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2014

March, 2014

• 31 Rejecting information

• 31 Fans keep voting with the hands, feet, and wallet: they don’t care about the PED issue

• 30 Cabrera and those out years

• 30 Attrition curves

• 28 Players finally agree: PED is a player-v-player issue

• 28 Miguel Cabrera

• 28 Salary growth can’t keep up with revenue growth due to sharing of revenue among teams

• 27 Brian Kenny, the Bill Maher of MLB Network

• 27 Are you Fangraphs, or are you Baseball Reference?

• 27 Ruling in favor of players is bad for… players?

• 27 Brodeur v Avery

• 27 Nate Silver analyzes Paul Krugman’s mentions of Nate Silver

• 27 Limits and Directions of Forecasting Primer

• 27 Alot of what you wanted to know about MLB replay and were willing to ask

• 26 Can a manager get the best out of his relievers, if they don’t know which inning to prepare for?

• 26 This Monday, Next Monday

• 26 Is Gil Hodges worthy of the HOF honor?

• 26 Team Payrolls, or How Michael Lewis changed the landscape of MLB

• 26 Is the talent level increasing in MLB?

• 26 Dollars per WAR primer

• 26 Writers largely stripped of the HOF vote

• 25 If two teams have the same Won-Loss record, does it matter which team played with more hustle?

• 25 If you have virtually no chance to get a save, should you get a great chance at a blown save?

• 25 Has Votto taken over from Vlad as the best-hitter-that-needs-fixing?

• 25 Hidden meaning of steals in NBA

• 25 Je me souviens Les Expos

• 24 Low Pay Limits Player Experience in National Women’s Soccer League

• 24 Seven years of team control

• 24 Ortiz’s extension

• 24 Is Football mostly popular because of the controlled days of televising games?

• 23 Is this the right team to put Trout as #2?

• 23 Tommy John has two surgeries from Dr. Jobe

• 23 Kendrys Morales watch

• 21 Clubhouse Chemistry Evidence or Claim?

• 21 Ungrateful Fans?

• 21 How much to weight spring training performances?

• 21 When random variation is the Astros’ best friend

• 21 Odds of a random ballot picking 63 winners

• 21 How easy or difficult is it to bunt?

• 20 Year of the Converted Reliever

• 20 Instead of sharing revenue, why don’t MLB teams use value of draft position?

• 20 Mandating pitcher headgear?

• 20 Confidence in setting a smart line

• 20 Rock-Paper-Scissors chart for NBA passing

• 19 Value of Baseball America rankings

• 17 How risk-averse are NFL coaches?

• 17 Marcel Percentile Results

• 17 538 manifesto

• 17 Cray Supercomputer

• 17 Winning your bracket by betting against the overall favorite?

• 17 Decision-Tree Approach to Pitch Prediction

• 16 NHL postponement rules

• 15 Trailing teams more likely to go on a scoring spree

• 15 When will MLBPA finally beg to get a fixed share of revenue?

• 15 Should you have quality officials in exhibition matches?

• 15 Sport v Entertainment, through the eyes of a player retiring at age 26

• 14 SABR Analytics recap

• 14 Dear Consumer Reports, I’m no longer a subscriber

• 14 Blast from the past: Attendance Base For Each Team

• 14 How good are these minor league ranking lists?

• 14 Attrition by position

• 13 Canadian Doctor 1, US Senator 0

• 13 Implied Win Expectancy tracker using the bettor market

• 13 Zuckerberg’s Pot, Obama’s Kettle, or Door #3?

• 13 Kershaw finally the favorite for Cy Young… but just barely

• 13 Career pitch counts

• 13 Pitchers with a pattern on first pitches

• 13 How to talk to ballplayers

• 13 Should all forecasts come with TWO numbers instead of one?

• 12 Sloan: Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on Pitchers

• 12 Psst… wanna work for the Cubs?

• 12 Do long-term PECOTA forecasts make sense?

• 12 Pitch sequencing

• 12 CS rates by strike zone location

• 12 Golf Trackman

• 11 History of Corsi

• 11 What happens after Tommy John surgery?

• 11 Understanding the advanced stats

• 10 Contract for pre-arb stars

• 10 NHL OT

• 10 Ice Time, by score and time

• 10 Football Markov

• 10 Yet another bases per out model

• 10 Looking for run prevention skill, over and above a pitcher’s seasonal line

• 10 Sabermetric Book Reviews

• 09 Confessions of a drug user

• 09 Age limits

• 09 MLBPA won’t challenge the penalty system

• 09 Astros “Ground Control” Information System

• 09 Most Talented Shootout NHL Goalies

• 09 When ties make sense

• 09 RetroFX Database (BBOS)

• 08 Two Days At Sloan: How Sports Analytics Got Lost In The Fog

• 07 Pregnancy assault?

• 07 Rationalizing through Rating Systems

• 07 What do pitchers think of the shift?

• 07 Gary Nolan Surgery

• 07 Move over MLB, soccer is coming through

• 07 Kovalchuk penalty against Devils reduced

• 07 Lefty catchers

• 07 Using actual rosters that day to forecast a team’s chance of winning

• 06 Art not science of setting lines

• 06 Is the Market for MLB Front Office Employees Rational?

• 06 Daily Feeds

• 05 Ben Baumer speaks

• 05 ?Is Johan Santana the Sandy Koufax of our generation?

• 04 Goalies in shootouts

• 04 Sloan Recap

• 04 Bias in 538 hiring practices?

• 04 Should you forecast luck?

• 04 Hot Hand Response

• 03 Analytics drives silliness out of the sport

• 03 Catcher framing numbers now available

• 03 Using WAR to identify trends over time in race, economic groups, and weather

• 02 Does it matter if the fielding strength is in the infield or outfield?

• 02 Montreal Exhibition game

• 02 Steamer forecasts, that includes UZR and Fans Scouting Report

• 02 Predicting pitcher injuries

• 02 Pitch framing

• 02 Changing of the strike zone in the FX area

• 02 Arbitration values for relievers, depending on saves

• 02 “DIPS revisited” revisited

• 02 Aging of Power

• 01 Complete field tracking