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2015

February, 2015

• 28 Should teams be allowed to trade players like assets?

• 28 Lazy Sundays

• 27 NHL win expectancy

• 27 HOF Model

• 26 Introducing Individualized Weighted Shots (aka Cane)

• 25 Tradition!  NL Institutes Pitch Clock… in 1901

• 23 Ranking all 122 major pro teams analytics departments

• 22 True Talent and Random Variation

• 21 Whether we say it from our basement or from the baseball field, it doesn’t matter

• 21 Strike Zone UZR for hitters

• 21 Why the NHL Was Right to Rename Corsi, Fenwick & PDO

• 21 NHL John Collins echoing how MLBAM operates

• 21 Two kinds of Random-Variationistas

• 21 Forecasting Primer

• 20 Wanna be an NHL GM?  Start by being an NHL player

• 20 Selection bias, or why FB pitchers are just as effective as GB pitchers

• 19 Big Data Baseball and the Pirates

• 19 NHL embracing advanced stats

• 18 Physics of Fielding

• 18 NBA Leverage Index

• 15 “I feel it’s best to know all of the numbers, and assign value accordingly.”

• 15 W/L equivalency

• 15 Interviews

• 14 Chess 960

• 14 Do we care about a metric correlating with itself or with the thing we’re actually interested in?

• 14 NHL players did not “lose” any salaries

• 13 Steamer for the win

• 13 Jon Stewart’s BABIP

• 13 NY Giants Brett Jones

• 12 Collection of individuals v Individuals

• 12 Bleg: Was Harold Reynolds a fielding genius in 1989-90?

• 11 Science behind outdoor rinks

• 11 When will Kershaw will no longer be #1?

• 11 Swing Speed

• 10 Ottawa Hockey Analytics

• 10 Bias in age calculations

• 09 Imagine if players and teams had to court each other?

• 08 Support The Book: buy anything other than The Book at Amazon

• 08 Evolution in strikeouts continues to test our theories

• 08 Change in playing time, as a proxy for aging in talent

• 07 Assigning Individualized Wins-Losses for a single game

• 07 Relievers and leverage

• 07 Inanity of “worst-contract” articles

• 07 WAR is (currently) the Best

• 06 Max Scherzer just did what MLB teams do

• 06 Dewayne Wise, or The Search for the Face of Replacement Level

• 05 NBA Strength of Schedule

• 05 Ben Revere’s assists.  All of them.  GIFfed.  With Jeff Sullivan commentary.

• 05 Dr. Alan Nathan Joins Diamond Kinetics as Technical Advisor

• 05 Trout v Kershaw

• 05 Mixed-model approach to catcher performance

• 05 Naming rights… to subway lines

• 04 Would you prefer more baseball or less?

• 04 Removing the draft

• 03 Can you figure out which batters get fooled by sequencing?

• 02 How often should a team try for a run from the 1-yard line?

• 02 Chris Christie’s nuanced position on vaccinations is disingenuous

• 01 Beast Mode

• 01 CEO of BABIP

• 01 Free agent valuations