THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2011

May, 2011

• 31 iPhones don’t attack people… umpires attack people

• 31 Aging curves, various categories

• 31 “When you step on that field there’s a promise that you make with everybody else: Slide or avoid.”

• 31 Moving your middle infielders toward the lines, based on the fielding talent of your pitcher

• 31 Who should hand out the Stanley Cup?

• 31 Sportsmanlike and child labor

• 31 George Lucas

• 31 Relocation, 15 years later

• 31 Rum and Coke

• 31 Do ace relievers collapse faster than other pitchers?

• 31 Incentivizing Potty Training

• 31 Evolving (revolving?) Prospectus

• 31 Late and close free throws: choke effect

• 30 Example of a catcher actually blocking home plate

• 30 Best experience at an MLB park, according to Yelp readers

• 28 Recreational sabermetrics

• 27 Value of a college education

• 27 Best sport for a first date?

• 27 Pitch recognition

• 27 Institutionalizing Irrationality

• 27 Keeping your batting order static

• 27 David Cone, saberist

• 27 Escrow

• 27 Life of a sports commentator

• 26 How to win at blackjack

• 26 Fewer runners reaching base, faster games

• 26 Posey at the plate

• 26 Which players do fans like?

• 26 Great use of Leverage Index

• 26 Ace reliever or starter in the 9th?

• 26 Reader Mail of the Day: Can you predict a new park to have a neutral factor?

• 25 Aubrey Huff at 3B?

• 25 Ultimate baserunning

• 25 Corked bats and humans

• 25 Another stat symposium

• 24 How to self-publish a book

• 24 Batted Ball Puzzler

• 24 Scientific Baseball in 1916

• 24 K minus BB differential or ratio?

• 24 One of the funnier (sadder?) ones….

• 24 NHL history, through the lens of the Jets

• 24 Baseball ProGUESTus: answers (part 1)

• 24 UZR Background

• 24 Fangraphs goes live with base running linear weights!

• 23 Quote of the day: At least they are now legitimately a Non-Prophet organization.

• 23 Pledge-a-picket

• 23 Pull rate on flyballs

• 23 Batting Approach Philosophy by Marlon Byrd

• 23 New fielding runs for BPro

• 23 Prince Fielder v Adrian Gonzalez

• 23 BPro archives free

• 23 Denying the Black ballplayer

• 23 Rediscovering The Simpsons

• 23 Bunting with Granderson

• 23 Catcher interference skill

• 23 Boston Conference Aftermath…

• 21 Runs and extra innings

• 21 Nate Silver addresses Columbia students

• 20 Quantitative analysts in the NBA: complete(ish) list

• 20 Adjusted Plus-Minus

• 20 Trading location for velocity and movement

• 20 AL/NL disparity

• 20 Jose Bautista: like Bret Boone… but better!

• 20 Todd Stordahl qualified to run the PGA

• 20 Brandon Phillips can do no wrong

• 20 Jeter: Tony Soprano or not?

• 19 Hit Where Pitched

• 19 Currency exchange rates

• 19 Do minor league hitters with great BB:K ratio have a better chance at immediate success than others?

• 19 Small sample size BABIP

• 19 Ode to print encyclopedias

• 19 Pitching to the corners, part one

• 19 Ensuring K-Rod’s option does not vest, by trading him to a team with an established closer

• 19 Baseball ProGUESTus

• 19 How good does your starter have to be for this to be correct?

• 18 Vin Mazzaro

• 18 Unfrozen caveman saberist: wOBA in the dugout

• 18 BE Press’s latest

• 18 Derek Jeter: History Told You So

• 18 Jorge being Murray

• 18 Why baseball fans, why? (inter-conference play)

• 18 Better Know a Blogger: Rally

• 17 Another person deemed better qualified to preserve the sanctity of marriage than Mr Sulu

• 17 Lego

• 17 Versus is (much) better than ESPN for hockey

• 16 ESPN tell-all book

• 16 Hardball Times e-Book

• 16 Google is not infallible

• 16 Ensberg’s whereabouts

• 15 wOBA, Russell Martin, ESPN: 19:40 ET tonight

• 14 Just in case you needed another reason to think that Trump and Beck were buffoons…

• 14 Disconnect between perception and reality (number 3,192)...

• 14 Great slide

• 13 Poz did the impossible

• 13 Nomar, Vlad: model for quick signings

• 13 Paper: Sabermetric and Microeconomic Perspectives on Free Agent Contracts

• 13 Diamond Mind articles

• 13 KC Yankees (1955-1960)

• 13 David Schoenfield hates the Expos

• 13 Lastings Milledge or LASTINGS MILLEDGE?

• 13 Moving along the mound, based on handedness of batter

• 12 Super Two

• 12 Squeezing Brandon League

• 12 Felix speaks

• 12 Relief specialization paying off?

• 12 Trends in fastball speed

• 11 BABIP, in April, year by year

• 11 Is PED out of baseball?

• 11 Union and management heart each other

• 11 Automated Parking Space Tracking

• 11 Video scouts: saberists that roll up their sleeves and watch a game… and a speadsheet

• 11 Straight-flying golf balls

• 10 Are girls being treated as second-class sports citizens?

• 10 When sports memorabilia attacks!

• 10 Poker is a game of skill, not luck

• 10 Nadal / Djokovic

• 09 Reader Mail of the minute: apparent vagaries in wOBA

• 09 Stop the (prediction) insanity!

• 09 Book reviews

• 09 Clint Hurdle, saber-appreciating?

• 09 Breach of Contract Letter To Potomac Books

• 09 Best TV finales ever

• 07 World Series: top diminished sporting event

• 07 Markov football

• 06 Married MLB players earn more than single MLB players of the same quality?

• 06 Run Expectancy Matrix - 2011 is 1969-1992

• 06 Is alot of rest too much rest, heading into a playoff series?

• 06 Waiting for the death of a child

• 06 Re-ordering batting streaks

• 05 Poll: What is the ratio of caught foul tips to dropped foul tips by a catcher?

• 05 Attendance 1969-1997, 1998-2004

• 05 Play-Index expanded

• 05 Ichiro, the selective free-swinger

• 05 Meet the Rays

• 05 Bill James, Stephen Colbert, tonight

• 05 RSS feed no good: use Atom feed instead

• 05 Is Posada the worst base runner in the world?

• 05 Big Brother

• 04 Sports reading in Manhattan

• 04 Netflix of books?

• 04 NHL Elo Player Rater

• 04 Overcast, with a chance of good hitting

• 04 OF Arms

• 04 Sign of the apocalypse

• 04 If not Jeter, then who?

• 04 Why are NHL referees afraid to call for a penalty shot?

• 04 Character debate

• 04 Platoon splits recap

• 04 Justine Siegal

• 04 Game Score-ing Liriano’s No-hitter

• 03 A typical first-overall pick is… Phil Nevin

• 03 Game theory and science, in 1911 Baseball

• 03 Gassko’s thesis on Free Agency

• 03 Yes, clutch skill exists!  Hello?  We know that already.

• 03 Through-Counts

• 03 At-Counts

• 03 Canadian elections

• 03 Vargas

• 02 Life and Times of Stanley Cup

• 02 Stars at all 8 positions

• 02 Fans hanging signs in stadium for achievements

• 02 Gretzky rookie

• 02 Bunting against Wakefield

• 02 Where were you?

• 02 Listening to Bobby Valentine makes me long for Joe Morgan