THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2008

October, 2008

• 31 David Frost

• 31 MLB season is too long?

• 30 Fielding Bible Award winners

• 30 Why the f!@# is the World Series so boring these years?

• 30 Pitching mechanics primer

• 30 MGL v managers

• 29 Liveblog World Series Game 5, Rainfree

• 29 A (simple and easy) test for Joe Maddon

• 29 Marcel Q&A

• 29 Scouting Report on Managers

• 29 Introduction to the landscape of sabermetrics

• 29 The Forecasters Challenge 2009

• 28 Scouting Play-by-play logs

• 28 Bill James nuggets

• 28 Buy The Book, BPro’s BBTN, JC’s Economist for $29, free shipping

• 28 Where we are with PITCHf/x

• 28 Suspended games

• 27 Do first_half/second_half splits mean anything?

• 27 09 defensive projections from Chone

• 27 Scouting Jeremy Affeldt

• 27 Fielding Forecasts

• 27 Minorities

• 27 Liveblog World Series Game 5

• 26 Liveblog World Series Game 4

• 26 Is the AL still better than the NL, and if yes, is it pitching, hitting, or both?

• 25 Inside the (Vacuous) Mind of a World Series Manager

• 25 Who is it that is a nut case here?

• 25 UZR 2003-2008

• 24 Home field advantage by component

• 24 UZR positional adjustments, revised with 2008 UZR

• 24 First half, second half splits

• 24 Batted Ball 2008

• 23 First Pitch Arizona - Forecast Challenge

• 23 How good are the Fans in evaluating fielding?

• 23 Mark Ellis v Orlando Hudson

• 22 Will Carroll is right!

• 22 Poll: How many wins will O-Dawg contribute in 2009?

• 22 Equal pay for equal work?  Or simply unequal pay for unequal work?

• 22 Billy Beane

• 22 FIP, extended

• 21 Poll: How many wins will Mark Ellis contribute in 2009?

• 21 Limited usefulness of batting average

• 21 Odds of the Rays winning

• 21 Jersey Database

• 20 Panic mode in Redsox nation?

• 20 Mark Ellis

• 18 How much is chemistry worth?

• 18 Positioning your outfield (and infield) according to the game situation

• 17 Minor style changes

• 17 Presidential Comedians

• 17 Starter, reliever or swingman?

• 17 Fans Scouting Report - Full Preliminary Results

• 17 What happens when you add a player who never makes out to an average lineup?

• 16 The Endy Chavez family of players

• 16 Judges for Fantasy Sports

• 15 Psst… wanna work for John Dewan?

• 15 Challenging Nate Silver (and all other forecasters)

• 15 Can we please, please, pretty please, stop saying silly, meaningless things like this…

• 15 Do you really want the best team to win the World Series?

• 15 Link-o-rama

• 15 Correlation is not causation, example #756,874,127

• 15 BP merges with BDD

• 15 Red Light District

• 15 Commercials during the post-season

• 10 Inside the Mind of a Manager

• 08 The future of your team

• 08 Nate Silver meets Stephen Colbert

• 07 Vote: Most Outstanding Players of 2008

• 07 Complete WAR, 2008

• 07 Last time each team won a playoff series

• 06 Power or Finesse Pitchers in the Post-season?

• 06 Evaluating the 2008 Forecasting Systems

• 05 While it is next to impossible for us (as outsiders) to evaluate managers…

• 03 Complete Linear Weights, 2008

• 02 How can we “predict” which teams will do well in the post-season?

• 02 Baseball Thesis

• 02 Situational Wins

• 02 Nate Silver meets Dan Rather

• 01 Sabermetric Playoffs

• 01 HR rates by height