THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2011

September, 2011

• 30 MLB, playoffs, and streaming

• 30 MVP

• 30 List: best to worst team in sports

• 30 Ken Dryden, head injuries, and Grantland

• 29 Jack Wilson: the ballplayer’s tragedy

• 29 Do teams put the better fielder at 2B or 3B?

• 29 Payroll v Wins, in the Moneyball era (2002-2011)

• 29 Greatness of baseball

• 29 Globe Glove winner 2011: Troy Tulowitzki

• 29 Retrosheet’s inner workings

• 29 Poll: You have 100MM$ burning in your pocket. Which youngster do you sign for the next 4 years?

• 28 Kershaw v Strasburg

• 28 Matt “anti-DIPS” Cain

• 28 Players having greater respect for other

• 28 Do TV commentators pay any attention to the game?

• 27 Catcher Framing Skill, part WOWY

• 27 Phil schools Freakonomics

• 27 Do the Pittsburgh Pirates really want a salary cap?

• 27 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Dodgers

• 26 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Nationals

• 26 Mariners consortium

• 26 The greatest game ever pitched!

• 25 WOWY and catcher framing

• 25 Moneyball: one minute review

• 24 Moneypuck

• 23 Watching Moneyball with Bill James

• 23 Winnipeg Jets

• 23 “The Moneyball revolution from someone who helped it happen”

• 23 Sabermetrico: the world domination continues!

• 23 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: D’Backs

• 23 What’s good for local politics is not good for federal politics: Ron Paul v Gov Christie

• 23 Sports Economics research rankings

• 23 Sabermetric scorn for the triple crown?

• 22 Jason Whitlock and Bill Baer

• 22 Adjusted Plus/Minus

• 22 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Angels

• 22 Cy Bayes

• 22 Moneyball review from Poz

• 22 Changeup pitchers harder to hit

• 22 Ryan Howard: Elite averageness

• 22 Brian Burke’s team

• 21 Dose of reality

• 21 New Gold Glove rules

• 21 Ballad of Bill James

• 21 Talking pitching

• 21 Jose Bautista, linguist: “Take your nose out of the dictionary and watch the game!”

• 21 Catcher Framing Skill, part next

• 21 Do art collectors know art?

• 21 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Phillies

• 21 Mariano Rivera, LI, Fangraphs, Rally

• 20 FIP on the cover of SI ?!?

• 20 MVP 1987

• 20 UZR yapfest

• 20 Player safety? Better late than never

• 19 Marcel: the only truly worldwide forecasting system

• 19 Fans Scouting Report and the position-neutral aspect

• 19 Tennis/golf rankings… for pitchers!

• 19 Is where you play on the field conducive to better hitting performance?

• 19 Is where you hit in the lineup conducive to better performance?

• 18 Do hitters and pitchers perform better during the day or at night?

• 16 Bias discussion

• 16 Sabermetric coach

• 16 Do the Tigers have a 100% chance of making the playoffs?

• 16 Puck Luck

• 16 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Marlins

• 16 College bat impact

• 16 Born-again

• 15 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: A’s

• 15 Shelley Duncan

• 14 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Rangers

• 14 One punch

• 14 Markov 2: Gaussian Elimination

• 14 Game-set-match, or just points?

• 14 “Behind the Seams: The Stat Story” on MLB Network

• 13 Hilarious (inane) TV commentary

• 13 Ultimate in survivor bias

• 13 Chris Carpenter: money on the table?

• 13 Momentum is this inning’s reliever

• 13 Mike Cameron: sabermetric darling

• 13 Minor League data

• 13 Mariano: 599?  No, 641

• 13 Negro League Database

• 13 Draft Order and Major League Pitching Performance…

• 13 EA NHL 2012

• 12 On Defense: Subjective Data, Objectively Considered

• 12 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Astros

• 12 Tennis clock

• 12 Poz on WAR and pitcher wins

• 12 Cain v Shields, part 2

• 11 I cut the pie, you choose the slice

• 11 Out-of-synch PITCHf/x?

• 11 Does Vegas know how to set the total runs over/under line?

• 10 What happens to a pitcher’s HR rate year to year?

• 10 What happens to a pitcher’s BABIP year to year?

• 09 ESPN BABIP Video

• 09 One mph twist

• 09 Curveball as first pitch to start the game

• 09 Spread in talent

• 09 Distribution of wealth

• 09 Fans Scouting Report 2011: hotseat: Padres

• 08 iTunes baseball app

• 08 CC, efficient pitcher

• 08 Players take a stand, walk out

• 08 Only the nose knows

• 08 Does Phil Hughes know what to do when starting in an 0-2 count?

• 08 To Hippeaux

• 08 UZR bias by FB%

• 07 Death of “The Faster Times”

• 07 Does “value” mean “value to reaching the playoffs”?

• 07 What would happen if you had a team with no sluggers?

• 07 WAR glossary

• 07 Consistency value

• 07 Physics of baseball in the rain

• 07 Russian hockey team killed in plane crash

• 07 Where do umpires position themselves?

• 07 Does a jump in 2nd half team performance mean something for next year?

• 07 Ken Singleton and plate discipline

• 07 Strasburg 2010 v 2011

• 07 Reader Mail of the day: WPA fails as story stat?

• 06 What WAR is… what WAR is not

• 06 “Numbers Never Lie”

• 06 Bad statistics

• 06 Disincentive to fan riots

• 06 “WAR doesn’t work”

• 06 Legal ruling on the Phillies/Marlins HR/interference call

• 06 Pitcher wins

• 05 Re-examining the sac bunt by a pitcher with 1 out and runners on 1st and 3rd

• 05 What’s up with the interference call in Florida?

• 02 Schilling and Larkin on WAR

• 02 Correlation of hitting metrics

• 01 This week in insane celebration: pointing to God