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2014

June, 2014

• 30 Windows 7 Security

• 30 Another way to define replacement level

• 29 When you get an early yellow card, how quickly before you sub him out?

• 29 Soccer is alot like baseball

• 29 NHL (once again) gets the HOF players right and quick

• 29 When paying fans vote with their feet by leaving a game:

• 28 CFL v NFL strategies, through the eyes of Doug Flutie

• 28 Endy Chavez

• 27 Inside the Astros front office

• 27 Monkeys believe in winning streaks

• 27 Betting on Nate Silver

• 27 University suspends its own hockey program for one year amid rape allegations

• 27 Wimbledon regulates women’s bras

• 27 ARod: SS.  Hawk: CF.

• 27 Blase from the past: Proof of the Regression Toward the Mean

• 27 Splits happen

• 27 Which country doesn’t recipricoate another’s love?

• 27 Don’t blame HR derby for drop in performance; blame Regression Toward The Mean.  Again.

• 26 Strasburg’s twin?  Would you believe… Cliff Lee!

• 26 BaseRuns

• 26 MGL’s dog: “Just throw the ball…don’t tell me my catch/return percentage”

• 26 Live probability: Will USA advance from Group G?

• 25 If you can’t enjoy the World Cup, that’s a knock on you, not the sport

• 25 Rule 7.13

• 25 Hypocrisy

• 25 Kershaw finally enters the Cy Young race

• 25 Quirky scoring rules of tennis

• 25 What would happen if a pitcher indicated that he would throw ONLY fastballs?

• 25 MarcelR

• 24 How would salaries change if we institute a 10x max policy?

• 24 “Baseball is dying alert” Alert

• 24 Are strikeout hitters finally losing ground?

• 23 Is Tom Seaver peak equal to Koufax?

• 23 USA has 75% chance to advance

• 22 Alex Torres, role model

• 22 Baserunner advances and outs

• 22 Lines on the field

• 22 Shift Candidates

• 22 Annual MLB salary leaders, since 1874

• 21 Kazmir trying to join the Cy Young party

• 20 Hidden Features of Fangraphs

• 19 Kershaw’s Earned Perfect Game

• 18 Redskins no longer protected by US Patent!

• 18 Another day, another ERA story

• 18 If you pitch differently by base-out, are you pitching sub-optimally?

• 18 Magnus Soccer

• 16 Equation to calculate number of runs in a BB, SO only league

• 16 How would you like to see “acceleration” presented?

• 16 wOBA and BaseRuns

• 15 Perfect Run Modeler

• 14 Genius is in its simplicity

• 14 Is this the worst “Loss” for a pitcher of the season?

• 13 Divorce decay rate

• 13 Welcome to the party, Yu and Tim Hudson

• 13 Commons4Kids

• 13 Beanball Wars

• 13 Player-Driven Super Teams

• 12 Testing in-season forecasts

• 12 Using an entire career to figure out a player’s peak level

• 12 How much for a front office?

• 12 Declining Share of Black Baseball Players

• 12 Pinch-hitting with pitchers

• 12 Matt Cain and his ever-stagnant low BABIP

• 12 Can your fielding arm be too good to throw out baserunners?

• 12 Big Lie of Travel Baseball

• 11 Cespedes Throw

• 11 Are we at equilibrium in swing approaches on the first pitch?

• 11 Dear anti-plusminus-istas

• 11 Move the mound back?

• 10 Hockey Research Articles

• 10 Western conference in the NHL is much better than the Eastern conference

• 10 Cool manager moves

• 10 Soccer Stringers

• 10 Be a saberist: Which situation would you prefer?

• 10 How much does it matter number of games behind, if same number of team in front?

• 10 Luck in the draft

• 10 Assumed Risk of attending a sporting event

• 10 Restaurant institutionalizes automatic tipping of 25%

• 09 Are teams too passive in stealing, with runners on corners and 2 outs?

• 09 Proven Closer, or Observed Replacement Level Pitcher?

• 09 Hot hand testing

• 09 Game of Thrones’ standalone episode

• 09 When does tradition begin?

• 09 Misconceptions of the positional adjustment

• 09 Welcome to the party, Julio Teheran

• 09 Pitching Down

• 09 Insuring future earnings

• 09 Simulating bullpen usage

• 09 Cost of holding a Super Bowl

• 07 Creator of Calvin and Hobbes has drawn something

• 07 DiamondView Indians Program

• 07 Player Buyouts

• 06 All about MLBAM

• 06 Doing away with the DH, while reducing the number of times a pitcher can bat

• 06 Odds that one of Cueto, Wainwright, Felix, Tanaka, Buehrle will win Cy Young in 2014?

• 06 Why are NBA playoff games so much darn longer than regular season?

• 06 Did Mike Green have a great year or a terrible one?

• 06 Guy, Guy, Guy

• 06 More inside stories of agents dealing with teams

• 06 If you have a 60% chance of winning a best 4-of-7, are you an overwhelming favorite?

• 05 Bowing before the gods

• 05 Inside the draft room

• 05 Plotting Leverage Index against True Talent Levels

• 05 Don Zimmer

• 05 Colin Kaepernick

• 05 Jake Peavy dissects his game plan

• 05 Gretzky Kings v Current Kings

• 05 Hockey fights by league, worldwide

• 05 Bowie Bonds, again

• 05 Was is a top prospect’s minimum lifetime earnings prior to his contract?

• 05 Ryan Zimmerman, Again

• 05 When Tulo was drafted

• 04 Kings-Rangers a toss-up?

• 04 What is StubHub FanProtect Guarantee?

• 04 Charts by Plate Count

• 04 NHL Tracking Technology

• 04 Adjusting NHL’s Plus/Minus, part 8 of n: Goalie Presence

• 04 Strike Zone Unicorn

• 04 Sinkers, changeups, and platoon splits

• 04 Russian dash-cam?  How about American bike-cam!

• 03 What does losing 5mph do?

• 03 If Luck is the MVP every game, should we change the way we measure things?

• 03 Gordie Howe Interview from 1959

• 03 Adjusting NHL’s Plus/Minus, part 7 of n: 50/50

• 03 Statitudes

• 03 Reverse Platoon Splits

• 03 How do we laugh with Larry Walker, but cry with Derek Jeter?

• 03 What are young players to do with the CBA?

• 03 Situational Wins, one more time

• 03 Personal statistician

• 02 Clippers are a Picasso

• 02 Astros implement the Evan Longoria signing plan

• 02 Dirk Pants-on-Fire Hayhurst

• 02 Take a train to MSG or fly to Staples Center?

• 01 Is Bobby Abreu the new borderline HOF?

• 01 Puig: best start to a career?