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2013

April, 2013

• 30 Stanley Cup 2013 Playoff TV schedule - USA / Canada

• 30 Accelerated scoring rules

• 30 Female access

• 29 And we have a winner… Jason Collins (and now, Michael Sam)

• 29 NHL hits, by score and time

• 29 Homeruns by Apex

• 29 Run environments by month, historically

• 29 Pele

• 29 Change in hitter approach

• 29 He said / They Said

• 28 Man born without legs, playing ball

• 28 Self-picture, with baseball hit behind

• 28 Campana steals three bases with the same batter

• 26 Who owns the lineup card?

• 26 Behind the scenes: unifying replacement level

• 26 How much true talent did Pedro have at his peak, and when did he reach it?

• 25 Pretzels in Boulder, Colorado

• 25 Where to bat Ben Revere?

• 25 Yu Darvish

• 25 Is Quality Starts a useful metric?

• 25 Strasburg’s handedness splits

• 25 Segura’s Baserunning: RIP

• 25 Jack Morris: the year that “pitching to the score” articles will end

• 25 Principal overreach

• 25 Surplus value of agencies

• 24 Analytics in Minnesota

• 24 Rick Ankiel

• 24 Waiver game

• 24 Cost of car ownership

• 24 Game of Thrones’ Klingon-like master

• 23 Koufax prospect report: “very good prospect… and very good hitter”

• 23 Poll: You have 50MM$ to spend on all your pitchers.  Which of these configurations do you prefer?

• 23 Padres CEO repents

• 23 WBC, or When talent is not drawn randomly from the same pool

• 22 Selection bias… again

• 22 Ode to Roger Ebert, From Roger Ebert… via Poz

• 22 When fastball speeds go down, panic levels go up

• 21 Everyone wants everything for free

• 21 Harold Reynolds argues against himself

• 19 Tango’s Lab: Deconstructing Game Score

• 19 Pitching to the score… or not

• 19 Why are the success rates in holding a one run lead the same now, as ever?

• 19 Swing rates by base states, out states, inning states

• 19 Edge Percentage

• 19 Spray Angle of HR, by park

• 18 Blast from the Past: Science of Forecasting

• 18 Seven Years, and still top 40

• 18 Poll: (Final Round!) Kershaw v Stras/Felix

• 18 RE24

• 18 Immigration bill

• 18 Speed-up rules in tennis

• 18 Game Score leaderboards

• 18 Review copy of e-version (iTunes) of The Book

• 18 Greinke’s pitch tendencies

• 18 Poll: (Semi-finals) You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Who do you sign for the next four years?

• 17 Poll: (part 2) You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket.  Who do you sign for the next four years?

• 17 Day-to-day Steamer forecasts

• 17 DIGS: defense-independent GOALIE stats

• 17 Gumbel v Samson

• 17 Google Reader replacement

• 17 Multi-position player

• 16 Member Registration

• 16 Poll: You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket.  Who do you sign for the next four years?

• 16 The Book - 40% off

• 16 Standard rebut to worst article of the year

• 16 Crowdsourcing BIP

• 16 Injury history for pitchers at BPro

• 16 Strike zones, by team

• 15 Tracer: When did Pee Wee embrace Jackie?

• 15 Adam Dunn Transformation

• 15 PITCHf/x Similarity Scores

• 14 Profit Wins

• 13 WAR v Rosenthal?  No, I wish.  It’s actually WAR + Rosenthal!

• 12 This week in golf bullying

• 12 Where does Quentin get hit?

• 12 Inverted W

• 12 Steubenville II

• 12 International draft and slot values

• 12 Last bench-clearing brawl in MLB?

• 12 Boards: Historical pitch results

• 11 Physics of stealing

• 11 Face of the sports fan

• 11 NHL, NHLPA announce partnership with You Can Play

• 11 Run frequency matrix being shown on broadcasts?

• 11 Voiding a contract for failure to report?

• 10 Attendace for the game after the home opener

• 10 Run environment for 2013

• 10 Four-year old shoots and kills six-year old, with unsecured, loaded rifle

• 10 Branch Rickey

• 10 Gender-wage disparity, and bad math

• 09 Sandlot Movie: Behind the Scenes

• 09 Hellickson continues to give saberists a hard time

• 09 “One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t belong…”

• 09 Boards: Forecasting Unbreakable Records

• 08 Lineup construction

• 08 Move over Canada: your involvement interferes with the creation of drama

• 08 Book about Baseball Books

• 08 DIPS and BABIP

• 08 Kershaw v Strasburg

• 08 Tony Pena, difference-maker

• 08 Jose Fernandez

• 07 Cot’s Contracts v Ron Blum

• 06 Adair Physics of Baseball - Distance and Hang Time

• 06 What would sales be if piracy didn’t exist?

• 05 Boards

• 05 Legends via politics

• 05 Would you ever bunt a young Tim Raines or Rickey Henderson over to second base?

• 05 Hannibal v Seeing Things

• 05 Best DH proposals

• 05 Federal League 1914-15

• 04 Montreal Expos… RIP

• 04 Which team has the best young outfielder (or OF prospect) to trade for Profar?

• 04 When Doc did something Doc hasn’t done in ten years

• 04 Forecasting Baseball Standings is mostly luck

• 04 Seasonal Age

• 04 When do college coaches go too far?

• 04 Batter Times to First Base

• 04 Game-level pitching accomplishments

• 02 MLB, Biogenesis, and procedural matters

• 02 Websites focused on Quants and Stats

• 02 Breaking pitches at Coors

• 02 Testing the Dewan Rule

• 02 Consensus Top Prospects 2013

• 02 Historical baseball salaries adjusted for inflation

• 02 Who is the face of replacement-level?

• 02 Game Score and Crowdsourcing

• 01 Defense Value

• 01 Not your grandfather’s Louisville Slugger any longer

• 01 Board: change in AL/NL balance due to Astros move

• 01 Asymmetry of strikeouts, between pitchers and batters

• 01 Forecast Standings 2013