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2013

March, 2013

• 31 Kluwe: “Gay teammate less an issue than women harrassed at the office”

• 31 Is Amazon Warehouse Deals a bad idea, or terrible idea?

• 31 Universal Player ID

• 29 WAR: the G.D.P. of baseball

• 29 Do breakout spring training stats provide an indicator to the future?

• 29 Felix Verlander

• 29 Historical replacement level

• 29 WAR 1945

• 29 WAR and Hall of Fame

• 28 Astros going to tandem starters, including the upper minor league levels

• 28 Should we opt-out of Obamacare, if we qualify for tax-mandate-exemption?

• 28 Deconstructing RA Dickey

• 28 Analytics for Nationals

• 28 Free BPro this weekend

• 28 Brandon Maurer, not High School teammate Gerrit Cole, first to make it to MLB

• 28 Unification of Replacement Level

• 28 PECOTA Percentiles

• 28 Introduction to Replacement Level

• 27 MLBAM now worth 27% of MLB

• 27 Crowdsource v Actual Contracts

• 27 Swing speed or bat weight?

• 26 Potomac, former publisher of The Book, sold to Nebraska Press

• 26 Late Break

• 26 Why do we need to consider gender in two-person union contracts?

• 26 How much would you pay for live sports, if it was pay-per-view?

• 26 Molina, the elite, self-analyzes

• 25 “I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.”

• 25 eTheBook? iTheBook? TheIBook?  Whatever… now available!

• 25 Tandem Starters

• 24 Guns v Suicide

• 23 Trackman

• 22 MLB files suit against Biogenesis

• 22 Catching Mike Trout

• 22 Brackets… for baseball stats

• 22 A run is not a run?  Or it is a run?

• 22 Rivera or Pettitte?

• 22 Positional Utility leaders

• 22 Why does Dunkin Donuts charge a 5 cent levy for extra consumption?

• 21 Blocking the plate

• 21 Ike Hall on PITCHf/x corrections

• 21 Are pitchers conducive to a certain role (closer, non-closer reliever, starter)?

• 21 Minor League Park Factors

• 21 Positional adjustments

• 21 Young saberist in college basketball

• 21 Relevance of RBI

• 21 Navigation software

• 20 MLB v NFL in Baltimore

• 20 Archives: Persistency of reverse Park splits

• 20 Organized youth sports: building character or winning?

• 20 Art (and some science) of Basestealing

• 20 First pitches of: season, game, plate appearance

• 19 SaberSeminar: call for abstracts

• 19 Silly debates

• 18 Harry on Strasburg in The Post

• 18 Mythbuster: day-to-day same kind of pitcher is no disadvantage to pitching team

• 18 BPro’s replacement level

• 17 John Hiller: the reliever that time forgot… but not Leverage Index

• 17 Times on Base

• 16 Newt and I see eye-to-eye?

• 15 Pardons

• 15 Crowdfunding

• 15 Change two rules in baseball

• 15 Aybar v Angel Hernandez

• 14 Game Theory: batter-pitcher approach

• 14 Ben’s thoughts

• 13 NHLPA math fail

• 12 Strasburg v the field: look at the baseline

• 12 Mail of the day

• 12 Hidden Value in baseball stats

• 12 Historical success rate of closers

• 11 Arbitrary, Biased, and Capricious

• 11 SABR Analytics recap

• 10 Mo v Goose

• 10 World Baseball Classic ratings in Japan

• 09 NHL has eliminated bench clearing brawls, and third-man-in fights

• 09 Beating the odds on baseball and Birnbaum

• 09 Bill James SABR keynote speech

• 09 Players speak on sabermetrics

• 09 Studes is da man

• 08 Survey of Sloan attendees

• 08 Rawlings, SABR, and a trademarked fielding metric

• 08 Correlation is not causation, example #5,673,923

• 08 PythagenPat Exponent at Various Run Levels

• 08 Safeco v Chase

• 08 The debate that does not exist

• 07 Alan Nathan’s presentation at SABR

• 07 Pitchers without pitchers-as-batters

• 07 Department of Player Safety

• 07 Fan-tasy rules idea that includes fielding: games played at premium positions

• 06 FIP 2.0?

• 06 Tim Burke, Expos 1987

• 06 Cubs old-style Topps cards

• 06 Hate speech with potential harm: human dignity v freedom

• 06 Scalia

• 06 Rendez-Vous 1987

• 06 Is there a place today for coaches who bully kids?

• 06 Kyle Lohse

• 06 Measuring BABIP skill

• 05 Optimal Batting Order Paper

• 05 Math helps in dating

• 05 DH: home-manager rules

• 04 Tackle Baseball

• 04 “If that was their only way out, what would they do?”—David Ortiz

• 04 Alan speaks!

• 04 How many runs do you need in college baseball?

• 03 THoR

• 02 Weiner speaks on free agent penalty system

• 02 Contract for non-arb players

• 02 GB v FB pitchers

• 02 NBA Shot Charts

• 01 Ghost Runners

• 01 WBC

• 01 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference