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2010

October, 2010

• 31 Does the SF lineup shakeup matter?

• 30 Why we are doomed to repeat history

• 30 Media recycles stories

• 30 On The Importance Of Playoff Experience

• 30 Should Bochy have pinch hit for Cain?

• 30 Proofiness, randumbness

• 29 Hal Smith, not Bill Mazeroski, is the HR to talk about

• 29 Pitching, Defense, and a George Brett

• 29 John Wetteland

• 29 Should Shane Victorino stop being a switch hitter?

• 29 “The worst player you’d accept to give up Joe Giradi”

• 29 What happens AFTER a team wins the first two games of the World Series?

• 29 Sometimes an apology just doesn’t fly…

• 29 The odds of a pitcher coming in and throwing 12 balls in 13 pitches…

• 29 What does Tangotiger mean by “luck”?

• 28 Conan v Jay

• 28 MLB’s love-hate relationship with 3B/2B

• 28 How much does playing Guerrero in Game 2 cost?

• 28 True Talent v Observations

• 28 Distributing playoff money

• 28 Tracers

• 28 Building a retrosheet database

• 28 What do sabermetricians mean by “luck?”

• 27 World Series available on Cablevision

• 27 History of gloves

• 27 Explaining game theory using rock-paper-scissors

• 27 Who is the Jon Stewart of baseball?

• 27 When to walk Josh Hamilton

• 27 Greatest Legal Filing

• 27 Eric Walker on Sandy Alderson

• 27 Jax and John Teller

• 27 World Series umpires heat maps

• 27 Did Dancing With the Stars make a math mistake?

• 27 How far to let batter-pitcher matchup dictate your choices?

• 26 Career post-season WPA

• 26 Cablevision v Fox

• 26 Fielder positioning

• 26 Sabermetrics = collection of data?

• 26 Expanded playoffs

• 26 Cutter classification

• 26 Jered Weaver

• 26 Jay Cutler, saberist

• 25 Poll: “I am NOT a Yankees fan. They have 150 million dollars to spend. If they were smart, spend on”

• 25 Poll: “I AM a Yankees fan. My team has 150 million dollars to spend. I’d rather it go to:”

• 24 If you don’t think that the outcome of a game or even a 7-game series is 95% luck and 5% talent…

• 24 This week in anarchy v monarchy

• 24 Two random observations from game 6 of the NLCS

• 22 Ichiro, ageless wonder

• 22 Nerd fight!

• 22 Buscones enablers

• 22 Roy Halladay’s emergence

• 21 Career Goals Scored

• 21 Psst… wanna work at BIS?

• 21 Someone Else’s Lab: Log5

• 21 Competitive balance across leagues

• 21 Scientific slugger

• 20 Does Nelson Cruz ever take a direct route to the ball?

• 20 Government subsidizing teams

• 20 Really cool story and video…

• 20 A Good Intentional Walk Day

• 20 Crowdsourcing by an NHL team

• 20 This week in silly Footballness celebrations

• 20 Do managers have much influence over their team’s pythag o/u?

• 19 Mickey Mantle’s baseball philosophy

• 19 Pitcher RE24

• 19 Sim Scores, WAR style

• 19 GM for a year

• 19 Poz on Lee

• 19 Upset at not bringing in Rivera in a low leverage situation?

• 18 Is there any merit to this argument?

• 18 eBooks and POD on Amazon

• 18 espnW

• 18 Playoffs v regular season

• 17 Bunting against great pitchers

• 16 What mistakes did Washington (Ron, that is) make?

• 15 Is MLB commissioner’s office infuencing TV broadcasters?

• 15 jashaun agosto

• 15 IBA

• 14 Differences in the uber stats

• 14 Allan Roth, saberist pioneer

• 14 Mike Sweeney

• 14 “Barbara Walters, you’re my hero”

• 14 Sports calls

• 14 Mike Fast -> BPro

• 14 Perception of curve ball

• 14 BIS bias, Bizz Buzz

• 14 Player-owners

• 13 Keeper Leagues

• 13 Game tagging

• 13 On a diving board at the wading pool

• 13 The Publisher of The Book (Potomac Books) has finally paid us our royalties

• 13 Game 163 playoffs

• 13 Sandy Koufax = Cliff Lee

• 13 Should they have stopped Andrus instead?

• 12 Proposed rules

• 12 Unconscious predictions

• 12 BCS

• 12 Can it be correct to take on a 3-2 count?

• 12 Wild card team is quality

• 12 Summary opinion without evidence

• 12 Derek Jeter(‘s girfriend) sexiest person 2010

• 11 Virtual Work Stoppage

• 11 Injury data, 2010

• 11 Poll: Video Review for NHL, NFL

• 11 Did Cox make the right decisions in game 3?

• 11 The Simpsons meets Sabermetrics

• 11 Freakonomics podcast, with MGL

• 09 “WPA is not perfect”

• 09 The overt unsporstmanlike plays

• 09 Is it really that hard to judge balls and strikes on TV?

• 08 Markov on Halladay v Lincecum

• 08 Friday afternoon education: don’t deconstruct FIP

• 08 Is baseball really a game of “adjustments?”

• 07 Tango’s Lab: Marcel Percentiles for non-MLB players

• 07 Media shutout of negotiations

• 07 Backwards pitcher

• 07 Well, it took 8 2/3 innings in game 3…

• 06 Playoff Mail of the Day

• 06 PECOTA game-day odds

• 06 Forecasters Challenge 2010 - Results!

• 05 World Series Odds

• 05 Tango’s Lab: Marcel Percentiles

• 05 Poll: And the Most Oustanding Player of 2010 is…

• 05 Intereresting Conundrum…

• 05 Poll: Most Outstanding Player 2010

• 04 Keri Podcast

• 04 PECOTA Percentile bugs

• 04 Poll: And the Most Oustanding Pitcher of 2010 is…

• 04 Phil nails it again about .300 hitters

• 04 Globe Gloves 2010

• 04 Poll: Most Outstanding Pitcher 2010

• 03 William Shatner

• 03 Pujols

• 03 All you have is the pitcher’s W/L record: what do you do?

• 02 Twins upset they are not making money from NBA ad

• 02 Why we want hang time

• 02 Two kinds of luck

• 02 Sitekeeping

• 01 Fangraphs and Pitcher WAR

• 01 Is there bad blood in the community?

• 01 Head-to-head Most Outstanding Pitcher

• 01 Walk rates and first pitch strikes

• 01 PECOTA Percentiles: finally!

• 01 How much of an advantage is HFA in the post-season?