THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2010

December, 2010

• 30 Bloggers 1000, Holy Writers 0

• 30 Oliver Primer

• 30 “Accuse us as we accuse them”

• 30 Poz v Heyman through Blyleven v Morris

• 29 Was Andre Dawson principally a CF or RF?

• 29 Shootout = crapshoot

• 29 Tangotiger challenge of the day: If not WAR, then what?

• 28 How much would Nolan Ryan make today?

• 28 Forecasted Standings for 2011

• 28 The Book - under 14$

• 28 Do low-talent teams overspend on free agents?

• 28 Mathematical sleight of hand

• 28 Homer Simpson v will.i.am + Usher

• 28 Will MLBPA be begging for revenue sharing?

• 28 Baseball America Top 100 list

• 28 Mario greatest in Pittsburgh history

• 28 Having problems logging into Primer?

• 27 High School HR Power Derby

• 27 Future dollars for future wins

• 26 MLB.com and censorship

• 24 Umpires and counts

• 24 PITCHf/s miscalibration

• 24 Why I can’t stand PED usage in MLB

• 24 Phyisics of frozen basketballs

• 24 Marcel Primer

• 24 Tangotiger Year-End Awards

• 23 Nemesis of the year

• 23 Worst ending in sports

• 23 Our HOF ballot

• 23 Do teams really make a stronger push for players if they are in the mid-80 wins talent level?

• 23 Primary Fielding Position

• 23 More sleeve rolling on Royals’ farm system

• 23 Last year’s 1 year deals on starting pitchers

• 23 Small sample size is not limited to just baseball fans

• 23 Is George Atis the a$$hole of the year?

• 23 Merry Xmas

• 23 But what an infielder have made the out?

• 23 Non-saber saber

• 22 Counsancourt?  Betansell?

• 22 Tretiak: legacy or legend

• 22 Multi-year relievers

• 22 Best clutch hitters since 1974

• 21 Saberfreak

• 21 Human element

• 21 Forecasting playing time

• 20 Now you see him, now you don’t… and then you see him again

• 20 Current state of fielding Primer

• 20 When each team always has a chance to win

• 20 Second Amendment and Superheroes

• 20 Redemption Island

• 20 THT Forecasts

• 20 RE24 and boLI

• 20 Greinke: Two years of undervalued asset

• 19 These are the people we elect to run our nation…

• 19 Economics of Fantasy Valuation

• 18 Who’s happy?

• 18 Dare to Dream

• 18 Extra inning rule

• 18 Cliff Lee

• 18 Wow, that’s the best response he can come up with?

• 18 Andy Pettitte

• 18 LHH RHH bias in umpire calls

• 18 Felix’s first 10 pitches

• 18 Jon Stewart + 9/11 responders = comedy gold

• 17 Yoda v Hulk

• 17 Being right by being wrong

• 17 Fantasy valuation

• 17 Reliability of minor league data

• 17 R language tutorial

• 17 Lemonade

• 17 What does it mean to be “offensive?”

• 16 BPro + SABR + NYC = 75 seats

• 16 No equilibrium in 2 point conversion?  Run more!

• 15 Strike zone, based on fastball v off-speed

• 15 Matt and batted balls, part 2 (a thread about baseball)

• 15 Sports Betting

• 15 Julian Bayes

• 15 Psst… wanna one-shot deal at scoring NHL data?

• 15 Is Hanley Ramirez loafing a necessary byproduct of the rest of his talent?

• 15 Matt and batted balls, part 1 (Tango’s reading issues)

• 15 Pablo Sandoval and WAR

• 14 Forecasting likelihood of starting pitchers being injured

• 14 Golden Globes

• 14 Cliff Lee 2008-present

• 14 Living Yield Curve

• 13 Excellent replacement-level simulation

• 13 Law lab

• 13 To Pujols or not to Pujols, part 2

• 13 Preparing for FIELDf/x

• 13 To Pujols or not to Pujols

• 13 Graphical wOBA by count

• 13 Hall of Fame podacsts

• 12 Pedro 1997-2003: Personalized Run Expectancy and Linear Weights

• 11 Replacement level in the media

• 11 Linear Weights 1993-2010

• 11 Comic book runs above average… or above replacement?

• 11 Sandy Alderson talks to bloggers

• 10 Bat speed v pitch speed

• 10 Braves stats and scouts

• 10 Fangraphs splits + multi-year, on the same request

• 10 Jeter’s contract breakdown

• 10 Phil, JC, and the future

• 10 Retrosheet Data - Batting, Pitching Hands

• 10 Tangotiger challenge of the day

• 09 Forkballs

• 09 Do players with speed skills age better?

• 09 Youtube: Bill James, Poz, Costas, Early

• 09 Since when has the “White House” become part of the legislative branch?

• 09 One less player on the playing area

• 09 Bases, Outs by Event

• 09 Fangraphs has splits leaderboards

• 08 NASA and online peer review

• 08 Luke Scott

• 08 Dave van Horne: the voice of my childhood

• 08 Boring math stuff not worthy of a blog post

• 08 Bias by batting hand

• 08 Posting system: foreclosure of collusive bidding, part 2

• 08 “In the beginning, Bill James created Baseball Abstract…”

• 08 BPro gift giving

• 08 Tom Verducci’s conflict of interest

• 08 Verducci v “Blogger Murray Chass”

• 08 Jeter tells his agent to f-ck -ff?

• 07 Defending the Werth deal

• 07 Segregation and Inclusion

• 07 NHL awards

• 07 Best Players Not in HOF

• 07 Alex Anthopoulos

• 06 FIP and the narrative of American history

• 06 Boardwalk Empire

• 06 Marvin Miller’s “Red speech” from Shawshank redemption didn’t work

• 06 Phil, JC, and MRP

• 06 Baseball perfect at age 10

• 06 Graphical run expectancy chart

• 04 Forecast Mat Latos

• 04 TruMedia - platform for PITCHf/x

• 04 Easy MIT entrance exam

• 03 Community Forecasts

• 03 Subject Matter Expert

• 03 CSI baseball

• 02 Best Birth Years

• 02 Mark Simon, ESPN, and sabremetrics

• 02 Our Lab: Bias in Batted Ball data

• 02 Cliff Lee

• 02 Poll: I have been following the fielding threads around here of late and…

• 02 Flyball distances for Yuni

• 01 Data files for 2010 available now

• 01 No CHONE in 2011

• 01 Expanding {blank} to {blank} is a terrible idea!

• 01 Tennis markov

• 01 Sons of Anarchy

• 01 Kardashians teach us

• 01 Was baseball meant to be 9 innings?

• 01 Conclusions?

• 01 What IS a FA worth?