THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2009

March, 2009

• 31 Pick of the week

• 31 HZR, UZR, PZR: the convergence of scouting and performance

• 31 Diamond Mind baseball + leading forecasting systems = standings

• 31 Hang time

• 30 Points shaving

• 30 Championship Leverage Index

• 27 Best short interview (with a baseball player) I’ve read in a long time

• 27 2.5 mph = .025 K per PA = 0.25 ERA

• 26 Alan Nathan’s HR paper

• 26 Community Forecasts - Playing Time

• 25 The Holy Writers of Congress

• 25 John Brattain, RIP

• 25 The insider-ing of PITCHf/x-ers

• 25 A simple way for teams to come up with proper stealing strategies

• 25 Injuries following the WBC

• 24 Being Behind is a Good Thing (Part III)?

• 24 Japanese baseball

• 23 Best Goalie in the last 60 years

• 23 Nate McLouth, sabermetrician

• 23 Sean Forman’s bracket

• 23 “What do you think about James’s new method of evaluating teams on paper?”

• 23 Modelling approaches and strike zone

• 23 Economics of replacement level

• 23 Credit Derivatives

• 20 Changing the qualities of players

• 20 How to split

• 20 (Sabermetric) Book-of-the-Quarter

• 19 Cuba-Canada relations

• 19 A great interview with an athlete

• 19 A word on batting orders

• 19 Sports-nerd fight and slave-labor

• 19 I am sick and tired of bad “statistical reporting…”

• 19 Offensive rates as a function of base/out state…

• 18 Would you voluntarily return your bonus?

• 17 Being Behind is a Good Thing (Part II)?

• 16 “The Most Interesting Statement I Read Today”

• 16 Run value by pitch location

• 16 Is there a bias in PECOTA relative to speedsters?

• 16 Christy Mathewson was a sabermetrician

• 16 Poz meets SI

• 16 Being behind is a good thing?

• 13 Sample v True Talent

• 13 Dewan’s discovery

• 13 Scoring Distributions

• 12 World Series or WBC?

• 12 Effective Federal Tax Rates

• 12 Normalizing the Gameday hit location data

• 12 The Best Catcher of the Retrosheet era

• 12 Dave Cameron meets WSJ

• 11 Everything you wanted to know about the science of the bat/ball collision

• 11 Why does Win Shares hate Josh Beckett?

• 11 Vladimir

• 11 Bill James Goldmine 2009

• 11 The Fielding Bible

• 10 Publish whatever is in a press release

• 10 In-game win probability for Basketball

• 10 Wages of Wins

• 10 PITCHf/x at the WBC

• 09 Eric Walker and his high (boskage) horse…

• 09 The effect of replacing your coach mid-season

• 09 Don’t let us hit each other

• 09 How much will MLB attendance be down this year?

• 09 The Measure of Power

• 09 Quantitative Analyst Conference

• 07 Digitization of object movements in a baseball game

• 06 Need some computer/browser help please pertaining to MLB.tv video!

• 06 Hank Blalock

• 06 Wisdom of Crowd: Vote on Rule Changes?

• 06 How much is a great fielder worth?  25 runs.

• 05 How far would Juan Pierre have to defer his contract?

• 05 Dodgers being Dodgers

• 05 Dollars per win

• 05 Part-time baseball observation “grunt work” available

• 05 Best, worst WOWY since 1993, through age 34

• 05 The Watchmen

• 04 Outfield options

• 04 A skill that does not improve generationally

• 04 It is my experience that I recall things that didn’t happen, and I believe things that are not true

• 04 Everything you’ve wanted to know, and about to know, about performance on batted balls

• 03 Peer-reviewing bloggers

• 03 Daily Illini

• 03 Fielding Bible Excerpt

• 03 Farm Value Rankings

• 03 Rally’s Historical WAR

• 02 Colin tackles JC’s MRP model

• 02 Nuts and bolts

• 01 VORP, JustVORP, Rany, Murray Chass, and everything else