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2009

December, 2009

• 31 Neyer on Raines

• 31 Changng “stuff” by number of pitches thrown

• 30 Mike Silva Chronicles - Parts 1 through 10 placeholder

• 30 Sabermetric Lesson: WAR

• 30 Lou Whitaker - Best Player in MLB history eligible but not in the hall of fame?

• 30 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 10: Future

• 30 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 9: Fantasy Game

• 30 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 8: Hall of Fame

• 30 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 7: Salesmen

• 30 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 6: Goal?

• 30 Fangraphs park factors for pitchers

• 29 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 5: Stat saturation

• 29 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 4: FIP

• 29 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 3: WAR and finances

• 29 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 2: WAR

• 29 Mike Silva Chronicles - Part 1: UZR

• 29 Title Drop

• 29 Roy Smalley, (personal) Hall of Famer

• 29 Swing Zones

• 29 Mamma Mia: Poz v Tango

• 29 WAR v WARP3

• 28 Evaluating a trade

• 28 “Clearly, wins is a flawed stat” —Bert something-or-other

• 28 wOPS+ = Follow the HOF trail

• 27 Feeding, or starving, the trolls

• 25 Hall of Fame 2010 Ballot: The Book Blog and Fangraph readers decided…

• 25 Poll: Hall of Fame Ballot - Alomar or Blyleven ?

• 24 Poll: Hall of Fame Ballot - Survivor Island style

• 23 Poll: Hall of Fame Ballot - Most Outstanding Players

• 23 Best and worst transaction of the decade

• 23 Javy Vazquez for… that’s it?

• 23 UZR ... for congressmen?

• 22 Sabermetrics-approved HOF ballot

• 22 Six Baseball Books for the holidays

• 22 What differences can we discern between a pitcher’s best and worst starts?

• 21 Psst… wanna work at Baseball Prospectus?

• 21 Bloomberg Baseball Technology

• 21 The fielding highlight reel

• 21 Contract albatrosses

• 21 Change in scoring rates in the NHL by time left

• 21 Article on ESPN Insider

• 21 Where should the home plate umpire stand to call balls and strikes?

• 18 Dart system… for pitchers

• 18 Fan voting gone bad?

• 18 Sabermetrics Syllabus

• 18 WPA primer

• 18 Corey Koskie v Justin Morneau

• 18 What pitchers throw, depending on the catcher

• 18 Who writes these laws (and why)?

• 17 Proof of the modified OPS

• 17 Courting the HOF voters

• 17 American Health Care Bill - By the numbers ONLY

• 17 Poz on Raines

• 17 Baseball is not all of sports

• 17 The best defenders (according to UZR) of the decade

• 17 Is the number of PA a player gets in a season or in several seasons a proxy for true talent?

• 16 Forecasters Challenge 2010

• 16 Medical expert v hockey expert

• 16 Expected points by down, yards to go

• 15 Best Players of the 2000-09 decade

• 15 Sky, take 2 on dollar values of free agent wins

• 14 The Tiger apology

• 14 Get out of the way inferior OPS+, make way for the better wRC+

• 13 “Openly gay” mayor elected in Houston

• 12 MGL’s Aging Study

• 11 wOBA Primer

• 11 Rick Rypien, technical fighter

• 11 The Single Entity 30_or_32-Franchise Business

• 09 How to guarantee you will lead the NHL’s point standings

• 08 New Cy Young ballots

• 08 “I slept with Tiger Woods!”

• 08 Free agent tracker - implied cost per win

• 08 Where are the Marcels?

• 08 The fate of the Sabermetric Wiki

• 07 Movies: Taken (Liam Neeson)

• 07 The relic that is the compensation system

• 07 Marvin Miller, follow-up

• 07 Dual positions

• 05 Is the WAR-salary model broken?

• 05 WPA for NFL

• 04 Why so few arbitration offers for free agents?

• 04 Explaining the win to dollar translation

• 04 Max on run value of pitch, by count

• 04 Game Score using FIP

• 04 Slave owners in modern times: NCAA

• 04 How the height of the pressbox affects the classification of an airball being a line drive

• 04 Who is a replacement-level player?

• 03 Need work to be sharp

• 03 Everything you wanted to know about… (courtesy of Yahoo Sports)

• 02 Psst… wanna work as an MLBAM stringer?

• 02 The latest (and last I hope?) JC thread on this site

• 02 Official does not mean correct, when it comes to scorers

• 01 WAR, Salary, and Service: Estimating Dollars Per Win

• 01 What does the Redsox owner know about competitive balance?