THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2010

July, 2010

• 31 When journalists practice pyschology,you get this

• 30 Start thinking outside the NEW box

• 30 Using HitTracker to predict ARod’s 600th HR

• 30 How much uncertainty is there with players?

• 30 How much for Longoria?

• 30 How much is the Statue of Liberty worth?

• 30 Expanded pitch classifications

• 30 BABIP by count, applied to pitchers’ frequencies

• 30 A very good FAQ on the Plus/Minus defensive system…

• 29 Cleveland: Meet Patrick Roy

• 29 Kristi Dosh: Meet Wayne Gretzky

• 29 “I believe…”

• 29 Colin full-time at BPro

• 29 Roy Halladay’s Bobby Orr career

• 29 Bannister: the greatest saberist spokesperson ever

• 29 SABR 101 / 111 - Bases and Outs

• 29 Maddon at it again…

• 28 Brian Bannister speaks saberistically

• 28 Lists, baby, lists

• 28 SABR 111 - Out value

• 28 SABR 101 - Outs

• 28 Reducing bias in fielding metrics

• 28 SABR 111 - Base values

• 28 Gotta give Joe Torre some credit

• 27 Comic

• 27 Kovulchuk: playing with fire?

• 27 SABR 101 - Bases

• 27 Chance v Skill

• 26 More changes of the veteran’s committee

• 26 Canadians: clean and boring

• 26 Blast from the past: The argument for subtracting HR in Runs Produced

• 26 More clutch kicking

• 26 Ubaldo = Regression, using PITCHf/x

• 26 Updated version of Total Zone, on Fangraphs

• 26 The Perfect Player

• 26 How far is too far?

• 26 What does Ortiz have that Vlad and Hideki don’t have?

• 26 “Orient people to learn”

• 26 Another fundamental skill the old timers were better at: clutch!

• 25 Testing the fielding systems

• 25 Andre Dawson - HOF Worthy?

• 25 RIP Twitter feed of NHLer Paul Bissonnette

• 24 Least hyped players

• 23 Historical Marcels

• 23 If I was a ballplayer, I’d be…

• 23 The single price

• 23 Useless Friday afternoon post

• 23 Mailbags updated

• 23 The sweet spot of the playoff hunt and trading for players

• 23 How to evaluate a forecasting system, using David Price as our test case

• 22 Players to foreclose on

• 22 Ben Zobrist, typical adult worker

• 22 Preparation for the Intangibles Survey

• 22 Simple PZR

• 22 Felix 2009 v Felix 2010

• 22 Feldman: The Steroid Era: Its Lasting Scar? Listening to the media talk about steroids

• 22 Forecasters Challenge 2010 - Mid-season results

• 21 Hot Pitchers better than Cold Pitchers, of equal talent

• 21 Scoring practices not a source for drops in recorded errors?

• 21 The Book: written in the style of Isaac Asimov

• 21 Change in number of pitches thrown

• 21 Blogger Murray Chass continues to bang the service time drum

• 21 When Rain Man goes on The Price Is Right… and gets the Showcase Showdown to the dollar

• 21 Salary Cap Hit

• 20 Mandy Housenick

• 20 Blogging economists

• 20 Fangraphs Live in NYC (L’Alliance Francaise)

• 20 Frequency of pitching injuries, and recovery time

• 20 Pitchers wOBA leaderboard

• 20 FEETf/x?

• 20 W/W - Wins over Willie

• 19 Amphetamines

• 17 xWHIP calculator

• 17 WPA for relievers in 1950

• 16 Sports blogger writing about non-sports

• 16 Python for baseball

• 16 NBA free throw shooters choke late in close games

• 16 State of fielding

• 16 And yet more HR derby hangover effects

• 16 Forecaster’s Challenge - update 2

• 15 The Death Match

• 15 Fastball speeds at the ASG: average of 96mph!

• 15 Getting a chance to play

• 15 TV in 3D

• 15 Jeff Ma

• 15 Best and Worst Clutch Hitters of the Retrosheet era

• 15 Taylor Lautner as Wolverine?

• 14 The Picasso death effect

• 14 Cliff Lee’s historic K/BB pace

• 14 Derek Jeter has 3,022 MLB hits so far

• 14 Elegant Simplicity of wOBA

• 14 wOBA for pitchers

• 14 WAR of the all-star game participants

• 14 What happens when the MLBPA meets the NHLPA

• 14 wOBA by Strike Zone location

• 14 Prospect Surplus Value

• 14 Forecaster’s Challenge - update 1

• 13 Bunting with the pitcher due up in the inning

• 13 Polanco, Jeter and tomatoes

• 13 Would you rather own Joe Mauer Properties or Domonic Brown Properties?

• 13 HR Derby Hangover effect - with control group

• 13 Joe Morgan’s peak

• 13 RIP George Steinbrenner

• 13 Sabermetric radio preparation

• 12 Strasburg and Leake… as boys

• 12 World Cup Sportsmanship

• 12 Psst… wanna hire Tango?

• 12 How to do a Futures Game

• 12 Year of The Pitcher, 2010?

• 11 Felix, at best, 83rd best player in MLB?

• 11 Text of a new counting stat + talk of WAR

• 11 Girl’s voice-over reacts to Ichiro touching her leg

• 10 How important is it to get the Linear Weights coefficient correct?

• 09 The Secret behind Ben Zobrist

• 09 James Carroll loves UZR

• 09 Do you want to bet Rob Neyer?

• 09 Choking soccer kickers

• 09 Birth of Bloomberg Sports

• 09 Playoff games in the regular season

• 09 Most games played in the field

• 09 HR Derby Hangover effect

• 09 Lebron James and puppy dogs

• 09 World Cup Jabulani’s knuckleball

• 08 Simkus newsletter

• 08 Selling the present for a better future

• 08 Minor league fielding leaders

• 07 PITCHf/x Summit 2010

• 07 Joe Sheehan newsletter

• 07 Mailbags

• 07 25 wins for Halladay?

• 07 What happens when a league restricts movement and money?

• 07 David Wright’s swing zones

• 07 Looking for World Cup Liveblogs

• 07 A perfect use of WPA

• 07 Drop in scoring

• 07 Safe haven for gay athletes

• 07 Pitcher strikeout spikes: what to expect

• 07 Stolen Bases and PITCHf/x

• 07 “Bridging The Great Baseball Analysis Divide”

• 07 G20: “We want to be safe, but we need to be freeâ€?

• 07 Lebron’s best economic move

• 07 Can this be right?

• 07 Maddon the genius again…

• 07 Biggest bust in sports?

• 07 Help BPro be better

• 06 Using PITCHf/x to see who crouches

• 06 Koufax’s peak

• 06 Option-buying on potential future post-season games

• 06 NHL Rule 26 + World Cup of Soccer

• 06 Gerry Conlon (the Irishman portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis), today

• 06 Interleague win% since 2004

• 06 I really wish people would stop quoting a player’s UZR/150 part way through the season!

• 06 Soccer quantified

• 06 TotalZone updates

• 06 Knuckleballer hangover effect

• 05 Pitch load effect on ERA

• 05 Minimax

• 05 1500 unread Readers

• 03 Scherzer: FIP and PITCHf/x proponent

• 03 WAR, or WARP if you must… but not VORP

• 02 Interesting article about saberists working for teams (and other things)...

• 01 Self-policing sportsmen

• 01 Manager and GM correlations with winning…