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2014

July, 2014

• 31 How much does the league best pitcher have to make in order to be considered underwater?

• 31 Kluber enters the front door to the Cy Young party, Felix greets him

• 29 More meaning to correlation

• 29 Regressions run wild

• 28 Saber Seminar Lineup

• 27 If losing 11% of HOFers is “minimal”, then gaining that much is also minimal

• 26 Splitting the MLB season into two

• 26 Eligibility will go down to 10 years

• 26 Fangraphs WAR for pitchers

• 26 Timeouts (finally) coming to baseball!

• 25 Hall of Fame: Hockey v Baseball

• 25 Relievers in the post-season

• 25 Is Nate Silver too conservative in his forecasts of the favorites?

• 24 MLBPA, Astros, NCAA

• 24 Why WAR and not WAA?

• 23 Kyle Dubas

• 23 Pujols v Ryan Howard

• 23 What would happen if MLBPA agrees to have discounted buyouts on ANY contract?

• 23 Dave Berri in on board with replacement level!

• 23 Does WAR not give enough credit to catchers?

• 22 That data cannot possibly be accurate

• 22 Does the AL have smarter teams?

• 22 NHL on NBC (Properties)

• 22 Selective sampling McDonald’s

• 22 Pitchers who radically lower their use of fastballs

• 22 What is a replacement level NBA player?

• 22 Yu Darvish prefers longer outings, more rest between starts

• 22 Top Five saber-stats to broadcast

• 22 Spray charts and strize zone location come together

• 22 Race for 2nd place in AL Cy Young

• 22 Airline Safety Forecasting

• 21 Calculating something for the sake of calculating it

• 21 When you bunt to get on base, do you care if the fielder cleanly misses the ball, or

• 21 Future headlines: pitcher loses perfect game, upset at:

• 20 Now we have rules of etiquette in 2-0 games?

• 19 Runner out is safe, runner safe is out

• 19 WAR may be far from perfect, but it’s also far better than the next best thing

• 19 Does Felix have such a wide arsenal that he didn’t know his changeup was a changeup?

• 18 wOBA Intro

• 18 Myth of “Myth of Replacement Level”

• 18 Most valuable player properties in baseball

• 18 WOWY: plain-english v not

• 18 Silliness of reconstructing innings

• 17 Grooving pitches

• 17 How do you know if the pace of a baseball game is too slow or too fast?

• 17 How much does MLB archival footage cost?

• 16 Forecasting using performance by pitch location relative to center of strike zone

• 16 Baseball is dead.  Long live Baseball.

• 16 How to determine the size of the bet?

• 16 MGL on the Tigers

• 16 “Corners are for bus stops and postage stamps”

• 15 Is Felix’s Cy Young odds now at 90%+?

• 15 Will a magnet damage your smartphone?

• 12 Nate Silver is more right when he’s sometimes wrong, rather than when he’s never wrong

• 08 MGL Podcast

• 05 Switching goalies

• 05 Kershaw still not officially a front-runner for the Cy, but he is if we forecast

• 05 Binary issues of recording data

• 03 More physics on great throws

• 03 Goalie Plus-Minus

• 03 Tennis shot clock

• 02 “I’ll just smoke [pot] my way onto the 40-man [roster]”

• 02 Denard Span v Danny Espinosa

• 02 Runaways in the Cy Young race

• 02 Sweet Lou and Alan Trammell among the best players of their generation

• 01 Did USA get respect from the bettors?

• 01 Is Leverage Index a good proxy for stressful situations?

• 01 Now that Brazil has advanced, how did their odds of winning go DOWN?

• 01 Messi-metrics