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2013

December, 2013

• 31 Star Wars

• 31 Do all HOF voters know how blank ballots are counted?

• 31 See you on the other side!

• 31 Longest-lasting games hit new highs in 2013

• 31 Air Canada, the Healthcare.gov of airlines

• 31 Shutting down the running game… but to what end

• 31 Odds of Women in Baseball in Prominent positions

• 30 Most Perfect HOF ballots

• 30 How many great players are there today compared to past decades?

• 30 Nominations for best research

• 30 Chasing ARod

• 30 Impact of Temperature on Run Scoring

• 29 Why do some people reject WAR?

• 29 Imperfect HOF ballot

• 29 How many players per HOF ballot will we see?

• 28 Blast From The Past: Proof of the modified OPS

• 28 Buying out your own contract

• 27 Honor

• 27 Could a team draft solely on the Baseball America rankings?

• 26 Bill Bavasi admits he blew it when he traded Shoo

• 26 HOF should take a stand

• 26 Has the reliever market finally been reset?

• 26 Bayes to estimate chances of reaching certain thresholds

• 25 Perfect Hall of Fame ballot

• 24 Pitch-component based ERA estimator

• 24 Fallacy of the albatross contract

• 24 MLB Job Seekers

• 24 Million Dollar Arm

• 23 Why is run scoring lower in the post-season

• 23 Draft order, by wins or by sequential order?

• 22 shia laboeuf

• 21 Predicting huge comebacks

• 21 Why HOF voters should vote for 10 players

• 20 Best Movie Title Ever?

• 20 Canada Supreme Court says prostitution laws unconstitutional

• 20 Jim Kaat, switch-hitter, as golfer

• 20 History of WAR

• 19 Ben Morris added to Nate’s 538 team

• 19 NHL department of player safety

• 19 Remembering Expos

• 19 Best baseball song?

• 19 How to make protective headgear for pitchers mandatory

• 19 Increase in Hall of Fame standards

• 19 Are there any (intentional) groundball hitters?

• 19 Glavine v Mussina is the pitcher version of Gwynn v Raines

• 19 Saber-team at BPro

• 19 Vote-trading

• 19 How easy is it to make 1000$?

• 19 What if Willie Mays were a free agent today?

• 18 Convergent Science

• 18 Is Brian Kenny too loud in supporting sabermetrics?

• 18 Unfortunate name of Pitcher Won-Loss record will ensure its survival

• 18 Oddities of the qualifying offer

• 18 Mike Trout’s Net Asset Value and the Bay Area’s territorial value

• 18 A’s FB bias in acquiring hitters

• 18 Max’s Book, reviewed

• 18 Multi-league park factors

• 17 Rebooted Hall of Fame

• 17 State of Sabermetrics

• 17 LF v RF

• 16 Do starting pitchers pitch better with more rest?

• 16 Irrational Exhuberance of the Defensive Shift

• 16 Pitch-framing with Chris Stewart

• 16 How many votes will the returnees lose on the HOF ballot this year?

• 15 Numerator in wOBA

• 15 BayesDB

• 15 Tony Clark, leader

• 14 NFL investigating centralizing replay system

• 14 Are players declining faster as they age these days?

• 14 Dirk heart Pedro heart Dirk

• 13 Positional Utility

• 13 WAR for pitchers on Fangraphs

• 13 Reverse Platoons

• 13 Complete set of correlations

• 13 Study with pre-determined outcome

• 12 Pokey Reese v Barry Larkin

• 12 MLB committees unanimously agree to ban collisions

• 11 Cano/10 v Ellsbury/7 + Beltran/3

• 10 Hollywood Foreign Press

• 10 Fangraphs taking over

• 10 Goalie aging curve and salary

• 10 Jack Morris and his singular game

• 10 Bill James Handbook review

• 09 Reprint: Roy Halladay’s Bobby Orr career

• 09 Leverage Index by Inning

• 09 Effects of DH, PH, and not being rested

• 09 Post-game WPA

• 08 Lists, lists, lists

• 06 Fielding Primer

• 06 Will Smith, pitcher/actor

• 05 If Mathematicians controlled headlines

• 05 Quirks in the win expectancy table

• 05 Jack Morris’ Leverage Index

• 05 Is NBA providing incentive to fans for unruly behaviour?

• 05 Super Bowl v NJ

• 05 Does the in-game score modify your prior win expectation?

• 05 Trackman spin

• 05 Alternative to the posting system

• 04 Better to be 4 WAR in 150 IP or in 250 IP?

• 04 What are the odds that Jack Morris gets elected this year?

• 04 If everyone is getting a discount on lesser cars, should you still pay retail price on luxury cars?

• 03 Sinkers, compared to Fastballs and Curveballs

• 03 When is an employee still considered on-the-job?

• 02 Fourth down Bot

• 02 How did Ruben Amaro win the Gold Glove in 1964?

• 02 Do nice guys make their mates finish last?

• 02 WAR versus OPS+ and PA

• 02 WAR versus ERA+ and IP

• 01 Rockies’ Line-by-line budget

• 01 Is Larry Walker being overly adjusted because of Coors?

• 01 Leave Marvin Miller alone

• 01 Sports Hazing in Europe