for a team and was allowed to do whatever I wanted (and they actually listened)....
• If not Jeter, then who?
• If not Willie Ballgame, then who can leadoff?
• If relievers are better deployed, why don't we see better closing rates?
• If saber-leaning GM, why not saber-leaning coach?
• If the Internet had always existed, would the sports print media have ever been born?
• If this guy shouldn't get hired by a team, no one should....
• If we can't trust a manager or pitching coach to know when a pitcher "has it" or not...
• If we can't win over Allen Barra, who can we win over?
• If you are under 60 years old, you have a 50/50 chance of seeing your team win in your lifetime
• If you can avoid using Linear Weights, and you can use BaseRuns, for pitchers, do so
• If you can throw 105, should you?
• If you don't have a secondary pitch, should you stay in the bullpen?
• If you don't regress toward the mean, one of us will call you out
• If you don't think that the outcome of a game or even a 7-game series is 95% luck and 5% talent...
• If you hate Joe Morgan, you'll love this...
• If you have UZR and TZ, should you EVER use FRAA?
• If you need to send runners home, do it with 2 outs
• If you want to see some fairly knowledgeable fans completely misunderstanding statistical theory...
• If you were poor, would you fake your birthdate?
• If you were to sign Manny next year, what would you give him, years and dollars?
• If you win the lottery, are you a millionaire or not?
• If you win the lottery, are you a millionaire?
• Ignorance is bliss... but, bad analysis is hell
• Ill-considered fielding position moves
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• Implentation v Framework
• Impracticality of Noll-Scully to Measure Competitive Balance
• In a universe filled wih Paul Malholm, it's Bill Hall, not Prince Fielder, that is the hitting star
• In return for instant replay challenges, MLB managers... stay on the bench
• In-game win probability for Basketball
• In-season Marcels
• Income Inequality and Performance in MLB
• Incorporating guts into a forecast
• Increase in pitcher workload
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• Indians Batting Order - Mostly by The Book
• Indirect v direct standardization
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• Inferring Injuries
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• Injury database?
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• Intent to hit a spot
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• Intentionally dropping a foul ball
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• Intentionally using less data?
• Interactive MLB salary database
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• Introducing Koko, Marcel's football-loving cousin
• Introducing The Razors
• Introducing: Batting Assists and Batting Blocks
• Introduction to the landscape of sabermetrics
• Introductions: Strasburg, BABIP... BABIP, Strasburg
• Introductory textbook: Sports Data Mining
• INTROf/x
• Invisible Men
• iPhone app: in-game strategy
• iPhone apps
• Irrational despondency
• Irresistible patience meets immovable impatience
• Is a strikeout just another out?
• Is alot of rest too much rest, heading into a playoff series?
• Is Andruw a ball hog?
• Is ANYONE worth 125MM$ for 5 years, 2 years out, in his mid-30s?
• Is Aroldis Chapman Nolan Ryan?
• Is baseball really a game of "adjustments?"
• Is batting last an advantage?
• Is BIS data on swings completely unreliable?
• Is BJ that out of touch?
• Is Carlos Guillen delusional?
• Is Chase Utley really black?
• Is Cliff Lee on a 6-1 streak, or a 0-1 slump?
• Is David Ortiz beating the shift by going the other way?
• Is Dirk Hayhurst looking for a mainstream media job?
• Is elevating a starting pitcher's pitch count a GOOD thing?
• Is Francoeur worth 12MM$ or 3MM$ on the open market?
• Is Gary Bettman in charge of the LPGA?
• Is Greinke obsessed with controlling the strike zone? And does that lead to a high BABIP?
• Is Hanley Ramirez loafing a necessary byproduct of the rest of his talent?
• Is Hanley Ramirez worth a 13 yr, 248 million$ deal, with only 2 years of service?
• Is Ichiro a Superstar?
• Is it bragging if you can back it up?
• Is it easier to get a good ERA+ in a low run environment?
• Is It Easier To Standout in a High Run Environment?
• Is Jason Heyward the new Freddie Lynn?
• Is Jeff Francoeur the new Shea Hillenbrand?
• Is Jeff Suppan the worst veteran pitcher that you never hear about?
• Is Marcel too good to be a baseline comparison point?
• Is Mariano Rivera's strike zone so pitcher-friendly that he gets a 1.61 run benefit per 9IP?
• Is Michael Lewis really a tree in a forest with no one around?
• Is Michael Pineda actually "Larry Bernandez" (aka Felix)?
• Is MLB commissioner's office infuencing TV broadcasters?
• Is MLB still draconian?
• Is MLB's pitchf/x system accurate?
• Is Ovechkin the hundred million dollar legs with the 5 cent head?
• Is Paul DePodesta delusional, or did he think his readers might be?
• Is PECOTA overzealous?
• Is PED out of baseball?
• Is Posada the worst base runner in the world?
• Is recent change in fastball speed an indicator of future success?
• Is Ryan Howard really that bad versus LHP?
• Is Scott Boras like Nolan Ryan?
• Is selling part of the game of baseball that you love?
• Is signing a new star player like building a new stadium: you get fans to come for the novelty?
• Is Strasburg going to get pulled even earlier now?
• Is the ball juiced again?
• Is the fantasy baseball snake-draft fair?
• Is the interleague schedule unfair?
• Is the Shift actually working?
• Is the WAR-salary model broken?
• Is there a bias in PECOTA relative to speedsters?
• Is there a hangover effect for hitters following a knuckler?
• Is there a link between the rate of HR per AirBall and the frequency of outcomes (K, BB, GB, FB, LD)
• Is there a minimum below which you should not forecast a pitcher's ERA?
• Is there a positive or negative correlation between signing bonuses for draftees and veteran MLBer?
• Is there a Redsox/Yankee variable in bullpen-to-starter moves?
• Is there any merit to this argument?
• Is there any merit to this logic?
• Is there anyone out there that will print the instructions from the Cy Young ballot?
• Is there bad blood in the community?
• Is there such a thing as a sure-hit?
• Is this line linear or polynomial?
• Is TJ Simers a worse person than Marcus Thames is a fielder?
• Is UZR limited because the baseline is zeroed-out to that year's average?
• Is UZR park adjusted
• Is Vladimir Streaky?
• Is WAR useful for Awards voting?
• Is where you hit in the lineup conducive to better performance?
• Is where you play on the field conducive to better hitting performance?
• Is Willy Randolph to Blame for the Mets' poor record and performance?
• Is Winning Everything?
• Is wOBA all it's cracked up to be?
• iScore Review
• Isolating Pitchers From Batters
• Israeli baseball league play-by-play data
• It is my experience that I recall things that didn't happen, and I believe things that are not true
• It is official: A major league manager (claims that he) has read The Book.
• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
• It's hard to beat the crowd (Vegas in this case) no matter how smart you think you are
• It's impossible to create a terrible uber-stat
• It's not the data, it's the sport
• iTunes baseball app
• Jack Cust, Quadruple A hitter?
• Jack Morris is Brad Radke?
• Jack Morris: Babblefest 2011
• Jack Morris? How about Guidry and Viola?
• Jack Wilson: the ballplayer's tragedy
• Jack Z
• Jacoby Victorino
• Jacques Doucet
• Jake Peavy
• James Carroll loves UZR
• James on McGwire via Maris
• James Player Rater 1994
• James Randi
• JamesEarlJonesification of Yankee Stadium
• Jamie Moyer IS Jack Morris
• Japan Translations
• Japanese baseball
• Japanese pitch counts
• Jared Cross: leading the discussion
• Jared Winely: I hate you for making me side with Mike Francessa
• Jarvis + Retrosheet = Useful Data
• Jason Bartlett
• Jason Heyward
• Jason Whitlock and Bill Baer
• Javy Vazquez
• Javy Vazquez for... that's it?
• Javy's .500 record is way above average
• Jayson Stark Tracer
• Jayson Werth, CF
• JC
• JC rapprochement: marginal utility?
• JC v Tango?
• Jeapordy Clicker
• Jed Hoyer and the power of scouts
• Jeff Kent or Andre Dawson?
• Jeff Luhnow, blogger-friendly
• Jeff Luhnow, Cardinals VP
• Jeff Luhnow, VP Cardinals, speaks
• Jeff Ma
• Jeff Passan v Loria/Samson/Selig
• Jered Weaver
• Jered Weaver: from sabre-darling to sabre-nightmare
• Jerry Blevins tracer
• Jersey/sweater sponsorships
• Jeter 3 for 17... ARod sucks.
• Jeter bias
• Jeter tells his agent to f-ck -ff?
• Jeter v Mariano
• Jeter v Rose
• Jeter's contract breakdown
• Jeter: Tony Soprano or not?
• Jim Bowden's Sabermetrics primer
• Jim Gray
• Jim Gray or Tom Farrey?
• Jim Rice: meet Jose Vidro
• Jim Rice? How about Vladimir Guerrero and Andruw Jones?
• Jimenez's luck
• Jimmy Rollins
• Joba
• Joba: PITCHf/x
• Joba: starter or reliever?
• Joe Cooter speaks
• Joe Mauer
• Joe Mauer
• Joe Mauer's deferred contract
• Joe Morgan's peak
• Joe Sheehan newsletter
• Joe Sheehan v The Monkey
• Joel Pineiro: from success to replacement-level to success
• Joey Votto comparables
• Joey Votto or Matt Moore?
• Joey Votto, saberist
• Johan Santana and the trade that wasn't (Jon Lester? Jacoby Ellsbury?)
• John Abbamondi, asst GM of Cards
• John Danks
• John Dewan (and research assistant) speak!
• John Dewan: Stopwatches? No!
• John Donaldson
• John Helyar meets Dr Andrews
• John Olerud
• John Sickels on sabermetrics, or, How the road less travelled is the road not taken
• John Smoltz
• John Smoltz announcing the post-season
• John Smoltz: Sabermetrician!
• John Updike, describing Ted Williams' final at bat
• John Wetteland
• Jon Heyman's uncertainty level in predictions
• Jon Weisman
• Jonah + Poz = ?
• Jonah Keri
• Jonah Keri on Tim Raines
• Jonah Lehrer: "This is largely the fault of sabermetrics"
• Jordan Walden
• Jorge being Murray
• Jose Bautista
• Jose Bautista, linguist: "Take your nose out of the dictionary and watch the game!"
• Jose Bautista: like Bret Boone... but better!
• Jose Molina
• Jose Reyes
• Jose Vidro: the race is on
• Journalism, schmournalism
• JQAS editor
• Juan Marichal and the 3 day rest
• Juan Pierre: I and we were wrong
• Judge Kosinksi
• Judges for Fantasy Sports
• Junkballer Pedro
• Just put me on TV for one game (that's all I would last anyway)...
• Justin Morneau is the new Barry Bonds?
• Justine Siegal
• K minus BB differential or ratio?
• K per PA
• K rate ages faster for relievers?
• K's
• K-Rod's option
• K/BB ratio or K/BB differential?
• Kapitoil
• KC Yankees (1955-1960)
• Keep your fans close and your enemies closer
• Keeper Leagues
• Keeping your batting order static
• Keith Law interview
• Keith Woolner on peak age
• Keith Woolner speaks
• Kelly Johnson's approach to hitting
• Kelvim Escobar's PITCHf/x
• Ken Davidoff ranks the free agents using WAR
• Ken Dryden, head injuries, and Grantland
• Ken Singleton and plate discipline
• Kenny Lofton: Ichiro, before Ichiro! ?
• Keri Podcast
• Keri's Extra 2%
• Keri: Expos book
• Kershaw v Strasburg
• Kershaw v Strasburg, part 2
• Kincaid
• Kindling The Book
• Kirk Gibson, Steroid User?
• KJOK Parks Database Updated
• Knowing enough about numbers to be dangerous
• Knuckleball hangover, part 2
• Knuckleball pitchers: all of them
• Knuckleballer hangover effect
• Knuckleballs
• KNUCKLEf/x
• Koko the monkey takes a beating
• Korean Boxscore
• Kotsay v Edmonds
• Koufax or Sutton: Who was greater?
• Koufax's peak
• Kovulchuk: playing with fire?
• Kris Benson = Stephen Strasburg?
• Kristi + THT
• Kristi Dosh now on ESPN
• Kristi Dosh: Meet Wayne Gretzky
• Kyle Farnsworth
• Lack of hustle during a game
• Lake Wobegon
• Lamplighter Glanville
• Landing/crossing spot of uncaught pitches
• Larry David is juicing... not there's anything wrong with that
• Larussa v Fans
• LASIK schmASIK
• Last call for the Fans Scouting Report
• Last Chance to Buy THE BOOK, First Edition
• Last time each team won a playoff series
• Last week in crazy golf rules
• Last year's 1 year deals on starting pitchers
• Lastings Milledge
• Lastings Milledge : GMs "as to" Bad boys : the girls who think they are the ones who can change them
• Lastings Milledge or LASTINGS MILLEDGE?
• Late-inning fielding replacement
• Latest from BEPress
• Latest Replacement Level thread
• Latos and park factors
• Launch angle + Speed off the bat = trajectory
• Launch angle, by contact point in the strike zone
• Lazy assumptions or lazy research?
• Leaders in kwERA
• Leadoff hitters have a below average OBP?
• Lean Mean Fighting Japanese v Fat Lazy Laid-back Americans
• Learning Things Today
• Least hyped players
• Leaving high school "early"
• Lebron James and puppy dogs
• Lee Smith v Tim Raines
• Left-handed Infielder, or Frank Thomas?
• Lefties and Righties
• Lefty-lefty matchup for the sake of lefty-lefty matchup?
• Legacy of franchise moves
• Legacy of NBA Oklahoma team
• Legal ruling on the Phillies/Marlins HR/interference call
• Legislating rules of etiquette
• Legit news outlets?
• Lego
• Lego-metrics
• Lemonade
• Les Blue Jays de Montreal
• Let me have the wisdom to know that I can't hit, but that I can still contribute with the bat
• Let the Crowd-Sourcing begin
• Letting pitchers bat: It never ceases to amaze me...
• LEV v LI
• Leverage Index
• Leverage Index by Save Opportunities
• Leverage Index for Tennis
• Leverage Index in 1925
• Leverage Index splits, now available at b-r.com!
• Leverage Index to end of game
• Leverage Index, By Base/Out States
• Leverage Observations
• Leveraged Index... for contracts
• Leveraging Strasburg
• LHH RHH bias in umpire calls
• LI and WPA used to determine most exciting games
• LI in Star-Ledger
• LI v boLI
• Life and death of research ideas in the NHL
• Life of a scorer
• Life of a sports commentator
• Lifetime Contracts for the best players in the league
• Like Grandy, another bright, informed player...
• Limited usefulness of batting average
• Limiting playoffs saves teams from themselves
• Limiting workloads
• Lincecum the catcher
• Lincecum will lose his arb hearing
• Lincoln is to Kennedy as Mays is to Junior
• Line drive blooper
• Line Drives
• Linear Weights 1993-2010
• Linear Weights by Run Environment
• Linear Weights by Strike Zone
• Linear Weights by Strike Zone location
• Linear Weights by the (24) Base-Out and (12) Count States
• Linear Weights primer
• Linear Weights Ratio, Total Average, Estimated Runs Produced...
• Linear Weights Run values of each pitch
• Linear Weights v Runs Created
• Linear Weights, by field location
• Linear Weights, By Men on Base
• Linear Weights, by pitch location
• Linear Weights, by pitch movement
• Linear Weights... by batted ball speed
• Linear Win Shares
• Linear wins
• Lineup simulator
• Liriano, meet Earl Weaver
• List of banned-drug users
• List: best to worst team in sports
• Listening to Bobby Valentine makes me long for Joe Morgan
• Lists, lists, lists
• Little League Dad of the Year
• Little League World Series excesses
• Little Leaguers left behind
• Livan Strasburg
• Live-to-tape broadcasts with the ending pre-known
• Liveblog - World Series - Game 5
• Liveblog - World Series Game 1
• Liveblog - World Series Game 2
• Liveblog - World Series Game 3
• Liveblog World Series Game 4
• Liveblog World Series Game 5
• Liveblog World Series Game 5, Rainfree
• Liveblogging Clemens
• LOB% video
• LOB% video
• Location, location, location: Colorado Springs House For Sale
• Lock this in a vault or put it in a hermetically sealed envelope...
• Long and short atbats
• Long-term forecasts
• Longoria II
• Longoria no longer the best deal in... (which year)?
• Looking for a baseball book?
• Looking for Data?
• Looking for what makes a pitcher disproportionately better in relief
• Lookout Landing Primer wrap up
• Lookout Landing readers understand regression toward the mean!
• Lookout Landing's SABR 101
• Lopez and Figgins switching positions
• Loss from piracy
• Loss Shares and Win Advancements
• Loss Shares are coming
• Lottery bank account
• Lou Whitaker - Best Player in MLB history eligible but not in the hall of fame?
• Low-priced copies of The Book
• Lowering the standards to retire numbers so that we can have an excuse for celebration
• Loyalty? Loyalty my ass.
• Luis Hernandez swing rate against slow or breaking pitches
• M's batting order
• Macleans
• Maddon at it again...
• Maddon the genius again...
• Madison Bumgarner
• Magnus force primer
• Mail: Referencing The Book
• Mail: rWAR v fWAR
• Mail: Separating starters from relievers
• Mailbag questions
• Mailbag: Replacement level example calculation
• Mailbags
• Mailbags on Parade
• Mailbags updated
• Mailing List
• Mailing-it-in article on the All-Star Game
• Mainstream media protects its own, goes after blogger
• Make everyone a free agent at age...
• Make Holy Writers publish their ballots
• Make me a deal for Leverage Index
• Make pro athletes return their scholarships
• Make the case to put Johnny Damon in the HOF, while keeping Carlos Beltran (and Jim Edmonds) out
• Make the sure out at first, or try for a play at home?
• Make way Baseball-Reference... Fangraphs needs some room
• Make-a-wish: the one day contract
• Making minor leagues stronger
• Making Sense of Win Expectancy and Stolen Bases
• Making strides
• Mallpark
• Man v Machine
• Manager ejection
• Manager mistakes in the 2011 WS: Game 1
• Managers influencing scoreboard operators
• Managing the 2011 World Series: Game 3
• Mandy Housenick
• Manny Acta says the words "PITCHf/x"
• Manny Acta would like to be the Official Manager of The Book
• Manny being Pujols
• Manny Being Rickey
• Manny drugging Manny
• Maple Street Press
• Mapping IDs
• Maps and Territories
• Marc Rubin
• Marcel 2009 - Not yet
• Marcel 2009 is here
• Marcel 2010
• Marcel 2011
• Marcel 2012
• Marcel 2012
• Marcel = Chone = PECOTA
• Marcel and MMORPG
• Marcel of Joy
• Marcel Player Forecasts 2007
• Marcel plus Chone plus position equals Projected SLWTS
• Marcel Primer
• Marcel Q&A
• Marcel Team Standings Forecasts, unofficial
• Marcel v Fans: Or, do fans regress enough?
• Marcel, 2008
• Marcel: the only truly worldwide forecasting system
• Marcello's playing time
• Margin of error on offense
• Marian Hossa
• Mariano 3D
• Mariano Rivera
• Mariano Rivera or Derek Jeter?
• Mariano Rivera, LI, Fangraphs, Rally
• Mariano: 599? No, 641
• Mariner fans and the 2-hole
• Mariner Magazine with a sabermetric slant
• Mariner OF defense: from fantastic to horrible
• Mariners
• Mariners consortium
• Mariners fans meet the front office
• Mariners following the Bizarro-Brewers plan
• Mariners offense
• Mariners' social ticket-sharing
• Mario greatest in Pittsburgh history
• Mark Buehrle's mind
• Mark Cuban does WOWY/UZR/WPA in basketball
• Mark Ellis
• Mark Ellis v Orlando Hudson
• Mark Prior's Pitching Mechanics
• Mark Reynolds, Saberist
• Mark Simon, ESPN, and sabremetrics
• Mark Teahen, and GB/FB ratios
• Market for Japanese pitchers
• Market forces v Central Planning
• Market inefficiency of Elias Type A as it relates to relievers
• Market Value
• Marketplace
• Markov 2: Gaussian Elimination
• Markov Lineup simulator
• Markov on Halladay v Lincecum
• Marlins batting order
• Marlins Park an extreme pitcher's park?
• Married MLB players earn more than single MLB players of the same quality?
• Marv White of SportVision asks:
• Marv, CTO of Sportvision, answering some PITCHf/x questions
• Marvin Miller
• Marvin Miller on Jim Palmer
• Marvin Miller's "Red speech" from Shawshank redemption didn't work
• Marvin Miller's Union
• Marvin Miller, follow-up
• Mate Win%
• Math + baseball = Ripken fun
• Math confirms two greatest World Series were 1975 and 1991
• Math fun: series odds
• Math of seating charts
• Mathematical sleight of hand
• MATHLETICS
• Mathletics Review
• Matt "anti-DIPS" Cain
• Matt and batted balls, part 1 (Tango's reading issues)
• Matt Clement, Bad or Unlucky?
• Matt Harrington
• Matt on DIPS
• Matt Swartz
• Matt Wieters and MLEs
• Matt Wieters current talent level?
• Mattingly v Keith Hernandez
• Max on Clutch
• Max on run value of pitch, by count
• Max on WOWY... including baserunning
• Max's minor league fielding system
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation
• McCarthy: get groundballs
• McGwire
• Meals and default calls
• Mean, Median: Meandian?
• Meandian, part 2
• Meaning in hot and cold zones?
• Measuring clubhouse chemistry
• Measuring Plate Discipline
• Measuring the immeasurable
• Mechanical Breakdowns
• Media recycles stories
• Media shutout of negotiations
• Media turmoil in Quebec
• Median ERA?
• Medical expert v hockey expert
• Meet the Rays
• Membership in the North American Association of Sports Economists
• Men-osyllabic Moneyball
• Meta-Primer: BA, OBP, SLG, OPS, LWTS, and wOBA
• Mets Annual - free pdf
• Mets fielding storylines
• Mets on the DL
• Mets should try The Book rotation
• MGL and Manny Ramirez
• MGL and MIT
• MGL and Tango Interviews
• MGL and Tex:
• MGL Archives
• MGL Component Park Factors
• MGL in ESPN Mag
• MGL in... SI
• MGL on UZR and MLB
• MGL v managers
• MGL's Aging Study
• MGL, The Bunt, Win Expectancy, and Fangraphs: how you just got a little smarter
• MGL: Today on Clubhouse Confidential
• Micah Owings
• Michael Farber
• Michael Farber's award-winning article from 1982 on Tim Raines
• Michael Lewis
• Michael Schell
• Michael Schwimer: beyond PITCHf/x
• Michael Young is Derek Jeter
• Mickey Mantle's baseball philosophy
• Mike Cameron v Jim Rice: context
• Mike Cameron: sabermetric darling
• Mike Fast
• Mike Fast -> BPro
• Mike Fast interview
• Mike Francesa, unabridged
• Mike Marshall
• Mike Schmidt speaks
• Mike Scioscia, saber-scout
• Mike Scoscia
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 10: Future
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 1: UZR
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 2: WAR
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 3: WAR and finances
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 4: FIP
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 5: Stat saturation
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 6: Goal?
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 7: Salesmen
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 8: Hall of Fame
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 9: Fantasy Game
• Mike Silva Chronicles - Parts 1 through 10 placeholder
• Mike Silva chronicles: UZR and Teix
• Mike Silva is trying
• Mike Silva on J.A. Happ
• Mike Sweeney
• Millsy
• Minimax
• Minimum number of years for immortality
• Minor league baseballs are built to different specifications than major league baseballs
• Minor League Batted Ball Charts
• Minor League Data
• Minor League data
• Minor League Database
• Minor league farm value
• Minor League Fielding
• Minor League Fielding
• Minor league fielding arms
• Minor league fielding leaders
• Minor league pitcher says: It's because of the random variation of my BABIP!
• Minor league run environments
• Minor League Splits Database
• Minor League translations
• Minor to major correlations
• Minorities
• Minority stake in baseball-reference.com sold!
• Miscalibrations in PITCHf/x by park
• Misconceptions of WAR
• Miserable sports cities
• Misleading those who want to be misled
• Missing the big picture on the small idea that is realignment
• Mistake Pitches leading to homeruns
• Mister Pickle comments on The Book review
• Misunderstanding Win Expectancy
• MIT Class with MGL and David Gassko
• Mix in a hockey executive in charge of discipline, and his son in the NHL, and you have...
• Mixing pitches by leverage
• Mixing speeds
• MLB 2012 Odds: BetOnline
• MLB = Horses
• MLB Accounting
• MLB business documents
• MLB Depth Charts
• MLB financial data
• MLB formally partnering with a feeder system
• MLB free agents qualify for unemployment insurance?
• MLB GM responds to service time issue!
• MLB ID database
• MLB idiot of the week
• MLB is pretty well balanced compared to other sports
• MLB knew of McGwire's steroid use in 1993
• MLB logo
• MLB Network oddball videos
• MLB not moving a snail's pace? Apparently
• MLB Odds
• MLB Pitcher agrees with DIPS! We can finally come out of our basements!
• MLB pitcher or NHL goalie? Which sport will break the woman barrier?
• MLB plans to INCREASE number of reasons for a balk
• MLB Playoff Race
• MLB really loves having unpaid writers cheerleading them
• MLB salaries v GDP
• MLB season is too long?
• MLB Umpire academy
• MLB's love-hate relationship with 3B/2B
• MLB, playoffs, and streaming
• MLB, stipends, Japan, boycotts
• MLB.com and censorship
• MLB.com has embeddable video
• MLB.tv doesn't archive
• MLB/MiLB: 8833
• MLBAM buys Angels.com URL for 200,000$
• MLBAM: Socially awkward or active?
• MLBPA should consider allowing buyouts
• MLBPA throws Orlando Hudson to the wolves
• MLBPA: be scared... be very very scared
• MLBPA: looking for evidence of wrongdoing
• MLE of groundball rates
• MLEs
• Mo slows down and gets better
• Mo, Bill James, and me
• Modeling Baseball Player Ability with a Nested Dirichlet Distribution
• Modelling approaches and strike zone
• Moises Alou
• Momentum does not exist, opposing coaches agree!
• Momentum is this inning's reliever
• Momentum, shmomentum
• Money in the bank counts, when looking at your destination
• Moneyball at Villanova
• Moneyball review from Poz
• Moneyball The Movie - Reviews!
• Moneyball Trailer
• Moneyball: one minute review
• Moneyscout
• Monolithic sabermetrics
• Montreal doesn't want you Washington
• Montreal Expos
• Montreal's Jackie Robinson
• More about WPA
• More BABIP forecasts
• More beliefs of Ken Funck
• More card collecting
• More changes at Fangraphs
• More changes of the veteran's committee
• More Clutch
• More clutch kicking
• More DH and fielding
• More ERA# shop talk
• More ERA/FIP forecasting
• More fantasy Challenge
• More foolishness from the "smart" ex-players and managers...
• More hockey ties
• More Knuckleballs
• More Leverage Index
• More matchups
• More math nonsense
• More on Morris and Cox, bloggers / editors
• More on Ryan Howard's WAR
• More on the bat glove: but where's the MLBPA in all this?
• More opening vault from Jeff: Marcels
• More optimistic fan forecasts
• More Phony Outrage
• More Pitch f/x Data
• More Pitch-by-Pitch
• More R
• More regression from Colin
• More run expectancy articles at BPro
• More sabermetrics in the MSM
• More sleeve rolling on Royals' farm system
• More spray charts
• More than you probably ever wanted to know about the pythagorean method
• More Tim Raines
• More Tim Raines HOF
• More updates at Fangraphs...
• More walks-for-singles swap
• More WPA
• More WPA (WA minus LA) calculations
• Morgan Ensberg asks...
• Morgan Ensberg chats with SOSHers
• Morgan Ensberg has parental advice
• Morgan Ensberg steals home
• Morgan Ensberg, saberist
• Morneau, Santana, MVP, WPA
• Most aggressive basestealers
• Most critical at bat in MLB history
• Most Dominant Performances Ever
• Most exciting games, quantified - discussions
• Most hits, age 27-36
• Most inconsistent HOF ballot this year?
• Most innovative companies in sports
• Most likeable Mariners, according to Mariner fans
• Most Outstanding Pitchers - 2010 - nominations
• Most people still don't understand the concept of regression toward the mean...
• Most pitches in an inning
• Most Valuable Hitters, 2006
• Most wins, 2000-2009
• Mound visit "tells"
• Move over Carlos Ruiz, make way for Andres Torres
• Move over Jim Bouton's Ball Four... make way for Squeegee's Strike Three
• Move over Marcel, evolution says... Oliver
• Move over Marcel, make way for...
• Movement v Break
• Movies Nomination List
• Moving a young veteran over for an unproven prospect
• Moving along the mound, based on handedness of batter
• Moving your middle infielders toward the lines, based on the fielding talent of your pitcher
• Mow much bigger are players today?
• MPP: Most Productive Player Award
• Mrs. Dirk Hayhurst
• Multi-year free agent relievers
• Multi-year relievers
• Multiple Inning Relievers
• Murray Chass again
• Murray Chass quotes WAR... and in a good way!
• Murray Chass v Bobby Valentine
• Murray Chass v Post through Halper v Nash
• Murray Chass' pitchers
• Murray Chass: a typical blogger article
• Murray Chass: internet writer, NOT a blogger (Update: Likely a hoax; Update: Confirmed as real.)
• Murray Chass: Selig's Bud, Stan Kasten, is the favored new Dodgers owner
• Muzzling players
• MVP
• MVP 1987
• My 1B is better than your 1B
• My annual post on Expos/Nationals
• My dirty dozen favorite baseball websites
• My dozens of PED threads, hundreds of posts + thousands of rambling comments summarized by one post
• My first board game
• My issue with regression equations
• My mini-study on attendance and wins
• My new best friend forever of the day
• Mystical Saberists
• Name this player!
• NASA and online peer review
• Nate McLouth v Joe Sheehan
• Nate McLouth, sabermetrician
• Nate Silver meet Sean Forman, OR, why I really hate any and all predictions then, now and forever
• Nate Silver meets Stephen Colbert
• NBA free throw shooters choke late in close games
• NBA preseason forecast results
• NBA version of Marcel holding its own
• NBA's Marcel
• Neal Huntington's best moves
• Near-sighted Marcels
• Ned Yost and the Brewers
• Negro League Database
• Negro Leagues
• Negro Leagues
• Neifi Perez, 2002: Worst Hitting Season of All-Time?
• Nervous closers
• Neural networks for the Hall of Fame
• Neutralizing Data
• Never bet against Regression Toward The Mean
• New Age of Old Data
• New Baseball Database
• New baseball rule: changing the structure of the batting order?
• New bats lead to shorter distances
• New BBTN
• New Citi Field Dimensions
• New Cy Young ballots
• New fielding runs for BPro
• New Gameday
• New Gold Glove rules
• New Jersey City University
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• New PECOTA
• New rules in MLB
• New-age FIP
• Newsweek, Schell, Regression
• Neyer leaving ESPN... and joins SBNation
• Neyer on Poz on The Machine
• Neyer on Raines
• Neyer v MGL, take 2
• Neyer's IronRule
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• NHL 1984 draft
• NHL challenges deal that makes sense
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• NHL hurting European Leagues
• NHL likes bloggers, gives them access to data and video
• NHL players should thank Marvin Miller?
• NHL Rule 26 + World Cup of Soccer
• NHL: have players establish the workplace rules
• NHL: who hits and gets hit
• Nice article on ESPN Insider about batting order...
• Nice interview with Bill James
• Nice little article about Bayesian probablity and other related things
• Nick Leyva
• Nick Punto
• Nick Punto trying to decide between a team of scientists and a stopwatch
• Nick Punto: backup or starter?
• Ninth Inning: Game theory, C.J. Wilson, and Adrian Beltre
• NL Central schedule changes annually for 14 years
• NL teams vs the field
• No A+ prospects?
• No CHONE in 2011
• No equilibrium in 2 point conversion? Run more!
• No matter how I slice or dice it, pitchers get worse every year...
• No mid-inning coach visit
• No one to be elected at the non-player HOF?
• No, no, no, no, NO!
• No, no, no, no, NO! (Part 2)
• No, really, this time, Jeremy Hellickson will be the guy who will buck the BABIP-trend
• No-decisions
• No-division realignment effect: increase from 4.9 to 5.2 competitive teams
• Nomar, Vlad: model for quick signings
• Nomination for sports article of the year
• Non-conforming umpires
• Non-judgemental Baseball Stats
• Non-randomness in pitching approach
• Non-standardized baseball
• Non-stathead Chronicles - Bleed Cubbie Blue
• Normalizing the Gameday hit location data
• North American Society for Sport Management Conference
• Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports
• Not all fielding opportunities are created the same
• Not all TV commentators believe in clutch hitting
• Not EXACTLY one run, but AT LEAST one run
• Not in MLB?
• Not losing money to injuries
• Not so Sweet Suites
• Now pitching for the Philadelphia Phillies: Jack Morris!
• Now this is good stuff: Fastball speeds
• Now you frame it, now you don't
• NPR Science Friday: Homeruns
• NRI about to make the club
• Number of innings pitched, by domestic/foreign pitchers, since 1969
• Number One
• Numbers don't (necessarily) represent the performance of the player
• Numbers Guys and Murray Chass
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• Occam's razor
• Odd lineup of the day
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• Odds of Cliff Lee reaching 300 wins?
• Odds of making the HOF
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• Odds Ratio Method: head to head movies
• Odds Ratio Method: track runners and baseball
• Ode to Baseball Digest
• Ode to Bob Brenly
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• Ode to print encyclopedias
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• Ode to the triple
• OF Arms
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• Offense as the new market inefficiency?
• Offense by position groups by decade
• Offensive rates as a function of base/out state...
• Official does not mean correct, when it comes to scorers
• Official Post-Season Strategy Thread
• Ohlendorf's arbitration case
• Oil Can Boyd
• Oldest ace relievers
• Oliver Primer
• Oliver updates
• On a diving board at the wading pool
• On a HOF path, before injuries strike
• On Defense: Subjective Data, Objectively Considered
• On paper, would Beimel have been a better option than Street, versus Howard?
• On The Importance Of Playoff Experience
• Once a Galarraga...
• One hundred thirty
• One Last Year For ARod? Or, how much is happiness worth?
• One less player on the playing area
• One mph twist
• One of many ways that not regressing toward the mean can get you in trouble...
• One other man's WAR forecasts
• One size doesn't fit all: MLE
• One-month moratorium on MLB blackouts?
• Online game using Marcel
• Only the nose knows
• Only use shortcuts if you are in a hurry
• OOTP Computer Baseball Game
• OOTP13
• Open Letter from Cory Schwartz
• Open Letter to Murray Chass
• Opening Day Chats
• OPS and Clutchiness
• OPS and OPS+
• OPS Fear Chamber
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• Optimal SB success rates by player?
• Optimizing the Batting Order
• Optimizing the batting order: Phillies and Yankees
• Option-buying on potential future post-season games
• Options, Futures
• Origin of The Wave
• Origins of baseball
• Ortiz, His Clutchiness Holiness
• Other People's Players
• Our HOF ballot
• Out for being out of the batter's box?
• Out of the ashes of Jeff's minor league splits site comes...
• Out of the Park 2007
• Out rate by location and hang time
• Out rate on groundballs over the season
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• Outcomes by fastball speed
• Outcomes by pitch count
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• Overcrowding the ballot splits the votes and no one wins
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• Overturning a positive test
• Ownership changes
• Owning up to bad forecasts
• PA as a stand-in for games played in the WAR calculation
• PA, starts, batting order, and team runs
• Pablo Sandoval and WAR
• Padres preview book
• Padres Sabermetrician
• Padress off-season signings
• Panas' sabermetric primer book
• Panas' sabermetric primer book, part 2
• Panic mode in Redsox nation?
• PAP
• Papelbon
• Papelbon's Phillies
• Paper on predicting pitches (to be presented at Sloan)
• Paper: Sabermetric and Microeconomic Perspectives on Free Agent Contracts
• Paradox of the DH adjustment
• Paralysis by Analysis
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• Park factors and weather
• Park Factors, 2004-2006
• Park factors: Yankee3 v Citi
• Park Impact
• Park Timeline
• Parking near Yankee Stadium
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• Past history v Future story
• Paying CC to terminate his opt-out option
• Paying for performance
• Paying someone for their title, not their content
• Paying your DH
• Payroll v Wins, in the Moneyball era (2002-2011)
• Peace in the MidEast, the Metric System in America, or OBP over BA?
• Peak age by length of career
• Peak age in hockey
• Peak ages for hitters and pitchers
• Peak Offensive Age
• Peavy: from PETCO to the Cell
• PECOTA 2011
• PECOTA and Marcel on Ichiro
• PECOTA cards
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• PECOTA Percentiles: finally!
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• Pedro 1997-2003: Personalized Run Expectancy and Linear Weights
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• Pedro speaks
• Pedro v Sandy
• Pedro: Close your eyes, open your mind
• Pee-Wee Hockey
• Peer review v internet debate
• Peer-reviewing bloggers
• Pennants Added
• People who like Anthony Giacalone and Joe Hamrahi also like...
• People's instincts are better than just the facts
• People, not stats
• Per Possession Win%
• Perception of curve ball
• Perfect Game calculation
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• Performance after an error
• Performance by position of the Sun
• Performance in non-save situations
• Performance in playoffs on short-rest
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• Performance in year after PED use
• Performance through the ages
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• Personal Platoon Splits
• Personal Services Contracts
• Personal team tracker: My Team
• Pete Rose / Ray Fosse
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• Pettitte for hall of fame?
• Pettitte's testimony begins
• PFX Summit Live Stream
• Phil and .300 around the web
• Phil being Phil
• Phil Hughes: starter/reliever
• Phil nails it again about .300 hitters
• Phil on Rodney Fort and academia
• Phil schools Freakonomics
• Phil, JC, and MRP
• Phil, JC, and the future
• Phillies Chairman Bill Giles admits collusion in his own book
• Philosophical forecasting
• Phoney-baloney
• Phony Outrage
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• Physics of baseball in the rain
• Physics of bats and balls
• Physics of tennis courts
• Picasso Theory
• Pick of the week
• Picking on Joe Sheehan and BP again (like shooting fish in a barrel?)
• Pinch Hitting: No Bang Off The Bench?
• Pinto and Fielding
• Pinto PMR Charts
• Pinto's PMR
• Pinto's PMR
• Pirates GM says wOBA?
• Pirates incentivized to not win?
• Pitch analysis of Eric Bedard
• Pitch Count Distribution
• Pitch Count Estimator applied to Minor League
• Pitch count repository
• Pitch Count Theory links
• Pitch counts and long tossing
• Pitch counts are dumb terminals
• Pitch Counts from the Old Dodgers
• Pitch Data
• Pitch Diversity Index
• Pitch f/x and the catcher's target
• Pitch f/x data
• Pitch load effect on ERA
• Pitch recognition
• Pitch Sequences
• Pitch sequencing and batter selectivity
• Pitch sequencing with Mariano Rivera
• Pitch sequencing: high fastball + curve
• Pitch speed, injury, aging, and changing roles...
• Pitch Trajectory
• Pitcher batting 8th
• Pitcher Fatigue
• Pitcher on Pitcher K
• Pitcher preparation program
• Pitcher RE24
• Pitcher release points and target areas
• Pitcher Scouting Report?
• Pitcher strikeout spikes: what to expect
• Pitcher wearing down
• Pitcher wins
• Pitcher X is 13-4, 2.00 ERA, 153 IP. For CY YOUNG voting, you place him right BELOW which pitcher?
• Pitcher's Won-Loss Record
• Pitchers as batters
• Pitchers batting 8th
• Pitchers batting not 9th
• Pitchers for MVP?
• Pitchers peak at age 29! Maybe, not?
• Pitchers Roundtable in the 1980s
• Pitchers WAR Aging Curves: 5 year forecast
• Pitchers wOBA leaderboard
• Pitches per events, historically
• PITCHf/s miscalibration
• PITCHf/x (nee: FoxTrax Puck)
• PITCHf/x ... Tracers!
• PITCHf/x and batter perspective
• PITCHf/x at SABR convention
• PITCHF/x at SABR40
• PITCHf/x at the WBC
• PITCHf/x Curveballs
• PITCHf/x data quality
• PITCHf/x discussion forum
• PITCHf/x Drag and Lift
• PITCHf/x in 2009
• PITCHf/x injuries
• PITCHf/x leaderboards that span multiple seasons?
• PITCHf/x on Fangraphs update
• PITCHf/x primer
• PITCHf/x recaps
• PITCHf/x sim scores
• PITCHf/x still inconsistent park to park?
• PITCHf/x Summit 2010
• PITCHf/x Summit 2010 - Recaps
• PITCHf/x Summit Recap and Presentations
• PITCHf/x Summit: Introducing HITf/x
• PITCHf/x Tools
• PITCHf/x Umpire cards and heat maps
• PITCHf/x v BIS
• PITCHf/x, R, and XML Package
• PITCHf/x: Blogger v Blogger
• Pitching and Game Theory
• Pitching and hitting of World Series teams
• Pitching Around Batters
• Pitching Components
• Pitching expanding the strike zone
• Pitching expanding the strike zone, part 2
• Pitching Forecasts 2009: Head-to-Head
• Pitching helmet
• Pitching is simple... Brian Bannister made it complicated
• Pitching machines until age 16?
• Pitching Measure: call for comments
• Pitching mechanics primer
• Pitching on short rest in the post-season, since 1995
• Pitching over the course of a game
• Pitching Rule 5 picks in high-leverage situations
• Pitching to contact and FIP
• Pitching to the corners, part one
• Pitching while injured
• Pitching, Defense, and a George Brett
• Pizza on baseball's american culture
• Pizza on the baseball pysche
• Pizza's fielding system: OPA!
• Place Hitting
• Plate Discipline v2
• Platoon Advantage
• Platoon advantage by time of day
• Platoon splits
• Platoon splits by pitch type
• Platoon splits recap
• Platooning: but not by hand
• Plausible deniability of circumventing caps
• Play-in game
• Play-in game is a go
• Play-In game, retro-history
• Play-Index expanded
• Play-ins for the playoffs
• Playbook on Maddux v Molina
• Player and Position File 2010
• Player GPS
• Player ID Mappings 2009
• Player in 1994 had a SLG 100 points higher than any other season in his career: admits to NO PED
• Player safety? Better late than never
• Player Won-Loss Records
• Player Won-Loss Records, Part 2
• Player Won-Loss Records, Part 3
• Player-mascots
• Player-owners
• Player-owners
• Players having greater respect for other
• Players improve the second year of a 2-yr contract?
• Players leave money on the table, fans STILL not appeased
• Players policing themselves
• Players self-policing
• Players take responsibility as a role model seriously...
• Players to foreclose on
• Players who can pitch and hit
• Players who seemingly "lost their power" for no apparent reason.
• Playing the race card on the free agent market
• Playing time levels for the Hall of Fame
• Playoff games in the regular season
• Playoff home advantage, NL/AL
• Playoff Mail of the Day
• Playoffs v regular season
• Please Don't Hurt My Feelings
• Please explain: Kevin Jarvis
• Podcast recommendation: Winning streaks and teammates
• Points shaving
• Poisson Distribution
• Poisson soccer
• Polanco, Jeter and tomatoes
• Polanco, Jeter and tomatoes, part 2
• Polishing raw players
• Politicians using baseball players to drum up their own profile
• Poll Results: Best-to-worst 3+ year free agent contracts for the 2010 season
• Poll: I saw the ENTIRE Halladay/Carpenter duel and I thought:
• Poll: "I AM a Yankees fan. My team has 150 million dollars to spend. I'd rather it go to:"
• Poll: "Would you rather... [sac bunt]"
• Poll: (Part 2) You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which do you sign today through 2015?
• Poll: (Part 3) You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which do you sign today through 2015?
• Poll: And the Most Oustanding Pitcher of 2010 is...
• Poll: And the Most Oustanding Player of 2010 is...
• Poll: Battle of the Heavyweights, UZR v DRS
• Poll: Best pitcher performance by a mid-season acquisition
• Poll: Best, Worst Contracts of the year (Free Agents)
• Poll: Chances for Redsox and Royals to surprise
• Poll: Cliff Lee or Stephen Strasburg?
• Poll: Do I subscribe to BPro?
• Poll: Do you post as an alias with a typical-sounding name?
• Poll: Emma Span
• Poll: Equivalent Players
• Poll: For any ten-year period, I like to see __ number of players voted in the Hall of Fame
• Poll: Hall of Fame Ballot - Most Outstanding Players
• Poll: Hall of Fame Ballot - Survivor Island style
• Poll: How certain do you want to be that your team will make the playoffs in 2010?
• Poll: How do you like your Regular Season games?
• Poll: How important is each trait for each fielding position?
• Poll: How many wins will Mark Ellis contribute in 2009?
• Poll: How many wins will O-Dawg contribute in 2009?
• Poll: how to credit a play against a pitcher when involving his fielders
• Poll: I am Brian Cashman / I am Derek Jeter
• Poll: I DO follow the NHL, and my preference for number of teams in the playoffs is...
• Poll: I have been following the fielding threads around here of late and...
• Poll: I prefer evaluating fielding based PRIMARILY on...
• Poll: I visit this blog because I...
• Poll: I would have suspended Lawrie/Alomar for ___ part of the season
• Poll: If a game was scheduled to start at 19:00, what is the latest start you can accept due to rain
• Poll: Is Tango too tough on his peers?
• Poll: Most Outstanding Pitcher 2010
• Poll: Most Outstanding Player 2010
• Poll: Most Outstanding Players of 2009
• Poll: My education background
• Poll: My view of the sacrifice bunt is...
• Poll: Player X created 105 runs in 105 games. AFTER which player would you slot him in, wrt MVP?
• Poll: Rain Delay
• Poll: Strasburg 2012 (Two polls)
• Poll: Strasburg or Jurggens?
• Poll: Strasburg or Verlander?
• Poll: Strasburg v Cliff Lee
• Poll: Strasburg's Pessimistic REST OF SEASON ERA
• Poll: Strasburg's Pessimistic REST OF SEASON ERA (part 2)
• Poll: Survivor-Pitcher Island
• Poll: The Best Baseball Movie is...
• Poll: the chance that Strasburg will post an ERA BELOW 2.50 = the chance he will post an ERA ABOVE
• Poll: the chance that TIM LINCECUM will post an ERA BELOW 2.50 = chance he will post an ERA ABOVE
• Poll: The idea of having the Baseball Abstract Box Set (1977-88) makes me think...
• Poll: The relaunch of WARP
• Poll: Video Review for NHL, NFL
• Poll: What does the Rawlings Gold Glove mean to me?
• Poll: What is the ratio of caught foul tips to dropped foul tips by a catcher?
• Poll: What's your breakeven for 2-for-1 STARTING PITCHER trades?
• Poll: What's your breakeven for 2-for-1 trades?
• Poll: Which sabre-stat do you have little to NO USE for?
• Poll: Would you be interested in paying for a Tangotiger-taught course?
• Poll: Would you vote Raines for the Hall?
• Poll: You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which youngster do you sign for the next 4 years?
• Poll: You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which youngster do you sign today through 2015?
• Poll: Yu, Felix, Strasburg, Kershaw?
• Population of players by birth month
• Posey at the plate
• Posey hits the HR cycle (one-run HR, two-run HR, three-run HR, grand slam)
• Posey wearing down?
• Position-switchers
• Positional Adjustments Primer
• Positional bias in batting left-handed
• Positioning your outfield (and infield) according to the game situation
• Posnanksi's readers are smart
• Possible radical change in UZR methodology - need advice...
• Post-event Tweets of the Fangraphs Live event
• Post-season experience matters?
• Post-season odds
• Posting system: foreclosure of collusive bidding
• Posting system: foreclosure of collusive bidding, part 2
• Potomac Books has paid us our royalties
• Potomac Books Struggles to Pay Writers
• Power or Finesse Pitchers in the Post-season?
• Poz and Gasbags on Parade
• Poz and the IBB
• Poz and WPA: the story stat
• Poz by birth year
• Poz could win Idol and a Pulitzer... who else could do that?
• Poz did the impossible
• Poz discovers FC Lane
• Poz for the HOF?
• Poz getting it wrong again (or at least overstating his case)
• Poz is right
• Poz is the standard-bearer
• Poz is wrong
• Poz meets SI
• Poz on "cheating"
• Poz on Bautista
• Poz on HOF Candidates
• Poz on Lee
• Poz on offense stats
• Poz on playoff structures of various leagues
• Poz on Raines
• Poz on WAR and pitcher wins
• Poz revists 1980. But, what does WPA say?
• Poz sees what Cubs fans see
• Poz v Heyman through Blyleven v Morris
• Poz v Tango
• Poz v USSM
• Poz! Bill James! (ehhh, and Costas)... together! free!
• Poz's implicit rule of thumb for HOF
• Poz's new book
• Poz's ode to WAR
• Poz's Production
• Poz: meet Marcel
• Poz: minus SI, plus USA Today/MLBAM
• Poz: National Sportswriter of the Year
• Poz: The Zieglers
• Practice swings with same or lighter bat, not heavier bat
• Pre-Eulogy to now-ex HOF head Dale Petroskey
• Pre-Introducing Batted Ball FIP
• Pre-Introducing Batted Ball FIP, part 2
• Pre-PZR
• Pre-season NFL or playoff-chase MLB?
• Precision is in the eye of the beholder...
• Predicting injuries
• Prediction 13 years into the future
• Preliminary look at the 2010 arbitration market
• Preparation for the Intangibles Survey
• Preparing for FIELDf/x
• Preselection and postselection
• Presentation on Defense
• Press release disguised as news
• Press Release: Hardcore fans tune-out Gold Glove awards
• Presumption of randomness is not always what we want to test
• Preview Books
• Preview to Run Creation
• Price of a win
• Primary Fielding Position
• Primates Look at Fielding
• Primer on Small Sample Size effects
• Primer on the batter's brain
• Primer on WPA, LI
• Primer on: The need for the positional baseline
• Prince Fielder
• Prince Fielder comparables
• Prince Fielder v Adrian Gonzalez
• Productive Outs - Finally!
• Prof Pepper
• Professional male athlete of a team sport comes out
• Professor Tangotiger
• Project Scoresheet scoring system sucks?
• Projected Arbitration Salaries
• Projecting Pitching Longevity Revisited
• Promotion / Relegation
• Pronouncing acronyms (especially wOBA)
• Pronunciation guide
• Proof of the modified OPS
• Proof that fans don't believe in small sample size
• Proofiness, randumbness
• Proofreading a book
• Proper compensation for Epstein?
• Proper responses to unwritten rules
• Proposed OT rules for NFL
• Proposed rules
• Proposing that academics don't limit themselves to numbers, but (gulp) talk to human beings
• Prosecution calls for a character witness FOR the defense
• Prospect Lists
• Prospect Surplus Value
• ProTrade forecasts
• PS3 Move: MLB 11 The Show
• PSA for Victor Wang
• Pssst… Wanna Meet Neal Huntington and Dan Fox?
• Pssst… Wanna Work at Hardball Times?
• Psst... Chris... Chris Antonetti... over here... wanna work for the Seattle Mariners?
• Psst... wanna hire Tango?
• Psst... wanna intern at BPro?
• Psst... wanna intern for the Astros?
• Psst... wanna intern for the Jays (in the future)?
• Psst... wanna intern for the Orioles?
• Psst... wanna intern for the Reds?
• Psst... wanna intern in Canada?
• Psst... wanna intern with the Yankees?
• Psst... wanna intern with Trackman?
• Psst... wanna work as an MLBAM stringer?
• Psst... wanna work at Baseball Prospectus?
• Psst... wanna work at Baseball Prospectus?
• Psst... wanna work at Baseball-Reference?
• Psst... wanna work at BIS?
• Psst... wanna work at BIS?
• Psst... wanna work at BIS?
• Psst... wanna work at ESPN?
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• Psst... wanna work at Fangraphs?
• Psst... wanna work at Hardball Times?
• Psst... wanna work at MLBAM?
• Psst... wanna work for 7000 hours over the course of 7 months?
• Psst... wanna work for Fangraphs.com?
• Psst... wanna work for Fangraphs.com? (part 2)
• Psst... wanna work for John Dewan?
• Psst... wanna work for Kristi Dosh?
• Psst... wanna work for MLB.com?
• Psst... wanna work for MLB.com?
• Psst... Wanna work for Sean Forman?
• Psst... wanna work for the Anaheim Ducks?
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• Psst... wanna work for the Cleveland Indians?
• Psst... wanna work for the Cleveland Indians?
• Psst... wanna work for the Diamondbacks?
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• Psst... wanna work for the Reds?
• Psst... wanna work for the Yankees?
• Psst... wanna work for Trackman?
• Psst... wanna work for, uh, some unnamed MLB team?
• Psst... wanna work in MLB?
• Psst... wanna work in the NFL?
• Psst... wanna write for the Hardball Times Annual?
• Psst… (also) wanna work for the Pittsburgh Pirates?
• Psst… wanna work for Bill James?
• Psst… wanna work for Texas Rangers?
• Public v Private HOF ballots
• Publication bias
• Publish whatever is in a press release
• Puerto Rico and the forced draft
• Pujols
• Pujols and Iannetta versus Abreu and Mathis
• Pujols Cub
• Pujols plus cr-p equals two star players
• Pujols' future
• Pujols, the 57MM$ man
• Pull rate on flyballs
• Pushing back time
• Pythag records
• PythagenPat
• Python for baseball
• PZR
• PZR
• PZR for 2010
• QALPAP
• QB aging patterns (and aging pattens in general)
• Quality of pitchers by count
• Quality of Pitching in NL and AL
• Quality of play in other leagues
• Quantitative Analyst Conference
• Quantum Leap or Wiseguy?
• Question for your Fantasyers
• Question of the Day 06-03
• Question of the Day 6/02
• Question of the Day, 05/29
• Question of the Day, 06/01
• Question of the Day, 06/15
• Question of the night (day)...
• Quick Custom Linear Weights
• Quick ERAs
• Quick Park Factors
• Quick WAR calculator
• Quickest ejection in MLB history?
• Quirks in lotteries
• Quirks in the Win Expectancy Tables
• Quit job to see son pitch in college World Series?
• Quote of the day
• Quotes of 2011
• R language tutorial
• r v r-squared
• r v r-squared, part 2
• R.A. Dickey
• R.I.P. Baseball Toaster
• R.I.P. Tom Boswell, sabermetrician; P.A.L.L.(*) Tom Boswell, human being
• R.I.P. Yankees
• R=.50 at BIP = 1500 for BABIP
• Race Report Card
• Racial bias in card collecting: not the collectors, but the players on the cards
• Radial Bat
• Radical rule: batting order resets every inning
• Raines and Rickey
• Raines and the Race Card
• Raines for the Hall
• Rally's Historical WAR
• Rally's WAR
• Ramblings on ERA+ and ERA#
• Randomization
• Randomness of plus/minus
• Randy Johnson
• Rany and Bill James
• RARP v VORP
• RARP v VORP, take 2
• Rates without Sample Size
• Rating the 2010 projections once again
• Rating the pitching coaches (sorta, maybe)
• Rational exuberance
• Ratios or Rates?
• Ratios to rates
• Raul Ibanez
• Raul Ibanez at the unreal Citizen's Bank Park
• Raw data of Torii and Andruw
• Rawlings and their fielding ballot
• Rays Annual - PDF - for free, plus reliever valuation
• Rays fans pick lineup
• Rays optimal batting order?
• Rays Team Fielding - Best Since 2008?
• Rays v Tigers: Common Opponents
• Rays: acquire pieces, flip them, don't go for free agency
• RBI lies
• RE, bunts, and Larussa
• Re-examining the sac bunt by a pitcher with 1 out and runners on 1st and 3rd
• Re-ordering batting streaks
• RE24
• RE24 and boLI
• RE24/boLI
• Reached Base On Error
• Read Mail of the day: When does a low correlation tells you ALOT?
• Reader Bleg
• Reader bleg: Dominican winter leagues data
• Reader bleg: WAR based points league, inc fielding, looking for owners
• Reader mail of the day: Best Estimate of True Talent
• Reader Mail of the Day: Can you predict a new park to have a neutral factor?
• Reader mail of the day: Chain of Fools
• Reader Mail of the Day: Effect of BABIP on ERA
• Reader Mail of the Day: Environment impacting events
• Reader mail of the day: fielding WAR for DH?
• Reader Mail of the Day: Financial amateurs
• Reader mail of the day: FIP v ERA
• Reader Mail of the Day: Historical Win Rates
• Reader mail of the day: true talent last year, not this year
• Reader mail of the day: Understanding wOBA
• Reader Mail of the Day: What is luck?
• Reader Mail of the Day: Why do we need X years of fielding data? And what about outliers?
• Reader Mail of the day: WPA fails as story stat?
• Reader Mail of the Day: you aren't a graduate yet
• Reader Mail of the Week: RE24
• Reader mail of the week: Regression based on playing time
• Reader mail of the week: starters in relief, relief to start
• Reader Mail of the Week: There's nothing to be wrong about
• Reader Mail of the Week: WPA
• Reader mail of the week: WPA
• Reader post of the day: 4- or 5- man rotation?
• Reader post of the day: B-R.com and WPA
• Reader post of the day: spread in talent
• Reader question of the day
• Reader question of the day: Cabrera v Garnder
• Reader request of the day: Pitcher W/L
• Reader to MLB: Psst... I want to work as a summer intern in the legal department
• Reader's Question of the Day, 06/18
• Real baseball v fantasy baseball
• Real change in talent levels
• Real men don't throw underhanded?
• Reality TV to save low-level sports
• Really?
• Reason #12 why I think Joe Maddon is an idiot...
• Reason #13 why Maddon is...
• Reason #4,218 why you don't want a major league manager doing your taxes
• Reason number 8,176 why ex-players, even great ones, are not ex-perts...
• Rebooted Hall Of Fame
• Rebounds and putouts
• Rebutting MGL's Walk article
• Recent historical salaries
• Recommended reading list
• Reconciling Linear Weights and Runs Created
• Recording Fielder Positioning
• Recreational sabermetrics
• Recurring post of the year
• Redemption Island
• Reds Fans realign team
• Reds Front Office on Sabermetrics
• Redsox fielding metric on Youkilis
• Reduce speed, improve command
• Reducing bias in fielding metrics
• Reducing broken bats
• Regressing observed platoon splits
• Regressing UZR toward the Fans' Scouting Report
• Regression equation for types of pitches versus platoon ratio
• Regression equations for pitcher events
• Regression of Groundball Rates
• Regression toward the mean - proof
• Regression toward the mean, chart style
• Regression, schmegression
• Relationship of performance by days elapsed
• Relative League Strength
• Relay throws by Jeter
• Release point and success
• Release point park factors
• Release point primer
• Release points
• Release points
• Release points
• Relegation in MLB
• Reliability of minor league data
• Reliability of statistics
• Reliability of UZR
• Relief specialization paying off?
• Relieving in high-leverage and low-leverage situations
• Relive a game, graphically
• Relocated Team Doctrine v Stationary Team Doctrine
• Remaining value of contracts
• Replacement fielders
• Replacement level and MVP
• Replacement level catchers
• Replacement Level Fielding
• Replacement level in the media
• Replacement level OF
• Replacement level players not in MLB, 2009
• Replacement Level using Forecasted players
• Replacement Offensive Winning %
• Replacement Pitchers
• Replacement-Level Fielding
• Replacement-level FIP
• Replacement-level manangers
• Replacement-level: playing time
• Replacing a coach... helps?
• Replica tickets
• Request for Vegas data
• Request: MLB service time
• Research conclusions have to be Bayesian
• Researcher of the day: David Lint; Muse of the day: Dave Sheinin
• Resetting Bretty Myers
• Response of a fired head coach
• Rest of season:PECOTA v ZiPS
• Restricted Lists
• Retiring early
• Retro Fangraphs
• Retrosheet Announcement
• Retrosheet Data - Batting, Pitching Hands
• Retrosheet Database, part 1
• Retrosheet Handedness File
• Retrosheet's inner workings
• Retrosheet's Most Wanted
• Retrosheet: Invalid Pitch Codes - as per Clem Comly validation rules
• Retrosheet? Meet Apple!
• Return on high school players drafted, by age
• Revamping the draft
• Revenues for the four major US/Canadian leagues
• Review of Keri's 2%
• Review of Keri's 2%
• Reviewing Bill James minor league forecasts 1993-1995
• Revising MORP
• Revisionist history is more powerful than sabermetrics
• Rewinding Jeter
• Rey Ordonez: 50th best
• Reyes and Betancourt
• Richie Sexson
• Rick Peterson
• Rick Peterson / Bloomberg Sports
• Rick Porcello and his "sinker"
• Ricky Nolasco: great season or forgettable?
• Right, second base is soooo unique that you need experience to play there
• RIP Billy Beane, genius; Welcome Billy Beane, average guy
• RIP George Steinbrenner
• RIP Twitter feed of NHLer Paul Bissonnette
• Rivera is twice (thrice?) the reliever of everyone else
• Rivera pitches inside/outside, but not at all counts
• RJ before Felix: 2004
• Rob Antony, asst GM of Twins
• Rob Dibble was right!
• Rob Neyer touts wOBA
• Rob Neyer's RSS Feed
• Rob Neyer's Tracker
• Robinson Cano's batting spot
• Rod Cross: Smooth patch on a baseball, to get a curve
• Roger Clemens' Summers in Toronto
• Roger Clemens, 1986: Not that good a year?
• Roger Clemens: 75% career winning percentage according to Baseball Prospectus?
• Roids v Greenies
• Rolodex: Psst... wanna work for some major league team?
• Ron Polk
• Rooting for laundry
• Rory Fitzpatrick v2.0
• Rosie Bonds and Mike Gimbel
• Ross Detwiler: Losing to the statistical gods
• Ross Ohlendorf, smartest baseball guy in pro ball?
• Round XXX: Hall of Fame and the gatekeeper drunk with power
• Rounding errors
• Rounding errors in yardage gained
• Rox hangover effect
• Rox VP ok with opposing coaches as umpires
• Roy Halladay's Bobby Orr career
• Roy Halladay's emergence
• Roy Halladay's surplus value
• Roy Halladay's talent level... has improved?
• Roy Smalley, (personal) Hall of Famer
• Rule of Three: competiveness opportunity of a league
• Rule of Three: mathematical proof that MLB is the least competitive of the four sports leagues
• Rules are guidelines
• Rules Changes panel
• Rules of baseball - Quiz
• Run Estimator for Softball Leagues
• Run Estimator Paper - call for review
• Run Expectancy and Markov Chains
• Run Expectancy by Run Environment
• Run expectancy chart on a MLB scoreboard? Yes!
• Run Expectancy Matrix - 2011 is 1969-1992
• Run Expectancy Matrix, 1950-2010
• Run Expectancy, Pitchers and Pinch Hitters
• Run Impact in Parks
• Run Support
• Run value by pitch location
• Run Value of the CS and PK
• Run values by strike zone location
• Run values by the 24 base-out states
• Run values of events
• Run-based similarity scores
• Runner movements on non-steals
• Runners Driven In (RBI - HR)
• Running the gauntlet
• Runs Above Strikeout
• Runs Allowed, Relative to Teammates
• Runs and extra innings
• Runs Anything
• Runs Expectancy table... for college
• Runs Per Win
• Runs Produced
• Runs, Runners Driven In, by Lineup Slot
• Runs-to-win converter
• Russian hockey team killed in plane crash
• rWAR v fWAR: pitchers
• rWAR v fWAR? No. rWAR + fWAR.
• Ryan Anderson: Rise and goes under, then Rise as the undercook
• Ryan Braun and Bayes
• Ryan Braun: how many drug tests?
• Ryan Howard
• Ryan Howard
• Ryan Howard
• Ryan Howard's extension
• Ryan Howard: Elite averageness
• Ryan Howard: Mr September
• Ryan Zimmerman
• Ryan Zimmerman
• Ryne Sandberg's hitting approach
• Saber landscape
• Saber video
• Saber-slant
• Saberist Ari Kaplan with the Cubs
• Saberists predict better than Insiders
• SaberLibrary suggestions?
• Sabermetric article in a high school newspaper
• Sabermetric awards
• Sabermetric awards hub
• Sabermetric Awards: 1. Novel Research Project
• Sabermetric broadcaster
• Sabermetric greats unrecognized by the mainstream
• Sabermetric Lesson: WAR
• Sabermetric Library
• Sabermetric Links
• Sabermetric Moves During The Season
• Sabermetric Moves of the 2008 In-Season
• Sabermetric Moves of the 2008 Pre-Season
• Sabermetric Moves of the 2009 Pre-Season
• Sabermetric moves of the 2010 pre-season
• Sabermetric moves of the 2012 pre-season
• Sabermetric Moves of the Off-Season
• Sabermetric Neophytes: Meet Jeff Kent
• Sabermetric Playoffs
• Sabermetric Primer Book
• Sabermetric radio preparation
• Sabermetric scorn for the triple crown?
• Sabermetric see-saw
• Sabermetric Wiki on Tangotiger.net
• Sabermetrician Curtis Granderson
• Sabermetrico: the world domination continues!
• Sabermetrics = collection of data?
• Sabermetrics and the internet
• Sabermetrics as a religion?
• Sabermetrics at Berkeley
• Sabermetrics broadcaster
• Sabermetrics Class, 101
• Sabermetrics is the Cahill of our Discontent
• Sabermetrics is the center of the baseball blogosphere
• Sabermetrics Library
• Sabermetrics lives!
• Sabermetrics meets Twitter
• Sabermetrics Syllabus
• Sabermetrics, embracing one apostate at a time
• Sabermetrics-approved HOF ballot
• SaberScouting Kyle Drabek
• SABR + Bloomberg + Fangraphs in Phoenix
• SABR 101
• SABR 101 - Bases
• SABR 101 - Outs
• SABR 101 - PITCHf/x tools
• SABR 101 / 111 - Bases and Outs
• SABR 111 - Base values
• SABR 111 - Out value
• SABR 399
• SABR 40 - Alan Nathan, Dave Allen, Josh Kalk, et al
• SABR Analytics presentations, with audio
• SABR Analytics wrap-up
• SABR discount
• SABR going online?
• SABR links
• SABR's By The Numbers
• SABR's Emerald Guide
• SABR40 Marcel outliers
• Sabre-nerd FIP fight: IP or PA, MaryAnn or Ginger? A Primer on creating a metric
• Sabre-office
• Sabremetrics circa 1983
• Sabremetrics for Sabremetrics-sake?
• Sac bunt: Who the hell is Richard Justice?
• Sac bunting on 3-0?
• Sac Bunting Redux
• Sad news:Blyleven elected, will no longer be talked about ever again; Worse news:Morris not elected
• Safe haven for gay athletes
• Salaries lost by team, 2002-2009
• Salary Cap Hit
• Salary caps can be controlled by opposing GMs?
• Salary caps, payroll caps, and revenue sharing
• Salary Scale
• Sale the starter v Sale the reliever: why can't he supposedly start?
• Sample v True Talent
• San Jose: Oakland v San Francisco
• Sanchez and the race to 600 PA
• Sandy Alderson talks to bloggers
• Sandy Koufax = Cliff Lee
• Saves and innings
• SB and CS run values
• SB then and now
• Scaling PITCHf/x
• Schilling and Larkin on WAR
• School paper reports that Kurkjian tells writers to go in their basements and watch a game
• Science Hall of Fame
• Science of Mariano's cutter
• Scientific Baseall
• Scientific Baseball in 1916
• Scientific slugger
• Scoop Rates
• Scoops
• Scorecards
• Scorecasting
• Scorecasting review, part II
• Scorer Bias in the Minor Leagues
• Scoring Distributions
• Scoring First
• Scoring practices not a source for drops in recorded errors?
• Scott Boras is right
• Scott Rolen, Derek Jeter, tomayto, tomahto
• Scouting
• Scouting Ball Player
• Scouting Fielding
• Scouting Jeremy Affeldt
• Scouting Mussina
• Scouting Play-by-play logs
• Scouting plays
• Scouting Report 2011 - By the Fans, For the Fans
• Scouting Report on Managers
• Scouting Report: thanks to Astros and Rockies fans; still looking for more Marlins and Pirates fans
• Scouting, with size
• Scouting-data for forecasting
• Scouting: Fan v Superfan
• Scouts were right, Jeremy Brown can't run
• Scouts' Favorite Players
• Scrapping the compensation system
• Scratching the Holy Grail
• Sean Forman is taking your suggestions
• Sean Forman's bracket
• Search Inside The Book
• Searching for Chase Utley
• Seasonal Leverage Index
• SEC v Marlins
• Second Base--Do Girls Play There?
• Secondary Average
• Secondary Average: the sabermetric gateway drug
• Secret Sauce?
• Secret Sauce? No more!
• Segregation and Inclusion
• Selection bias
• Selective end points AND data mining AND publishing bias rearing their ugly heads again...
• Selective Sampling - How NOT to Choose Players
• Self-policing sportsmen
• Selig reminds me of John Zeigler
• Selig's search for an executive
• Selling beer to someone who looks under 30, is 22, and the legal age is 18
• Selling the present for a better future
• Send your scoresheets
• Sending runner on 3-2 count
• Sending the runner from 3B
• Sending the runner home from 3B
• Sending the runners home
• Sequencing Pitches
• Service Time leveraging
• Servitude is loyalty
• Setting up pitches
• Setup for Forecast Evaluations
• Sex: Correlation Is Not Causation
• Sexiest sports reporters
• Shame on the scout?
• Sharp and soft contacted balls
• Shelley Duncan
• Shift in Aging Patterns
• Shifted Strike Zone
• Shifts
• Shootout = crapshoot
• Should a great hitter bunt against the shift?
• Should a manager sacrifice his team's WE in order to "teach a player a lesson?"
• Should a pitcher have a fair chance at the MVP?
• Should a pitcher take three strikes, rather than (possibly) swing into a DP?
• Should a starter who is pitching a shutout stay in the game?
• Should batters automatically take with a 3-0 count, close game, and RISP?
• Should Buehrle and CJ Wilson even be mentioned in the same sentence?
• Should ERA+ and ERA- adjust for the role of the pitcher?
• Should high HR pitchers pitch in low HR parks?
• Should Ichiro steal more?
• Should Marlins move Hanley Ramirez to another position?
• Should Shane Victorino stop being a switch hitter?
• Should the Holy Players stand next to the Holy Writers in their quest for loudest phony outrage?
• Should the Nats convert Harper to the OF?
• Should the Phillies Have Pulled Cliff Lee With A Big Lead?
• Should they have stopped Andrus instead?
• Should we go to 3-balls and 2-strikes?
• Should we hold BPro accountable for unannounced changes?
• Should you be allowed to trade draft picks?
• Should you bet the under on high-ranked teams?
• Should you practice with a lighter, heavier, or your game bat?
• Should you throw a sinker at Coors?
• Should you walk the bases loaded in a tie game in the ninth inning?
• Should your bullpen carry lefties?
• Shout-outs (to saber-themed blogs)
• Shutdown and Meltdown lists
• Shutdowns and Meltdowns
• Shutdowns and Meltdowns: describing the bullpen story
• Shutup money
• Shyam Das
• SI Vault: Ichiro before Ichiro!
• SI Vault: the first Bill James expose
• SI, Mariners, Fielding
• SIERA
• SIERA, updated
• Sign Vlad to limit Abreu?
• Sim Scores, WAR style
• Similar batted balls... but different
• Similarity Scores for Pitch Types
• Simkus newsletter
• Simple example of regression toward the mean
• Simple Fielding Runs
• Simple Playoff Probability
• Simple PZR
• Simple Zone Rating
• Simpson's Paradox
• Since I was asked...
• Single-manager Careers
• Situational Hitting and Adam Dunn
• Situational Hitting and Pitching
• Situational Pitching
• Situational Wins
• Situational wins of Barry Bonds' walks
• Six Baseball Books for the holidays
• Six Degrees of WOWY
• Six members of the BBWAA suspected of plagiarism, but allowed to vote for Hall of Fame!
• Six-man baseball
• Size of baseball bats to decrease
• Size of NHL players continues to increase every decade, but especially goons
• Size of parks and talent: Be careful about what you are pretty sure is true...
• Skill to DH?
• Skills I learned from sports
• Skip Schumaker
• Sky, take 2 on dollar values of free agent wins
• Skynet Mail of the Future: Pitching Machines
• Slave owners in modern times: NCAA
• Slave Wages
• SLG on flyballs, as a function of groundball tendency of pitcher
• Slider-slider and fastball-fastball better than mixing?
• Sloan Analytics Recap
• Sloan twitter feed: #ssac
• Slugging on Balls In Play
• Small sample size BABIP
• Small sample sizitis
• Small team sample size: Can anyone just write anything they want because they have a "title"?
• Small team sample size: Do I care that the Tigers are 7-13, the WS are 11-7, or that Flo is 12-7?
• Smart Hitting
• Smartest athletes
• SME peer review
• Smokeless tobacco in MLB
• Smoltz and Eck
• Smoltz's Five Homeruns
• So you think pitchers are smart?
• Soccer per-game attendance now above NBA/NHL
• Social Experiments: failing Journalism 101
• Solving Barry Zito, or Why Does DIPS Not Work With Him?
• Some basic zone-type defensive numbers for Jacoby Ellsbury
• Some of the things you wanted to know about Regression Toward The Mean, and didn't know how to ask
• Some weekend fun
• Someone asked about stupid manager decisions...
• Someone Else's Lab: Log5
• Something you wanted to know about revenue sharing but were afraid to ask
• Sometimes I think I can watch a pitcher for one inning and assess him pretty well...
• Soria as a starter?
• Soria F/X
• Soriano F/X
• Soriano or Swisher?
• Sort of a Review of Canseco's book, Vindicated
• Sparky Anderson
• Speaking of having no clue as to the efficacy or wisdom of the sacrifice attempt...
• Speculations and suspicions: The Yu Darvish Story, Jeff Bagwell, and being a sports "reporter"
• Speedster on first, fastball hitter at bat: what do you do?
• Spending for playoff spots
• Spider request
• Spin movements, for the league
• Spinning Beckett
• Spitting delaying honor
• Splits based on spray
• Splitting the batting lines into binomial metrics
• Splitting up pitching stats
• Sponsoring MLB jerseys
• Sports Betting
• Sports Business Data
• Sports calls
• Sports Economic Papers
• Sports Economics research rankings
• Sports reading in Manhattan
• Sports Writers Unions
• Sports-nerd fight and slave-labor
• Sportsmanlike and child labor
• Sportvision Summit
• Spotting Clutchiness, Chokiness
• Sprayability relative to pitch speed, type
• Spread in fielding: how much is there?
• Spread in talent
• Spread in Talent
• Spread In Talent, Pitching
• Squeezing Brandon League
• Stan The Puppet?
• Standards for PITCHf/x viewpoint: catcher or pitcher?
• Stars at all 8 positions
• Start of the LOOGY era
• START Rushing Them To The Majors
• Start thinking outside the NEW box
• Start v Relief: Max
• Start with the regression, then try to interpret it
• Starter / relief
• Starter v Relief, 1953-2008
• Starter, reliever or swingman?
• Starters and Relievers
• Starters and Relievers in the 9th Inning and Score Differential
• Starters going deep
• Starting from scratch
• Starting Pitcher on a great day v Closer
• Starting Pitching is one third of baseball... why do we give them a full win?
• Starting Run Expectancy
• State of fielding
• State of MLB
• Stathead links
• Statistical basics
• Statistical lamposts and basements
• Statistical Significance, or the reason that mathematician Ron Fisher is on MGL's "On Notice" Board
• Statistics: if a blogger does it, it's crap; if a coach does it, it's great
• Stats AND Scouts
• Stats v Observation
• Statspeak blog
• Stealing Home
• Stealing in high-leverage situations
• Stealing signs in Toronto?
• Stealing with one out to go in the game
• Step by Step Gameday data extractor app
• Step-by-step PITCHf/x
• Steroids Escrow Account
• Steve Trachsel, clutch god
• Stinkin' thinkin' is not just for addicts
• STL/LAD game blunders
• Stolen Bases and PITCHf/x
• Stolen Bases in college ball
• Stop playing the all-star game?
• Stop the (prediction) insanity!
• Stop the insanity: do NOT vote for Brian Cartwright
• Stopwatch runners
• Stopwatches
• Straight poop on OF fielding
• Strasburg -> Tommy John
• Strasburg 2010 v 2011
• Strasburg 2011
• Strasburg and Leake... as boys
• Strasburg disdainful at immaturity of... 13yr old boy
• Strasburg f/x
• Strasburg has the best stuff?
• Strasburg II
• Strasburg predictions
• Strasburg v Ackley
• Strasburg v Liriano (as rookies)
• Strasburg's mechanics
• Strasburg's PITCHf/x after 5 games
• Strasburg-type of analysis
• Strategic Walks
• Streakiness
• Streaks
• Streaks
• Streaks: Has the whole world lost its collective mind?
• Strength of Schedule: Lee v Halladay
• Stress, not fastball speed, is what it costs you to pitch from the stretch
• Strike zone sizes
• Strike zone, based on fastball v off-speed
• Strikeout, walks: ratio or differential?
• Strikeouts and Walk spring numbers matter?
• Strikeouts of our discontent
• Stringer bias in minor league parks
• Strong Criticisms of The Book
• Student Special: THE BOOK, $9.95
• Studes takes on WAR graphs
• Stupid Ballplayers?
• Subject matter non-experts
• Subjective is objective
• Subverting the Intentional walks
• Success and Failure Rates of Top MLB Prospects
• Suggestion Box: "Tango, I wish you would do more of..."
• Summarizing late inning starter and reliever performance...
• Summary opinion without evidence
• Super 2 date for 2010
• Super Simple Baseball Game
• Super Two
• Super-imposing batted balls from one park onto another
• Superior and Inferior Starts
• Superiority of AL over NL
• Superstitions, real or not? "It is not clear."
• SuperVORP
• Supporting the eye-test?
• Suppose you had a game-by-game Cy Young award
• Supreme Court Sluggers
• Supreme court to NFL: ha-ha
• Surplus value of non-free agents
• Suspended games
• sUZR v bUZR
• Swapping positions
• Swimming in debt
• Swing and miss
• Swing area
• Swing area predictability
• Swing rates
• Swing Zones
• Swinging strikes, but no strikeouts?
• Swingmen PITCHf/x
• Switch Hitters
• Switch-hitters batting same-handed against changeup pitchers
• Switch-pitcher
• Syphilis and Bayes
• T-206
• Taking on 3-1: What are they thinking?
• Taking the jibber-jabber out of OPS
• Talent disparity inter-conference in sports leagues
• Talent distribution in MLB: bell-shaped, or right-tail?
• Talent or Timing? Via Cain v Shields
• Talking PITCHf/x
• Talking pitching
• Tallying Web Gems
• Tandem pitchers
• Tango On Demand
• Tango's Lab: Deconstructing FIP
• Tango's Lab: forecasting players who switch teams
• Tango's Lab: FutureFIP
• Tango's Lab: Game Score
• Tango's Lab: Marcel Percentiles
• Tango's Lab: Marcel Percentiles for non-MLB players
• Tango's Lab: Playing Time Percentiles (preliminary)
• Tango's Lab: Relief advantage on inherited/bequeathed runners
• Tango's Lab: Simple Baseball Card Game
• Tango's Lab: wOBA by base state
• Tango/ESPN - Best one-year free agent team 100 million$ can buy
• Tango/ESPN - Cy Young meets Oscars
• Tango/ESPN - DH
• Tango/ESPN - growth in MLB players by domestic/foreign
• Tango/ESPN - How much for Joe Mauer?
• Tango/ESPN - payroll inequity
• Tango/ESPN - Pure Rookie Pitchers
• Tango/ESPN - team spending efficiency
• Tango/ESPN - the year after the breakout year
• Tango/ESPN archives
• Tangotiger = ESPN Blogger
• Tangotiger challenge of the day
• Tangotiger challenge of the day: If not WAR, then what?
• Tangotiger v "longtime sportswriter and editor"
• Tangotiger v Morgan Ensberg
• Tangotiger v Rodney Fort
• Tangotiger v Steve Wulf
• Tasteful sex appeal
• Taxman
• Teaching sabermetrics
• Teaching sabermetrics at school
• Team Forecasts
• Team Health Reports
• Team Health Reports
• Team Marketing Report - Fan Cost Index - Is it Crap?
• Team most likely to win its division?
• Team Ratings
• Team to root for, scientifically speaking
• Team v Team over de-signed prospect
• Team WAR
• Team-specific PITCHf/x
• Teams are given budgets
• Technique for clustering pitches from PITCHf/x
• Technology at MLB parks for fans
• Ted Tevan, RIP
• Ted Williams, saberist
• Teenager single-handedly throws a no-hitter
• Teixeira and UZR (again)
• Teixeira, take 2
• Tempered Yu Forecast
• Tennis clock
• Tennis markov code
• Tennis/golf rankings... for pitchers!
• Terrible managing?
• Testing baseballs
• Testing catcher framing numbers
• Testing PITCHf/x accuracy
• Testing run estimators
• Testing SIERA
• Testing the 2007-2010 Forecasting Systems - Official Results
• Testing the 2007-2010 Forecasting Systems - Official Results - Part 2
• Testing the 2007-2010 Forecasting Systems - Official Results - Part 3
• Testing the 2007-2010 Forecasting Systems - part 2 - Does Marcel over-regress?
• Testing the 2007-2010 Forecasting Systems - part 3 - head-to-head sample
• Testing the 2007-2010 Forecasting Systems for Batting, part 1
• Testing the binomial distribution theory in baseball
• Testing the fielding systems
• Testing the run modelers - why?
• Texas Rangers OF, 2008
• Text of a new counting stat + talk of WAR
• Thank you Bob Costas
• Thank you Keith Law... and I acknowledge Will Carroll's contribution
• Thank you Mr Forman
• Thank you Rob Neyer
• Thank you Zach Greinke for leading the FIP parade!
• That onside kick to open the 2nd half
• That will be 300,000,000$ please... paid in 3 installments
• The "Balance" theory
• The "blip" factor in measuring fielding
• The "Carry" of a Fly Ball
• The "Free" Agent Compensation System
• The 100 Pitches Limit
• The 11-second single
• The 2-run sac fly
• The 20-inning game
• The 2006 MVP, Clutchy, Chokey Hitters
• The 2006 Scouting Report, By The Fans, For The Fans
• The 2006 Scouting Report: Results
• The 2006 Winners of the Worst-Used Relievers of the Year
• The 2007 Scouting Report, By The Fans, For The Fans
• The 2008 College Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans
• The 2008 Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans
• The 2009 Fans Scouting Report - Balloting now open
• The 2009 Fans Scouting Report - last chance
• The 2009 Mariners: when Stats and Scouts converge
• The 2010 Hardball Times Annual
• The 2010 Team Forecasts
• The 3-0 count
• The 60 Greatest Moments in MLB in the Last 60 Years
• The 7-inning pythag
• The 8 most disliked people in sports... are not white
• The 9th inning reliever
• The A's never swing on 3-0?
• The anti-Shea Hillebrand
• The apocalypse is upon us: an 18-yr old is negotiating with more than 1 team
• The arguments AGAINST Mauer
• The Art of Stealing
• The article that writes itself
• The Assetification of our athletes
• The Attempt to Eliminate the IBB... in 1920
• The babblefest of Jack Morris, best pitcher of the decade
• The Baseball Clock
• The Baseball Codes
• The Baseball Cube
• The Baseball Economist
• The Baseball Express
• The Bat-Glove
• The best and worst 82mph fastball in baseball
• The Best and Worst Pitchers
• The Best Catcher of the Retrosheet era
• The Best Current Players Not in the Hall of Fame
• The best defenders (according to UZR) of the decade
• The Best in hockey analysis 2010
• The best MLE's in 2010
• The best of Primer while I was on vacation?
• The best of this week at BPro
• The best of this week at... Baseball-Reference
• The best player in baseball
• The best short-career CF of our generation
• The best- and worst- fielding catchers in baseball
• The bias of human stringers
• The Big Unit
• The binomialized function of EqA
• The Blogosphere's biggest team fans
• The Blue Ribbon panel, 9 years later
• The Book - In Stock
• The Book - Available For Pre-Order From Amazon
• The Book - book review
• The Book - High School Edition
• The Book - Out of Stock
• The Book - under 14$
• The Book an example of good story telling? I won't dispute the Roosevelt University Writing Center
• The Book and Amazon
• The Book at the All-Star Game
• The Book authors seeking outside counsel licensed in NJ or VA
• The Book is now availale
• The Book reviewed in Great Britain
• The Book: written in the style of Isaac Asimov
• The break-even point is to start with the ball on the 20 yard line
• The break-even point of stealing home
• The Canadian Role in Integrating Major League Baseball
• The case against Felix and Cy
• The case against the W/L record
• The Case for the DH
• The Church of Baseball, part 1
• The Church of Baseball, part 2
• The Cleveland Indians own the "Intellectual" "Property" to this logo
• The clocked game of baseball
• The Closed Period
• The closing of Yankee Stadium
• The Clutch Project
• The Color of Clutch
• The Coming Hall of Fame Apocalypse
• The compassionate triple-play umpire?
• The Complete Dewan Fielding Plus/Minus
• The Complete Game Save
• The continuum of wins, from a pitcher's won/lost record, through WPA, to WAR
• The cost of high pitches at a young age
• The Cruel and Compassionate Umpire
• The D'backs and WPA
• The Dave Duncan effect
• The death of the 300-game winner?
• The Death of the Howe News Bureau
• The difference between Sean Avery and A-Rod
• The dirty secret: WAR aging path for great players
• The disappearance of Zito's second curve
• The dynamics of the Pirates
• The Earned Perfect Game
• The effect of replacing your coach mid-season
• The effect on subsequent batters on seeing someone hit by a pitch
• The Emperors Have No Clothes
• The end of the world is coming
• The Endy Chavez family of players
• The enemy among us
• The ESPN rest-of-season "Projection System"
• The existence of outliers doesn't preclude luck as the cause
• The Extra 2%
• The extra playoff team
• The face of UZR, the face of Scouting
• The fallacy of "paying too much for out years"
• The fallacy of Pythagorean
• The fastest players
• The fate of the Sabermetric Wiki
• The Fielding Bible Voters
• The fielding highlight reel
• The Fielding of Derek Jeter
• The fielding system approach I've been preaching
• The first Hardball Times Annual available for download!
• The first time a pitcher has ever intentionally thrown at a batter....
• The Forecasters Challenge 2009
• The formula for not voting for Tim Raines
• The four faces of Arroyo
• The Four Horsemen
• The Fourth Amendment, and Baseball
• The future of fielding... is common sense graphicfied
• The future of fielding... is common sense graphicfied, part 2
• The future of sabermetrics
• The future of splits
• The future of your team
• The Futures Market
• The Game Inside The Game
• The genius of Brian Bannister
• The good side of sac bunting
• The Great Clutch Project
• The Great Clutch Project has started
• The greatest fielder ever, who couldn't hit a lick?
• The greatest forecasting system is... Marcel?
• The greatest game of chicken ever
• The greatest LHP of all-time... pitched 80 years ago?
• The Greatest Platoon of all-time
• The Greatest Play Ever
• The greatest single-game reliever performance of my generation?
• The greatest statue in baseball: Jackie Robinson in Montreal
• The greatness, or not, of Josh Hamilton
• The Hall Of Fame
• The hate for UZR
• The historical uniqueness of David Wright's HR collapse
• The History of the wOBA, part 1
• The HITf/x Database
• The Holy Writer removes his halo
• The Holy Writers name award after a sworn racist
• The Holy Writers strike again!
• The Hot Hand
• The HR per FB skill
• The Ichiro interview
• The ideal Playoff Structure
• The Impact of Pitch Counts and Days of Rest on Performance
• The impact of PITCHf/x, as seen by a non-saberist
• The importance of player makeup
• The inconsistent AJ Burnett
• The Individual Perfect Game
• The injury experts
• The Injury Zone
• The insider-ing of PITCHf/x-ers
• The intangibles of prospects
• The Joba Rules? How about the Papelbon Program?
• The juiced ball
• The Last Expos player
• The Last Iconic Baseball Card
• The latest in park factors
• The layman's version of a PITCHf/x database
• The legend of Ichiro
• The length of playoff games
• The Lineup Spectrum
• The Little Things
• The little things: NHL (and beyond)
• The long-awaited Injury Database
• The MadStatter
• The magic of 100 pitches is new?
• The mainstreaming of fielding stats continues
• The Marcels takes on the field
• The Marcels' team-forecasts doing well
• The Mariners Play Boring Baseball
• The Mariners summit
• The Mauer forecast
• The Measure of Power
• The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is coming!
• The Modern Day begins in 1947
• The Moneyball Anomaly and Payroll Efficiency
• The Moneyball Network
• The monthly "WPA, Primer, and me" thread
• The Montreal Expos of the NHL
• The more you see a pitch, the better you hit off that pitch
• The Most (in)Complete Hitter in Baseball is...
• The most meaningful stat according to players is...
• The most valuable pitchers in baseball
• The Museum of Science: Neyer/James lecture.
• The Myth of the President’s Trophy Curse
• The Nathan-less Twins, or how the Media shuts up all of a sudden
• The NCAA Totalitarian Regime News
• The need for the defacto replacement level
• The New Baseball-Reference is coming
• The New Baseball-Reference is here
• The New BPro
• The new BPro Fantasy
• The new Games Behind
• The new Greg Harris
• The new Kerry Wood
• The New Speed Scores
• The New Triple Crown
• The New WARP
• The new WARP is here!
• The next 5 years
• The next Ensberg challenge
• The Next Leap In Data Recording and Distribution
• The NHL's super-secret Constitution: Revealed!
• The no-doubt-about-it best prospects evah
• The non-static nature of a young groundball pitcher
• The null hypothsis does not always have to be zero, does it?
• The odds of a pitcher coming in and throwing 12 balls in 13 pitches...
• The Odds Ratio Method
• The Official Replacement-Level Thread
• The ol' A+B worse than C trick
• The Old Diamond-Mind
• The One Thing I'd Like To Know More Of Today
• The one time where I am 100% in agreement with ESPN readers
• The Out Pitch
• The PCA Manifest
• The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco
• The Perfact Game Theory decision matrix model
• The Perfect DH rule
• The perfect mistake
• The Perfect Run Modeler
• The Perfect Run Modeler - Perl version
• The perversity of sports salaries?
• The phony outrage of PED (in baseball only) continues
• The Physics of Why Baseballs Do What They Do
• The Picasso death effect
• The Poz challenge to simplicity
• The Poz full-time at SI
• The Poz goes FJM on Harold Reynolds' a$$ - gather around the kids
• The Poz goes FJM on Steve Phillips' a$$ - gather around the kids
• The pressure of playing with Tiger Woods... when he's losing
• The problem with saberists
• The Producers
• The Publisher of The Book (Potomac Books) has finally paid us our royalties
• The quality of line drives is not strained
• The Race Database
• The real MLB HR record
• The relic that is the compensation system
• The renewables
• The Replacement Pitchers
• The Return of the Baseball Abstract? No, the next best thing...
• The Running Men
• The Ryan Howard Plan - 8 years ago
• The Sabermetric Awards
• The Sac Bunt
• The Sauer/Hakes Moneyball spreadsheet
• The Science of Fielding, a Century Ago
• The Science of Hitting, with Saberist Morgan Ensberg
• The Science of Shortstop
• The search for r=1
• The season is too long... to crown a champion
• The Secret behind Ben Zobrist
• The Secret Recipes of the Run Expectancy Matrix
• The Shift
• The shift, by pitch type
• The short and tall of it
• The shorter the game, the more the upsets
• The Simpsons meets Sabermetrics
• The Single Entity 30_or_32-Franchise Business
• The single price
• The SlumpBusters
• The sports world according to Bill James
• The state of analytics
• The state of fielding sabermetrics in MLB
• The Stats Man
• The story as only WPA can find
• The story of Win Expectancy
• The Studes interview
• The supply and demand of coaches
• The sweet spot of making the playoffs
• The sweet spot of the playoff hunt and trading for players
• The Tangotiger Archive Lives
• The ten year aging curve
• The test for unfair PED
• The three faces of the IBB in the All-Star Game
• The Tidy Lie
• The Tiered Hall of Fame Plaque Room
• The timing of Vlad
• The transformation of Miguel Tejada?
• The transformation of the Hyphenator
• The triple double-zero seasons
• The Truth About HGH
• The TTO player, or the singles hitter who never Ks?
• The Two Sides of Win Expectancy
• The two uncertainties of UZR
• The umpires' strike zone, by count
• The uncertainty of save percentages
• The Universal Player ID and Biographical Data project
• The value of a first round pick
• The value of a metric is not in its consistency, but in how it correlates to what we want
• The Value of the Stolen Base
• The Veteran's Committee
• The visual talent pie
• The Visual WPA Project
• The Wall Street Journal's "The Future of Sports" event
• The Witchhunt
• The worst clutch hitter of the year so far is...
• The worst hitting season of all-time?
• The worst umpiring and baserunning I've ever seen in the same game...
• The worth of SB, HR, and all other categories, in Fantasy Baseball
• The wrong-handed and black Shoeless Joe
• The Yankees Redsox story: through the eyes of WPA
• The zero-level player
• There are some things a manager does that should get him fired on the spot...
• There's been no expansion since 1969.
• These are the things a manager needs to do to successfully "manage a bullpen:"
• Thesis Paper: call for review
• Third-base coach
• This article by yours truly looks at two interesting things about defense
• This Day In Genderism
• This day is silly golf rules: baseball-style
• This generation of pitchers
• This hour's primer of the week: Win Shares
• This month in replacement level talk
• This particular criticism of UZR is unfounded
• This time it (still doesn't) counts
• This week in golf insanity
• This week in NCAA eligibility: golf
• This week in player cowardice...
• This week in primers: wOBA
• This week in retroactive championship removal insanity
• This Week in Silly Baseballness
• This week in Tangotiger v Primer regarding WPA
• This week in zero-tolerance golf rules
• This week in... the baseball blogosphere
• This week's primer: UZR
• This week's primer: WAR
• This week's replacement thread...
• This week's sign of the apocalypse
• This will only hurt a little...
• This year's contender for sanctimonious eloquence
• This year's winner of the "Lamest Reason For Not Voting For Raines"
• Thoughts from the 2009 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports
• Three stages of behavioural evolution
• Three Stars of the Game
• Three straights great games
• Three wishes for your sabre genie
• Three-area strike zone
• Through-Counts
• Throw a curve ball and hope for the best
• Throwing a game
• Throwing Over to First
• THT 2011 Annual is here
• THT Annual 2011
• THT Annual sent to printer
• THT Graphical Reports
• THT Reference Library
• Ticket prices by seat location
• Ticket prices cut in half if the team doesn't make the playoffs
• Ticket Pricing
• Tie-breaking scenarios
• Tiger then Albert: is Pujols a changed hitter?
• Tiger Woods? Tiger Wuss!
• Tigers batting lineup
• Tim Lincecum will submit the following offer:
• Tim Lincecum's changeup
• Tim Raines
• Tim Raines - HOF 2010
• Tim Raines love
• Tim Raines: a player teams truly feared
• Tim Wakefield
• Tim, Tim, Tim
• Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim
• Time between pitches
• Time between pitches and BABIP
• Time of Game
• Time Zone change and effect on performance
• Time: Bill James
• Times Through the Batting Order
• Times through the order with the 9th inning removed...
• Tiring fastballs
• To BBWAA:
• To count or not to pitch count
• To Hippeaux
• To pinch-hit or not?
• To Pujols or not to Pujols
• To Pujols or not to Pujols, part 2
• To R or R-Squared?
• To Shift or not To Shift
• Today in strawman
• Today's Teixeira article
• Today's this week's primer: wOBA
• Today's UZR Primer
• Todd Walker, Jose Vidro
• Tom Tippett
• Tom Verducci's conflict of interest
• Tom-AY-to, Tom-AH-to, J-EE-ter, Pol-AH-nco
• Tony Paul gives us his opinion, by letting Roy Halladay speak for him
• Too much is made of camaraderie and chemistry and all that stuff
• Top 10 Nonpitcher prospects according to Oliver
• Top 10 prospects for each team, all on one page
• Top 100 Baseball America prospects
• Top 50 Free Agents
• Top AL Pressboxes
• Top flight pitchers are good deals?
• Top Free Agent Pitchers
• Top Prospect List to end all Top Prospect List
• Top Prospects
• Top Prospects of 2003
• Top Sports doctor can't prove the impact of curveballs on youngsters one way or the other
• Torii v Sarge Jr
• Total WARP by original signing team
• TotalZone leaders
• TotalZone updates
• TotalZone, a new fielding measure
• Tough times for small-market teams
• Tracking flyball video
• Tracking players' movement
• Trackman
• Trackman Leaderboards
• Tracy Ringolsby
• Trade Trees
• Trade Values
• Trademark of pictures with logos
• Trademarking "sabermetrics"?
• Trading Albert Pujols?
• Trading for draft picks
• Trading location for velocity and movement
• Trading speed for location
• Trading the face of the franchise
• Transacation fees and no-trade clauses
• Transaction interface
• Translating homeruns
• Translating HR
• Translating Relievers into W/L records
• Trends in fastball speed
• Trends in spray charts?
• Trivia of the day, with a bonus f.you to Pitching wins
• Troy Tulowitzki: saberist?
• True HR Park Factors (or at least something we can regress towards)
• True talent all-stars
• True Talent Levels for Sports Leagues
• True Talent v Observations
• True Talent v Sample Performance
• True talent, based on surrounding years
• Trueer-ish Park Factors
• TruMedia - platform for PITCHf/x
• Trying not to win so hard
• Trying to explain UZR and fielding systems to the uninitiated
• Trying to explain Win Probability
• Trying to score from 3B, down by 1, with 1 out left in the game
• Tulo
• Turner, Montana... the Saskatoon of America?
• Turning children into saberists
• TV and radio analysts are the same guys that manage teams, at least in the old days...
• TV in 3D
• TV watchers, in tuneup for the Ryder Cup, sets their sights on Ohio's smoking ban
• TV watching to record data: a good idea?
• Twins Prospect Book
• Twins upset they are not making money from NBA ad
• Twitter mail of the day
• Twitter to follow
• Twitter: Leverage
• Two faces of Posnanski's readers
• Two female high school pitchers facing each other
• Two kinds of luck
• Two pitchers at the same time
• Two players have the same stats: one is much younger. Which one will be better next year?
• Two points of contact on one swing
• Two random observations from game 6 of the NLCS
• Two to Four MPH leads to one fewer run per game
• Two wins a season for 17 seasons is... almost nothing?!?
• Two-conference, no-division league
• Two-thirds of what I've been asking for is double what I want
• Two-thirds of what I've been asking for is half of what I want
• Ty Cobb speaks on Game Theory and Probability Theory
• Type A Free Agents
• Typical bad managing by a bad manager...
• Ubaldo = Regression, using PITCHf/x
• ULTIMATE BASEBALL THE GAME
• Ultimate baserunning
• Ultimate in survivor bias
• Umpire Call Database
• Umpire Ejection Data
• Umpire stats
• Umpire sticking his nose where it don't belong
• Umpire strike zone size
• Umpire strike zones by count
• Umpire Zone Evaluation
• Umpires and close plays
• Umpires and counts
• Umpires like catchers as batters
• Uncertainties around win expectancy (WE) and changes in WE
• Uncertainty of data: fear and options
• Unconscious predictions
• Understanding DIPS
• Understanding Ryan Howard's WAR
• Understanding WPA for starting pitchers
• Unearned things
• Unexplained variance
• Unfrozen caveman saberist: wOBA in the dugout
• Unified Forecasts
• Unintentional intentional walks
• Unintentional intentional walks to elite unprotected college hitters
• Union and management heart each other
• Unleveraging Win Probability
• Unofficial Fangraphs NYC recap
• Unusual Strategy
• Unwritten rules that don't need to be written?
• Updated UZR
• Updated version of Total Zone, on Fangraphs
• Updated WAR
• Updating BaseRuns
• Upset at not bringing in Rivera in a low leverage situation?
• USA Today owns Baseball-Reference?
• Usefulness of batter/pitcher matchups?
• Useless Friday afternoon post
• Using HitTracker to predict ARod's 600th HR
• Using injuries for forecasting
• Using more specific populations for regression
• Using objective data for fielding
• Using Our Baseball Guts
• Using PITCHf/x to see who crouches
• Using wOBA
• Using WOWY and positional switchers to determine the fielding value of each position
• UZR 101
• UZR 2000-2005: Infielders and Outfielders
• UZR 2003-2008
• UZR and the 2008 Gold Glove awards
• UZR Background
• UZR bias by FB%
• UZR for hitters
• UZR in MSM
• UZR leaders, 2002-2012
• UZR now available weekly
• UZR on Fangraphs: using BIS on Ichiro
• UZR positional adjustments
• UZR positional adjustments, revised with 2008 UZR
• UZR Primer
• UZR v Fans, via Coors
• UZR v PlusMinus
• UZR v PMR v UZR
• UZR video
• UZR yapfest
• UZR, 2007, complete list
• UZR, Release 2010 Version 1
• UZR... used in a conversation without prompted by graphics
• UZR:new and improved
• Value of a called pitch
• Value of an NHL draft pick
• Value of draft picks in NHL
• Value of injury-prone starters
• Value of knowing performance from 4 years ago?
• Value of scarcity
• Value split between pitchers and non-pitchers
• Valuing a franchise
• Valuing relievers
• Vargas
• Various implementations of WAR; talking WPA/LI
• VEgas odds
• Velocity as a scouting variable
• Velocity Loss
• Verducci Effect, part 2
• Verducci v "Blogger Murray Chass"
• Verducci v Abreu
• Verducci Year After Effect: Get over yourself, goodbye
• Verlander complains?
• Verlander or Strasburg, part 2
• Verlander, ace reliever
• Very cool gizmo!
• Vetting power of journalists
• Video of the week
• Video scouts: saberists that roll up their sleeves and watch a game... and a speadsheet
• Vin Mazzaro
• Virtual Work Stoppage
• Visual Expos
• Visual fielding plays
• Visual Marcels
• Visualizing wOBA
• Vlad's WAR above borderline-HOF WAR
• Vladimir
• Voiding contracts
• Volunteers for Retrosheet
• VORP v RARP
• VORP, JustVORP, Rany, Murray Chass, and everything else
• Vote for the Worst Player in MLB
• Vote: Have you bought The Book? Did you like it?
• Vote: How much for ARod
• Vote: How much for CC?
• Vote: How much life left in Juan Pierre?
• Vote: How much to pay Cliff Lee?
• Vote: How predictive are partial season stats?
• Vote: Most Outstanding Players of 2008
• Vote: Vidro : NO Mariners fans allowed
• Vote: Vidro : ONLY for Mariners fans
• Vote: Who is the Worst Pitcher in MLB?
• W/W - Wins over Willie
• Waiting for the death of a child
• Walk rates and first pitch strikes
• Walking Bonds
• Walking Bonds with the Bases Loaded
• Walks for GB pitchers are less costly?
• Walks: Of learners and idiots
• Wall Street Journal and The Bunt
• Wall Street Journal: Wisdom of the Crowds
• Wanna do some peer review?
• Wanna work for the Astros?
• Want to win the World Series? Don't give up more runs than the league average
• WApR - Wins Above peer-Replacements
• WAR aging curves, by quality of performance
• WAR aging curves, with no survivor bias issue
• WAR and Projections vs. Salary
• WAR and the Rule V draft
• WAR and WPA on ESPN2
• WAR as an example of critical thinking
• WAR before WAR - 1915 World Series
• WAR by Age for HOF selected by BBWAA
• WAR comparison
• WAR Fantasy Draft
• WAR for catchers
• WAR glossary
• WAR Lords
• WAR of the all-star game participants
• WAR to dollar valuation, but roster space management
• WAR updated on Baseball-Reference
• WAR v MVP spectrum
• WAR v WARP3
• WAR v Win Shares
• WAR, or WARP if you must... but not VORP
• WAR, Salary, and Service: Estimating Dollars Per Win
• WAR, team by team
• WAR-Powered SI Rankings, or, Should we really treat BABIP differently for offense and defense?
• WARP
• Wars of WARs
• Was Andre Dawson principally a CF or RF?
• Was baseball meant to be 9 innings?
• Was Craig running in the 9th on the 3-2 count correct?
• Was Cruz not deep enough in the 9th inning?
• Was Greg Maddux a great pitcher because he was a great fielder?
• Was Jeter supposed to take that 2-0 pitch?
• Wasting pitches
• Wat up, BPro Joe Sheehan?
• Watch every pitch, every play, from every game?
• Watching a baseball game is like watching a tourist play blackjack
• Watching Moneyball with Bill James
• Watson DJ and FJ strategies...
• wBABIP: why 2B = 3B?
• We "forget" about Washington & his slaves. Bonds/Clemens & PED ? And this too shall pass.
• We have a winner: someone figured out ERA+ the right way
• We have another Bannister in Max Scherzer
• We love cheaters!
• Weather research paper
• Weather-Park Factors
• Weaver: to Lincecum or not to Lincecum, that is the arbitrator's question
• Web interface for injuries
• Weibull
• Weight gain and loss
• Weird walkoffs
• Welcome Jay Paradise to the PITCHf/x world
• Welcome Jnai to the PITCHf/x world
• Welcome to the PITCHf/x world: Scott Lucas
• Werth: How long can a non-CF stay in CF?
• What about all these biomechanical experts?
• What about if a team has 97 wins in one year, and then gets better?
• What are the chances of a certain player winning a batting title?
• What are the chances of the worst team in the league winning the World Series?
• What are the chances that the Nats win the World Series, if they were already in the playoffs?
• What can happen if you manage (or pitch) like Buck Martinez...
• What can happen when you take a team's stats too seriously, while ignoring player projections
• What changes you would like to see in MLB?
• What could a team possibly see in Willis?
• What did losing Joe Nathan do to the Twins in 2010?
• What did the Fans think of the Gold Glove winners?
• What do good and bad starts by pitchers tell us?
• What do the Fans think of the AL gold glove recipients (not winners)?
• What do you forecast?
• What does 17 at bats mean?
• What does a 12-game losing streak REALLY mean?
• What does a loss of velocity mean?
• What does Daisuke throw in a hitter's count?
• What does it mean when a batter has had a bad or good April?
• What does it mean when you age? It means you can't throw as hard
• What does Josh Tomlin throw?
• What does Ortiz have that Vlad and Hideki don't have?
• What does SIERA think of walks?
• What does Tangotiger mean by "luck"?
• What does the change in run scoring mean?
• What does the Redsox owner know about competitive balance?
• What does tOPS+ mean?
• What exactly does scouting a veteran pitcher do?
• What happens after a pitcher has established his greatness?
• What happens AFTER a team wins the first two games of the World Series?
• What happens to a pitcher's BABIP year to year?
• What happens to a pitcher's HR rate year to year?
• What happens to Brandom Morrow late in the game?
• What happens when a league restricts movement and money?
• What happens when contending teams play out-of-it teams in September?
• What happens when sabermetricians become mainstream writers?
• What happens when the MLBPA meets the NHLPA
• What happens when you add a player who never makes out to an average lineup?
• What if Lidge were the worst closer on the face of the Earth?
• What if pitcher wins would be called something else?
• What if Pujols saw Juan Pierre's pitch distribution?
• What if... TWO strikes and yer out?
• What if... we were wrong?
• What in the world is OBP minus BA?
• What is a "major upset"?
• What is a checked swing?
• What is DER, and what can it tell us about the bias in fielding stats?
• What is evidence? Colin v Neyer
• What is Ricky Nolasco's talent with men on base?
• What is that pitch?
• What is the best way to weight the changes in performance when using the delta method?
• What is the break-even point?
• What is the deal with how many pitches a starter throws?
• What IS the Major Leagues?
• What is the Strasburg usage plan for 2012?
• What is worse? Old ladies yapping gossip about neighbors, or grown men yapping rumors about trades?
• What is wrong with this picture?
• What kind of player steals third with 2 outs with his team losing and the batter with a 2-0 count?
• What makes for a good batter/pitcher matchup?
• What management thinks
• What park factors to use for awards...
• What pitchers throw, depending on the catcher
• What Price Matsuzaka?
• What should you do when a pitcher has just thrown a bunch of balls in a row?
• What stats should we use to represent how good a player IS?
• What The Book has said about starting pitchers
• What the heck is Loaiza throwing and why is he on a major league mound?
• What the Pirates owner is saying
• What WAR is... what WAR is not
• What was behind the lower run scoring in 2010?
• What was Izturis thinking?
• What was Joe Girardi thinking?
• What was Mike Scioscia thinking?
• What was Pedro worth?
• What was Tori Hunter thinking?
• What would happen if the shootout period was 10 minutes, not 5?
• What would happen if you had a team with no sluggers?
• What you throw influences your BABIP
• What's a p-value?
• What's happened when a first rounder has not signed?
• What's Matt Holliday's problem?
• What's up with the interference call in Florida?
• What's wrong with Bill Madden?
• Whatever Happened to.... Tendu?
• When a catcher can no longer catch...
• When athletes play doctor
• When betting by athletes should be allowed
• When can you have two different win% true talent level teams, result in a 50/50 matchup?
• When Did Pitchers Become Bad Hitters?
• When do pitchers peak?
• When do you remove your starter?
• When each team always has a chance to win
• When Fangraphs.com and Leverage Index Collide
• When I looked up "irony" in the dictionary the other night, here is what I found....
• When is a life entity considered a person?
• When is a line drive a flyball?
• When is a major league a major league?
• When is a non-intentional walk intentional?
• When is it a partnership and when is it a competition?
• When is the first goal of a period scored?
• When is the observed data half real and half noise?
• When it comes down to it, I guess I don't care about the environment as much as I should.
• When it comes to baseball, all reason goes away
• When it comes to sports, don't be "The Parent"
• When journalists practice pyschology,you get this
• When Lawyers rule MLB...
• When Mark Buehrle retires, and they ask him which hitter gave him the most challenge, he'll say:
• When most of your sample is Mariano Rivera, the cutter as a pitch looks good
• When Official Scorers Attack!
• When one smart guy is outsmarted by an even smarter guy
• When podcasts attack
• When sabermetric teams go wrong!
• When should you exercise a suicide squueze?
• When the Bible is no longer the Bible
• When the media lies
• When to bring in a reliever
• When to bring up Bryce Harper to maximize performance pre-free agency?
• When to go from eyes to the numbers
• When to hold them, when to send them
• When to issue the intentional walk
• When to walk 'em...
• When to walk a Bondsian-Pujols
• When to walk Josh Hamilton
• When two runners converge toward the same base
• When you ignore the most important variable, you get this list
• When you start off hot, are you really that good?
• Where are outfielders positioned?
• Where are teams putting their best and worst infielder?
• Where are the fans for: Marlins, Astros, Pirates and Rockies?
• Where are the Marcels?
• Where can I find [Tango-championed stat] ?
• Where did EqA come from?
• Where did FIP come from?
• Where did Rob Neyer go?
• Where do pitchers pitch to Pujols?
• Where do umpires position themselves?
• Where Have All Kids Gone?
• Where have all the Blacks gone?
• Where have the Scot Shields of the world gone?
• Where is the strike zone exactly?
• Where one goes away, another comes in
• Where Pettitte ranks among his peers
• Where pitches are thrown -> where balls are hit
• Where should the home plate umpire stand to call balls and strikes?
• Where to bat Soriano?
• Where we are with PITCHf/x
• Which books are you readers buying?
• Which boxscore presentation do you prefer?
• Which has more predictive value for a player: last year's stats or this year's stats so far?
• Which reporter gets the most scoops?
• Which sport has the best athletes?
• Which team has been beating Vegas so far?
• Which team was the most fun to follow in 2011 regular season?
• Whither Albert Pujols?
• Who are Phillies trusting as their relievers?
• Who are the best and worst baserunners?
• Who can turn two?
• Who catches popups?
• Who gives up the fewest bad intentional walks?
• Who had the better team?
• Who is a replacement-level player?
• Who is the Jon Stewart of baseball?
• Who is the new Manny Ramirez?
• Who should switch positions?
• Who surprised Vegas?
• Who wants to run a regression for me?
• Who would you rather have on your team for the next 3 years?
• Who's evaluating the 2011 forecasts this year?
• Who's getting bigger?
• Who's happy?
• Who's smarter than a monkey?
• Who's Waldo?
• Whom would you rather have in your lineup tomorrow?
• Why a 7-game series?
• Why are hot or lucky starts on offense explainable, but not on fielding?
• Why are minor league umpires allowed to eject MLB players?
• Why are prison sentences for non-US citizens shorter than for US citizens?
• Why are the Jays in the same division as the Orioles?
• Why aren't catchers pitching coaches?
• Why baseball fans, why? (inter-conference play)
• Why can't managers get even the simplest of things right?
• Why can't Tampa support its team?
• Why did Jake Peavy bat last night in the 6th?
• Why did the AL cream the NL this year in interleague play?
• Why do great players have the most fragile of egos?
• Why do players get crappy caps?
• Why do stadiums have illegal dimensions?
• Why do teams overpay for relievers?
• Why do the Marlins and Royals exist?
• Why do we apply adjustments to ratios and not rates?
• Why do we need personal opinions about factual matters?
• Why does 1.7*OBP+SLG make sense?
• Why does Bud Black get a pass?
• Why does PECOTA love Felix and hate Verlander?
• Why Does Runs Created Make Sense?
• Why does Win Shares hate Josh Beckett?
• Why don't the "snooty sneetches with stars upon thars" listen to Phil Birnbaum?
• Why has no one done this research?
• Why hitLocation-based fielding metrics is better than not... to a point
• Why I can't stand PED usage in MLB
• Why I can't stand the "one run games" as a category
• Why I hate numbers in baseball
• Why I hate regression "techniques"
• Why is EqA so complicated?
• Why is offense so much higher in the NL so far this year?
• Why is the ballot 14-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points?
• Why is the HFA so high this year?
• Why is this a DP and not a sac bunt?
• Why managers don't utilize their bullpen's optimally...
• Why Marcel may have a great year
• Why might Marcel suck this year?
• Why MLE's are a mess...
• Why not have mercy rules?
• Why numbers are only one lens of your glasses
• Why official stats aren't to be considered the right stats
• Why opinions without evidence DON'T matter
• Why Pecota is not deadly accurate...
• Why saving a play is worth 0.8 runs
• Why so few arbitration offers for free agents?
• Why so many LH soft-tossers
• Why Some Make It and Others Do Not: Psychological Factors That Predict Career Success in Soccer
• Why teams pay equal prices for free agents?
• Why the f!@# is the World Series so boring these years?
• Why the imbalance between AL and NL?
• Why the Phillies, Cubs, Yanks, and Angels lost the DS
• Why the rest of the names MUST be released
• Why the split between AL and NL?
• Why things are not always exactly as they seem and an amusing broadcasting comment...
• Why two heads may be better than one
• Why we are doomed to repeat history
• Why we want hang time
• Why won't MLB allow videos to be embedded?
• Why would a GM say this?
• Why you don't want scouts globally evaluating players
• Why you really need to know the league changes from year to year…
• Wide Zone Mo
• Wieters
• Wieters II
• Wieters III
• Wiffle Ball Empire
• Wild card team is quality
• Wildcard: reward or punishment
• Will A-Rod Win a World Series?
• Will Baseball-Reference.com change the way ERA+ is calculated?
• Will Carroll
• Will Carroll is right!
• Will Carroll on copyright law
• Will Carroll speaks
• Will Carroll's traffic lights
• Will Jim Rice Make the Hall Of Fame?
• Will Mariano Rivera save only 22 games this year, and with a 3.53 ERA?
• Will MGL's head explode?
• Will MLBPA be begging for revenue sharing?
• Will Pujols end the season with at least 30 HR and .500 SLG?
• Will the read Brad Lidge please stand up
• Will the real Chipper Jones please stand up?
• Will the real John Smoltz please stand up
• Willie Bloomquist on the cusp of a MLB record
• Willie Randolph and Billy Wagner
• Win Expectancy in the Mainstream
• Win Expectancy Matrix, 1950-2010
• Win Expectancy, by Count!
• Win Probability for college basketball
• Win Probability in Football
• Win Probability is taking over the world
• Win Probability: pre-allocation method
• Win Probability: Preallocation of wins
• Win Shares Aging Curves
• Win% estimators
• Win-equivalent SB
• Win-scaling stats
• Wind Patterns Affecting Stats
• Wind studies in ballparks
• Winning Streaks
• Wins Above Average
• Wins Above MVP
• Wins and Payroll
• Wins over Non-25-man-roster
• Wins to dollars
• Wisdom of Crowd: Vote on Rule Changes?
• With all the talk of parity in baseball this year...
• With or Without You
• With or Without... Saku Koivu (in French)
• Wizardry
• wOBA by Strike Zone location
• wOBA calculator (applies to TAv too)
• wOBA example
• wOBA for pitchers
• wOBA online
• wOBA pitching splits now on Fangraphs
• wOBA Primer
• wOBA sighting at ESPN
• wOBA to ERA
• wOBA v OPS
• wOBA year-by-year calculations
• wOBAcon
• wOBAcon
• Women umpires
• Won't someone think of the Eastern seaboard kids?
• Wood v Metal
• wOPS+ = Follow the HOF trail
• Work for MLB.com
• Workhorses
• Working harder (or easier) to achieve the same result
• Working the count, for the team
• Working the plate
• Workload Regularity Score
• World Cup Jabulani's knuckleball
• World Cup Sportsmanship
• World Series 2011 Game Thread: Final Game
• World Series 2011: Game 6 post-game
• World Series available on Cablevision
• World Series Odds
• World Series Odds
• World Series or WBC?
• World Series Strategy Thread
• World Series umpires heat maps
• World Series WPA
• World Series: top diminished sporting event
• World's Best Illusion: the curve ball
• Worst call of the year?
• Worst ending in sports
• Worst fielding CF of all time (relative to his team peers)?
• Worst managing ever?
• Worst of the best
• Worst player to reach 3000 hits?
• Worst Player, Under 30, in MLB?
• Worst Playoff teams ever
• Worst signing of the 2010 preseason?
• Worst-fielders since 2002
• Would Babe Ruth Be Average Today?
• Would you EVER walk in the tying run in the bottom of the 9th?
• Would you prefer a break in the action for ads, or no break with in-game ads?
• Would you rather own Joe Mauer Properties or Domonic Brown Properties?
• Would you rather take the performance of the Royals cleanup hitters, or the Rockies' #NINE hitters?
• Would you rather...
• Wow
• WOWY - playing / not playing
• WOWY and catcher framing
• WOWY fielding without the "without" part
• WOWY Managers
• WOWY on The Shift
• WOWY Ripken
• WOWY: does Ichiro hate the stringers?
• WOWY: Firstbasemen
• WOWY: Measuring the DP
• WPA captures the essence of baseball
• WPA discoveries: Art Shamsky
• WPA discussed by the mainstream media
• WPA explained - football style
• WPA for fielders
• WPA for NFL defenses
• WPA for relievers in 1950
• WPA introduced 40 years ago
• WPA is... WPA is not...
• WPA on bunts
• WPA primer
• WPA story at ESPN
• WPA to ARod: I love you
• WPA's Cy Young
• WPA/LI
• WPA: giving numeric support to your frustration as a fan
• WPA: one says goodbye, another says hello
• WPA: Tangotiger responds to Baseball Prospectus
• Writing a baseball sim
• WSJ's Carl Bialik, Leverage Index, and A-Rod
• WSJ.com: Clutch NHL players
• WSJ: most and least efficient teams in payroll
• xFIP and Buchholz
• xWHIP calculator
• YAE
• Yahoo Fantasy Linear Weights League
• Yahoo fantasy sabr league
• Yahoo saber league
• Yankees
• Yankees or Phillies to win the World Series? Even odds
• Yankees outfield fielding alignment
• Yankees with no Mo
• Yanks are Losing Money (need revenue sharing from Royals and Pirates)
• Yappin' Jim Cramer's Forecast: Bear Stearns is Fine!
• Yappin' Joe Sheehan?
• Year of The Pitcher, 2010?
• Year-by-year LI in the Retro years
• Year-to-year comparisons
• Yes, clutch skill exists! Hello? We know that already.
• Yes, Mets hitters really were going the opposite way on purpose
• Yes, someone does have to die
• Yes, the relationship between WAR and salary is linear
• Yet another article that "samples" is not "true"
• Yet another Holy Writer excommunicates himself
• Yet another Montreal-teenager stat
• Yet another number-cruncher who disregards numbers in favor of watching a game
• Yet another: fielding goes mainstream in front offices article
• Yogi Berra
• Yogi Berra and Baseball Prospectus - Feb 28
• You can only keep one sport... which would it be?
• You can't let yourself get beat by your second (or third, etc.) best pitch!
• You thought DePodesta was delusional?
• You're going to take that shot to the head, AND you are going to like it!
• Youngsters throwing curves
• Your MVP
• Your team's optimal batting order
• Youtube: Bill James, Poz, Costas, Early
• Yu Darvish and the posting system
• Yu Darvish is Colby Lewis?
• Yu Darvish is Yu Darvish
• Yu Darvish's pitches
• Yu is: equal parts Felix, Zimmerman, Cueto
• Zambrano v Volstad
• Zimbalist v Birnbaum
• Zimbalist's regression
• Zimmer v Girardi: Crossing the line
• Zimmerman 1000:1 to tie Joe D
• Zone Rating
• [STICKY] Sabermetric moves of the 2011 pre-season