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2014

April, 2014

• 30 95% of the time, leading into the ninth means winning the game

• 30 How much news can Scherzer control?

• 30 Things We Learned from Developing Forecasting Systems

• 30 Jeremy Jeffress

• 29 French officials are not biased toward Canadiens in Montreal

• 29 Can Louis CK single-handledly destroy standardized testing?

• 29 Hack-a-Shaq isn’t so smart after all?

• 29 Momentum, schmomentum

• 29 Compromise v A$$hole approach

• 29 Win Expectancy Charts can describe a game like nothing else can

• 29 Indicators of the impact of sabermetrics?

• 29 Yankee Fans booing Robinson Cano’s cardboard, only to have Cano subsequently greet them

• 28 Someone is better than Vin Scully?

• 28 Pros/Cons of a 40-pitch scoreless first inning

• 28 Saber Archive

• 28 Plate Discipline

• 28 Lessons learned from a Baseball Simulator

• 28 When did the BBWAA reject the Assigned Pitcher Wins as a primo category?

• 28 The Book, now Print-on-Demand

• 27 How long until Donald Sterling is suspended?

• 26 Bunts, bunts, bunts

• 26 Golf version of The Book?

• 25 Irony? Fateful? Kafkaesque?

• 25 Short-hand rule for setting replacement level

• 25 Patrick Kane, OT superstar

• 25 How to measure the state of a league

• 25 WAR, using only R+RBI

• 25 Newark Bears auction

• 25 Glen Perkins: FIP keeps me sane!

• 25 Tim Duncan, the Raymond Bourque of basketball

• 24 Most efficient spending on payroll over the last 5 years for all 122 teams

• 24 Science of Pine Tar

• 24 Negative Losses

• 24 When to quote someone using the word f-ck

• 24 Rooting interests by zip code

• 24 What should a switch hitter do, if he can’t hit and can’t bunt, facing a RHP and an extreme shift?

• 24 Cheating v Unsportsmanlike Conduct

• 23 Stop treating errors as if the batter made an out

• 23 Are relievers who get themselves in trouble a sign that they are off that day?

• 23 Dynamic Duos: Trout and Harper?  Or Rickey and Raines?

• 23 How to have the legal power to arrest someone without being subject to government oversight

• 23 Hurricane Carter

• 23 Throwing yourself into your opponent to force the call AGAINST the opponent

• 23 French-Quebec v English-Canada

• 23 If a pitch was thrown, but no one recorded it, did it actually happen?

• 23 Identifying players to platoon

• 23 Card system for baseball

• 23 Succeeding legendary coaches

• 22 Cliff Lee’s run support

• 22 FIP now on Baseball Reference

• 21 Greinke: I’ve had enough of FIP!

• 21 Game totals across multiple years

• 21 Athlete-salesmen

• 21 Are catchers poorly represented by WAR?

• 21 Most interesting super heroes

• 21 Antonia Ayres-Brown

• 21 Blood Cubans

• 20 Are the NFL silly anti-showboating rules actually smart?

• 20 Devils Director of Hockey Analytics

• 20 Depending on airfare tracking algorithm may not be so smart after all

• 20 Could Buffalo lose the Bills without receiving compensation

• 18 Spread in talent in India Cricket league

• 18 One-shot replay rule?

• 18 Position of a Player

• 18 Amd more on game time

• 18 LHH Ryan Howard pinch hits against LHP?

• 18 Super Two Monkey Wrench

• 18 Unwritten bonuses

• 17 How fast does Mark Buehrle pitch?

• 17 Strike zone error rate

• 17 wOBA Primer

• 17 (Ir)Rational Exhuberance

• 16 Do American-born pitchers breakdown faster than Latin American pitchers?

• 16 Pace and Game time

• 16 Scheduled Rest

• 16 All about NHL goalies

• 16 Pre-Introducing FIP Squared

• 15 Cost of a controversial mascot

• 15 Is it viable for an offense to increase their chances of scoring by intentionally staying on third?

• 14 Limits of forecasting

• 14 Defending FIP

• 14 Bob Ross

• 14 Blackouts

• 13 Béisbol Prospectus

• 13 Japan baseballs are lively again, unknowingly again

• 13 Dirk Hayhurst, the new Curt Schilling?

• 13 What should the minimum salary be?

• 12 Blast From The Past: Win Expectancy Matrix, 1950-2010

• 12 Gabe Kapler, saberist

• 11 Simple team-level +/- metrics

• 11 Running through, or diving for first base?

• 10 Math shortcuts

• 10 How is this not an out?

• 09 Singles-hitting Hank Aaron would still be in the Hall of Fame

• 09 PSA: Saber Seminar Tix available

• 09 Was the Justified epilogue uh… justified?

• 08 Separating sports from college

• 08 How are observers biased?

• 08 Making seasonal and career-level regressions add up

• 07 The Hidden Game of Baseball to be reissued

• 07 How does a 7 inning game help?

• 07 Physics of a Whiffle Ball

• 07 Predictions Basics

• 07 Talking fielding estimates with Bill James

• 07 Long-term deals and club options

• 06 Home plate collision

• 06 Hurdle discusses the nuances of bunting

• 06 Is this the year Strasburg finally outplays Cliff Lee?

• 05 When ideal location can more than make up for an 83mph fastball

• 04 Tracking goals leads to no knowledge?

• 04 Making the bracket challenge attainable

• 04 Using replay to… get the ball-strike count?

• 04 IBB solution

• 04 Ode to Joey Votto

• 04 When sports interferes with life

• 03 The Americans

• 03 Blast from the past: Why saving a play is worth 0.8 runs

• 03 How to explain that (a) Mike Trout will be more talented in 2014 and (b) will accomplish less

• 03 Eddie Waitkus and The Natural

• 03 Changing strike zone by ball-strike count

• 03 Difference between REDUCE and ELIMINATE

• 03 Adam Dunn or Juan Pierre

• 02 When a pre-FA player signs a long-term deal, is he more likely or less likely to be traded?

• 02 Brandon Backe’s litigation

• 02 3-0 Counts

• 02 Accuracy tests of Trackman

• 01 #CancelColbert

• 01 The Book - out of print

• 01 Effect on bullpen when rested

• 01 Physics of the Cutoff

• 01 Amazon Split/Combined Fulfillment System