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2010

August, 2010

• 31 Poz v Tango

• 31 Crowd has spoken: Crawford 5-6 yrs, 16-17MM a year

• 31 Forecasters Challenge 2010 - Latest Update

• 31 Typical bad managing by a bad manager…

• 31 Can someone tell me why Trevor Hoffman is still allowed to pitch?

• 30 How hard can it possibly be to estimate a crowd?

• 30 Digitally expressing pitching grips

• 29 Visual fielding plays

• 29 Jack Morris?  How about Guidry and Viola?

• 29 Manager ejection

• 29 Interesting play

• 28 PITCHf/x Summit 2010 - Recaps

• 28 Pitching machines until age 16?

• 28 Hunter at it again…

• 27 A responsible headline?

• 27 Could Rob Dibble have been a comp for Strasburg?

• 27 Bill James on social justice

• 27 Kristi + THT

• 27 How to do true talent batter platoon splits

• 27 Why are minor league umpires allowed to eject MLB players?

• 27 Move over Carlos Ruiz, make way for Andres Torres

• 27 Blogger tax licence

• 27 Strasburg -> Tommy John

• 26 Wow, I am quoted as the “lead-in” for a blog…

• 26 Mariners offense

• 26 3 strikeouts, or one HR?

• 26 John Olerud

• 26 Average duration of game

• 26 Florent Clairambault

• 26 This week in disproportionate penalty in golf

• 26 Jeff Passan v Loria/Samson/Selig

• 26 Pirates incentivized to not win?

• 25 Mainstream media protects its own, goes after blogger

• 25 Team Elin

• 25 Where is the Angels “beat the projections and pythag record magic” this year?

• 24 Strasburg predictions

• 24 Weather research paper

• 24 Regression equations for pitcher events

• 24 Fans Scouting Report, By the Fans, For the Fans: 2010

• 24 Groundball pitchers without a big fastball: yuck

• 24 Teaching sabermetrics

• 24 MLB financial data

• 23 The Producers

• 23 Revisionist history is more powerful than sabermetrics

• 23 Is Gary Bettman in charge of the LPGA?

• 23 Good hitting v good pitching

• 21 Jazz: how to win at hangman

• 21 Who doesn’t love goalies?

• 20 Generic MVP thread

• 20 The perfect mistake

• 20 Bayes is Regression Toward The Mean

• 20 Experts speak

• 20 NHL v IOC

• 20 “If you’re not tinkering and you’re not thinking, you’re going to end up stalling”

• 20 Northern California Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Sports

• 19 Koko the monkey takes a beating

• 19 Run values by the 24 base-out states

• 19 Blogger v WADA

• 19 Draft pick compensation to replenish lost talent

• 19 The greatness, or not, of Josh Hamilton

• 19 Knuckleball hangover, part 2

• 19 Game theory on the squeeze

• 18 Uhhh, no

• 18 Should a pitcher take three strikes, rather than (possibly) swing into a DP?

• 18 Understanding DIPS

• 18 Guinea pigs

• 17 Find something you love…. and then get the love sucked out of it

• 17 Articles 11 and 26

• 17 Why do the Marlins and Royals exist?

• 17 Umpires and close plays

• 17 PSA

• 17 Twitter mail of the day

• 13 Control the territory, win the game

• 13 2011 Hall of Fame ballot - Mock Up

• 13 “Sh-t My Dad Says”

• 13 Competing clauses in the CBA

• 13 “Ask me next year”

• 13 In a universe filled wih Paul Malholm, it’s Bill Hall, not Prince Fielder, that is the hitting star

• 12 NHL challenges deal that makes sense

• 12 Stallone

• 12 Poland v USA

• 12 Latest Replacement Level thread

• 12 Ted Williams, saberist

• 12 WAR and the Rule V draft

• 11 “The problems with…”

• 11 Count-component Linear Weights

• 11 When to go from eyes to the numbers

• 11 Halladay’s new changeup

• 11 EqA (TAv) coalescing around Linear Weights

• 11 The anti-Shea Hillebrand

• 11 Poz v USSM

• 11 Is Jeff Francoeur the new Shea Hillenbrand?

• 11 Post-event Tweets of the Fangraphs Live event

• 10 iScore Review

• 10 Club Head Speed

• 10 Poz: meet Marcel

• 10 The compassionate triple-play umpire?

• 10 The inconsistent AJ Burnett

• 10 The test for unfair PED

• 10 The best non-pitchers since 2001

• 10 This generation of pitchers

• 09 “But the goal should be a palatable balance between hitting and defense.”

• 09 Unofficial Fangraphs NYC recap

• 09 Poll: Do you post as an alias with a typical-sounding name?

• 08 PITCHF/x at SABR40

• 08 Backlash against blogger’s stance on service time

• 08 Reality TV to save low-level sports

• 08 Twitter

• 07 SABR40 Marcel outliers

• 07 Alan Nathan at SABR40

• 07 Felix throws 91mph curveball?

• 06 Parking near Yankee Stadium

• 06 Liveblogging SABR40

• 06 Margin of error on offense

• 06 Pedro speaks

• 06 Would you prefer a break in the action for ads, or no break with in-game ads?

• 06 CRLF Hack

• 06 Reader Mail of the Week: Volleyball strategies

• 06 The Impact of Pitch Counts and Days of Rest on Performance

• 05 WPA introduced 40 years ago

• 05 Bush v Gore

• 05 Poll: Is Tango too tough on his peers?

• 05 Mariners fans meet the front office

• 05 Evaluating Fielding Forecasts

• 05 WPA discoveries: Art Shamsky

• 05 More beliefs of Ken Funck

• 05 What is the break-even point?

• 04 Leaders in kwERA

• 04 Confidence Intervals for the Pythagorean Formula in Baseball

• 04 How many runs does a great fielding pitcher save?

• 03 Fangraphs Live in NYC (L’Alliance Francaise), update

• 03 Odds Ratio Method: track runners and baseball

• 03 Greatest WPA play in Super Bowl history

• 03 Morgan Ensberg asks…

• 02 God and .500

• 02 “The American people [verb]...”

• 02 Individual players influence goalie save percentage

• 02 “Judge The Performance, Not The Character”

• 02 Does it matter how you rest your guys?