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2013

September, 2013

• 30 Game 163 / Tiebreaker / Play-in thread

• 30 NFL underdogs beat the spread

• 30 BBWAA Cy Young Predictor

• 29 Why did we lose half of our TV audience for the World Series?

• 28 Are NHL coaches too passive in pulling their goalies?

• 28 Trout’s historically un-clutch season

• 27 Career Accomplishments

• 27 Mariano River, Centerfielder

• 27 Momentum, shmomentum, part 3

• 26 Book bag prohibition

• 26 This week in crazy golf rules

• 26 Cliff Lee v Cole Hamels #KillTheWin

• 26 Billy Hamilton’s margin of error

• 26 Why don’t MLB umpires overrule one another?

• 26 NL Cy Young: race for second place

• 26 Blast From the Past: Proof of the Modified OPS

• 25 How much playoff WAR did Mariano Rivera accumulate?

• 25 Why is the team win% the same, regardless whether the starter goes 5,6,7, or 8 innings?

• 25 Why does MLB not attract billionaires?

• 25 Teams fans would like to see come back

• 25 Function of statistics

• 25 What is the breakeven point for playing a defensive style?

• 24 Alan Nathan

• 24 How NFL’s tax-exempt status came to be

• 24 The day that Mariano Rivera dramatically improved

• 24 Royals fielding, Fans Scouting, UZR, and WOWY Francoeur

• 24 Players react to fielding metrics making up 25% of the balloting

• 24 Mailbag: Picking teams for youth leagues

• 24 Substitution Rules

• 24 Champagne celebrations to qualify for tie-breaker game?

• 24 FG, Punt, or go for it?

• 23 Cost to cost-efficiency programs

• 23 Russian penal colony

• 23 Tim Raines by Poz

• 23 Globe Glove Award for Andrelton Simmons

• 22 AL Cy Young: we’ve got ourselves a race!

• 22 Where does Todd Helton rank among his peers?

• 22 Selective sampling may disprove Wolfers’ conclusion on point-shaving

• 20 Pettitte’s missing WAR

• 20 BPro ahead of Vegas this year?

• 20 Texting while driving, and papal paradigms

• 20 Writers speak: best players not in the Hall of Fame

• 20 Shots begets shots

• 19 Best Two-Way Players since 1947

• 19 Off + Def = WAA

• 19 Which teams are relying on the kids and which on the veterans (among nonpitchers)?

• 19 wOBA24: wOBA equation by base-out states

• 18 Why does the point-after-TD kick still exist?

• 18 Choose: 1st and 10 from your 30, or 2nd and 1 from your 29?

• 18 Revisiting Werth

• 18 Half a game back: better to be down 2 wins and one fewer loss, or down 1 win and tied in L?

• 18 Do mid-season forecasts have value?

• 17 Imagining a world without Miguel Cabrera, part 2

• 16 Could Gretzky play in the NHL today?

• 16 Bullying

• 16 Dan Fox on defensive alignments

• 16 To All Registered Members: You Must Confirm Your Account

• 16 Johnny Manziel’s value to college football

• 16 First-inning Home field advantage

• 16 A-ball relievers with crazy high K/BB ratio

• 16 Fans Scouting Report 2013

• 15 Japan posting system to allow player selection rights

• 14 Worst Assigned Pitcher Win of the season?

• 14 Verlander and Scherzer trade luck

• 14 Beating the shift, by bunting… for a double!

• 14 More Pitching Wins Assignment silliness

• 13 Michael Keaton: Who cares who’s Batman?

• 13 Ig Nobel

• 13 Saves v Wins: with friends like these

• 13 Pre-Japan Balentien v Pre-Japan Fielder

• 13 Scoop leaders at 1B

• 13 Your personal all-encompassing system

• 13 Release points

• 13 Cabrera has been how good?

• 13 Slowest players in baseball

• 13 Don’t compare UZR among players of different positions without doing the positional adjustment

• 13 Umpire bias in calling balls-strikes in high-leverage scenarios

• 12 Bleg MGL: how to improve UZR using Bayes?

• 12 Player Tribute Montage

• 12 Better to be lucky than good

• 12 Sportsmanship

• 12 Is the umpire rotation system inefficient?

• 12 Gerrit Cole’s pitch count limit?

• 11 American Ninja Warrior and the Jumping Spider

• 11 Highest point of contact for a HR?

• 11 Is there a difference between Kurt Sutter and Miley Cyrus?

• 11 Why does Alex Gordon play LF and not RF?

• 11 CF positioning

• 11 Disposable players?

• 10 More Poz, More Errors

• 10 Today in the world

• 10 Moneyballing NFL

• 10 WAR misconclusion

• 10 Profits v Royalties

• 10 Logical conclusion

• 10 Ryan Zimmerman, two years later

• 10 Where are the Cleveland fans?

• 10 Can we quote facts, without relying on an expert?

• 09 Fans Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans

• 09 #AddThePostseason

• 09 Are Rockies pitchers not given their due?

• 09 The less you get on base, the fewer runs you will score

• 09 Sabermetric season in review

• 08 When fighting goes down, other penalties go up

• 07 Hockey Abstract

• 07 At what point does pitching a perfect game become very difficult?

• 06 Another broadcaster says that closing out a game isn’t that hard

• 06 To say Redskins or not?

• 06 Reader Mail of the Day: how do the wOBA values change by run environment?

• 06 Using our Baseball Guts, part 3

• 06 Expos 2003 agree with Doug Melvin

• 05 How to be careful with aging curves

• 05 OOTP14 Review

• 05 SportVU player and ball tracking system

• 05 FIP v BABIP, through the eys of Doc Halladay

• 05 International Tie-Breaker Rule

• 05 RE24/LI24

• 04 Does the assigned W/L record contain additional information?

• 04 What happens in the game after a no-hitter, compared to rest-of-season?

• 04 When is Game #163 a playoff game, and when is it not?

• 04 What survivorship bias giveth, selective sampling taketh away

• 03 Return of Mike Gimbel

• 03 NHL exec compensation

• 03 Best/worst batteries for the running game

• 03 Am I being insulted or complimented?

• 03 Does bullpen blowing a game for the starting pitcher hurt his development?

• 03 Forecasting injuries of pitchers based on college usage

• 03 Structuring Jeter’s next deal

• 03 How much would a player discount his salary to substantially increase his odds of making playoffs?