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2011

January, 2011

• 31 Someone who forecasts BEFORE something happens? It’s true!

• 31 Neyer leaving ESPN… and joins SBNation

• 31 Cap Anson - all-time great?

• 31 “SABR is not sabermetrics”

• 31 More R

• 31 Customizable Heat Maps

• 30 Colts 2011 cheerleader candidates

• 30 Breathless claims of new home field advantage discoveries?  Take a deep breath because…

• 30 ” ‘Hubris’, my friend, is sneering at regression to the mean”

• 29 What you throw influences your BABIP

• 29 Who are the best and worst baserunners?

• 29 Baseball Puzzles

• 29 Andrew Gelman on Pete Palmer

• 29 Doomed to repeat history

• 29 Regressing observed platoon splits

• 29 Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch

• 28 Trivia of the day, with a bonus f.you to Pitching wins

• 28 How to calculate BABIP

• 28 Box score statistics are the RBIs of basketball

• 28 How much home field advantage do we want?

• 28 Math confirms two greatest World Series were 1975 and 1991

• 28 Rating the 2010 projections once again

• 27 Dealing with commenters

• 27 Georgia College Football made over 50MM$?

• 27 Goodbye ERA

• 27 Batting Order for Redsox 2011

• 27 BR.com Play Index

• 27 More walks-for-singles swap

• 27 Sign Vlad to limit Abreu?

• 27 Testing SIERA

• 26 Joba: starter or reliever?

• 26 Win Probability: pre-allocation method

• 26 Why do teams overpay for relievers?

• 26 Reader post of the day: spread in talent

• 26 Juan Pierre: I and we were wrong

• 25 Fangraphs Library

• 25 Poz for the HOF?

• 25 All About Voros

• 25 Home-site advantage in all sports

• 25 Why not have mercy rules?

• 24 Cubs 2011 lineup by The Book

• 24 Ensberg on Satellite Radio

• 24 Instant runoff Oscars

• 24 Talent or Timing?  Via Cain v Shields

• 24 Fourth Out

• 22 WOWY Scandanavia

• 21 Capuano f/x

• 21 Nick Punto

• 21 Budgets

• 21 Top 10 Nonpitcher prospects according to Oliver

• 20 Kindling The Book

• 20 More DH and fielding

• 20 Streakiness

• 20 MLBPA: be scared… be very very scared

• 20 Which reporter gets the most scoops?

• 20 Selig’s search for an executive

• 20 All about the Holy Writers

• 20 Randomness of plus/minus

• 20 Reader Mail of the Day: Financial amateurs

• 19 Science Hall of Fame

• 19 “Block the lock”

• 19 Voiding contracts

• 19 Trade Trees

• 19 Almost Padres Tim Raines

• 19 Soriano F/X

• 19 Do relievers who win the lottery need to share their money?

• 18 Park construction history in the NFL

• 18 Ricky Gervais

• 18 Are byes good… or bad?

• 18 James Player Rater 1994

• 18 Gil Meche

• 18 SaberLibrary suggestions?

• 18 WPA story at ESPN

• 18 Batter Order philosophy… from a century ago

• 18 Making minor leagues stronger

• 17 LOB% video

• 16 NFL and the uniform police

• 15 Nice little article about Bayesian probablity and other related things

• 15 Power Balance wristbands and when smart people say dumb things…

• 14 Computers taking over

• 14 Super 2 date for 2010

• 14 More opening vault from Jeff: Marcels

• 14 Bobby Jenks v Kyle Farnsworth

• 14 UZR v Fans, via Coors

• 13 Forecasters Challenge 2011 - Preliminary Lineup

• 13 Fangraphs Fan forecasts

• 13 Batter-pitcher matchup adjustments

• 13 Tennis markov code

• 13 Channeling your inner Leverage Index

• 12 Hidden Game of Baseball

• 12 If you win the lottery, are you a millionaire?

• 12 Roids v Greenies

• 12 The ol’ A+B worse than C trick

• 12 The Extra 2%

• 11 Minor League Splits Database

• 11 WOWY in Hockey

• 11 Rays: acquire pieces, flip them, don’t go for free agency

• 11 Player-mascots

• 11 Reviewing Bill James minor league forecasts 1993-1995

• 10 Minor league farm value

• 10 FIP video

• 10 The Negotiator

• 10 Stinkin’ thinkin’ is not just for addicts

• 10 Why opinions without evidence DON’T matter

• 09 Keith Olbermann

• 09 Golf and its one million referees

• 07 Baseball Idol

• 07 Minor League translations

• 07 Catcher defense, 2010

• 07 Reader mail of the day: fielding WAR for DH?

• 07 Owning up to bad forecasts

• 07 The Last Psychiatrist

• 06 Elect-2 / Elect-3

• 06 Writer’s article: admits he’s gay. Non-story to me. Wouldn’t this best be done as a 3-word tweet?

• 06 Winter Classic: New Year’s Day, or New Year’s Eve?

• 06 Hall of Orwell

• 06 What to do with the n-word in books?

• 06 Rebounds and putouts

• 06 Andrew Gelman on Statistics and Bill James

• 05 Lee Smith v Tim Raines

• 05 The Cruel and Compassionate Umpire

• 05 How many players should a BBWAA voter place on his Hall Of Fame ballot?

• 05 Barry Alomar v Roberto Larkin = Lou Trammell v Alan Whitaker

• 05 Sad news:Blyleven elected, will no longer be talked about ever again; Worse news:Morris not elected

• 05 Geoff Harcourt’s ID project

• 05 Another R primer

• 05 Trading for draft picks

• 05 My dozens of PED threads, hundreds of posts + thousands of rambling comments summarized by one post

• 05 Keep your fans close and your enemies closer

• 05 Bunts, bunts, bunts

• 04 Innocent v Guilt via Poz v Ed Price

• 04 Baseball Niners

• 04 Adrian Beltre and walk years

• 04 Average age of MLB ballparks

• 04 Hockey Goons

• 04 Holy Writer wants to be defrocked!

• 04 SpongeBob renewed!

• 04 wOBAcon

• 04 Dirk Hayhurst on Canadians

• 04 Swinging strikes, but no strikeouts?

• 04 Fans springs eternal

• 04 Best case FOR Jack Morris in HOF

• 04 Release points

• 04 Worst Playoff teams ever

• 03 Forecasters Challenge 2011 - Accepting entries

• 03 Fielding value and the HOF

• 03 Best Hockey Fights

• 03 Tim Raines love

• 03 MLE of groundball rates

• 03 Inflation in Fantasy Keeper Leagues

• 02 Another open letter to Murray Chass

• 02 Legislating rules of etiquette

• 01 The Best in hockey analysis 2010