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2010

September, 2010

• 30 Are you a 50 cent fan?

• 30 Twitter tracking

• 30 TV watchers, in tuneup for the Ryder Cup, sets their sights on Ohio’s smoking ban

• 30 Fans Scouting Report: Last call

• 30 WAR v MVP spectrum

• 30 History is written by the LOUDEST victors

• 30 Morgan Ensberg’s philosophy of hitting

• 30 Using injuries for forecasting

• 29 Tyler Wilson, boy cheerleader

• 29 RSS Feed for Comments

• 29 Halladay v Lee: does sequencing count

• 29 The Perfect Run Modeler - Perl version

• 29 Most Outstanding Pitchers - 2010 - nominations

• 29 “They invited Steven Colbert because… he’s Steven Colbert.”

• 29 PECOTA and Marcel on Ichiro

• 29 Will Carroll

• 29 Walks for GB pitchers are less costly?

• 28 Odds Ratio Method: head to head movies

• 28 Team Forecasts

• 28 Got Milk?

• 28 Ode to Baseball Digest

• 28 And the nine best baseball movies are…

• 28 Marcel = Chone = PECOTA

• 27 Catcher Spotting

• 27 How to write an article about a science paper

• 27 Movies Nomination List

• 27 Secret Sauce?  No more!

• 27 Poll: The Best Baseball Movie is…

• 27 Starting Pitching is one third of baseball… why do we give them a full win?

• 27 Juan Marichal and the 3 day rest

• 26 I wonder how third base coaches think about these things…

• 26 Is this true, and if yes, is it smart?

• 26 Most hits, age 27-36

• 26 Making strides

• 24 Strikeout rates and… that’s all there is

• 24 Rounding errors in yardage gained

• 24 What if pitcher wins would be called something else?

• 24 Baseball lemons

• 24 Attendance and HFA revisited

• 23 Felix Game Score

• 23 Does money buy wins?

• 23 Life and death of research ideas in the NHL

• 23 Ticket prices cut in half if the team doesn’t make the playoffs

• 23 Simple example of regression toward the mean

• 23 Not all TV commentators believe in clutch hitting

• 22 Optimal Bat Speed/Hand-Eye Contact Point and Andre Ethier

• 22 Tasteful sex appeal

• 22 Park component numbers by adjusting for identity of hitters and pitchers

• 22 More on the bat glove: but where’s the MLBPA in all this?

• 22 JQAS editor

• 21 Father and son

• 21 Accounting for runs allowed

• 21 THT Annual 2011

• 21 Rox VP ok with opposing coaches as umpires

• 21 When is a non-intentional walk intentional?

• 20 Yes, someone does have to die

• 20 Poll: How important is each trait for each fielding position?

• 20 Rivera pitches inside/outside, but not at all counts

• 20 Fans Scouting Report: Another Update

• 20 Roger Ebert v Phoenix+Affleck

• 20 Extratec bats

• 19 Hockey Prospectus 2011

• 19 Changeup at 93mph

• 19 Reliability of UZR

• 19 Can we please stop with this announcer nonsense?

• 17 Cy Young definition has… changed!

• 17 Rounding errors

• 17 Academic referees

• 17 Handedness park factors

• 17 Marc Rubin

• 17 K’s

• 17 Are these any different?

• 16 Derek being Alex

• 16 More on Ryan Howard’s WAR

• 16 Wars of WARs

• 16 My mini-study on attendance and wins

• 16 Either a horrible study or terrible journalism…

• 15 Does Home Field Advantage differ for different teams?

• 15 “Behind the Seams: The Pitching Paradigm” - Documentary about the evolution of pitching

• 15 B-R.com’s updated park factors

• 15 Another SABR course

• 15 Jeter v Mariano

• 15 Hockey aging curves

• 15 What park factors to use for awards…

• 14 Ines Sainz in the Sports Reporter Spectrum?

• 14 Visual Expos

• 14 Article for THT Annual 2011

• 14 Defending NCAA

• 14 WAR as an example of critical thinking

• 14 THT Graphical Reports

• 14 Instructions for Cy Young

• 13 Is there anyone out there that will print the instructions from the Cy Young ballot?

• 13 How much value is going deep to your team?

• 13 Pitch counts and long tossing

• 13 Baseball Mythbusters

• 13 Rules are guidelines

• 13 Poz’s ode to WAR

• 13 RE, bunts, and Larussa

• 12 The case against Felix and Cy

• 12 Fans Scouting Report: 0 to 100

• 12 Sac bunting on 3-0?

• 11 Felix v CC Game Score graph

• 11 Understanding Ryan Howard’s WAR

• 11 Moneypuck

• 10 Full bayesian way to do regression to the mean

• 10 Felix v CC

• 10 Tango’s Lab: Game Score

• 10 Free agents who signed multi-year deals in 2010

• 10 Fans Scouting Report: Update again

• 10 Images of children as speed bumps

• 09 Where are teams putting their best and worst infielder?

• 09 Alan Nathan and Greg Rybarczyk on humidors

• 09 Using more specific populations for regression

• 09 Fans Scouting Report: Update

• 09 If you burn a book, but no one was there to see it, did it really happen?

• 09 Watch every pitch, every play, from every game?

• 08 Home park adjustments

• 08 Secret Sauce?

• 08 Constructing fielding spectum values

• 08 MySQL VIEW access problem

• 08 Home court advantage in tennis

• 08 Fielding spectrum values

• 08 Captain Dunsel

• 08 This week in retroactive championship removal insanity

• 07 Reader mail of the day: Understanding wOBA

• 07 Changing bats

• 07 I agree

• 07 Relegation in MLB

• 07 Is WAR useful for Awards voting?

• 06 Simple Playoff Probability

• 06 Fan ownership?  Best team in the league

• 06 This Week in Silly Baseballness

• 05 Half-way to a win

• 04 NHL, NHLPA codify rules for cap circumvention

• 04 Can I choose door #3?

• 03 This week in golf insanity

• 03 The Case for Kovulchuk’s (second) contract

• 03 Expected games played following a full season of health

• 02 The two uncertainties of UZR

• 02 More on Morris and Cox, bloggers / editors

• 02 It’s hard to beat the crowd (Vegas in this case) no matter how smart you think you are

• 02 Roger Federer

• 02 Ryan Howard: Mr September

• 02 WOWY Teachers

• 01 Jose Bautista

• 01 Workload Regularity Score

• 01 Strasburg II

• 01 Who’s Waldo?