THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2012

February, 2012

• 29 Play-in game is a go

• 29 Grandfathered maple bat rule

• 28 The end of fighting in hockey?

• 28 GOP thread: make their mother’s case

• 28 Value of knowing performance from 4 years ago?

• 28 Worst sequels of great movies

• 28 Gladwell v Bloggers: 1% v 99%

• 27 Inside the NBA union

• 27 McCarthy: get groundballs

• 26 Platooning: but not by hand

• 26 This week in golf-inspired rules: lost by a hair

• 26 Ryan Zimmerman

• 26 Leveraging Strasburg

• 26 Should ERA+ and ERA- adjust for the role of the pitcher?

• 26 Mario Malkin Perreault

• 24 Catcher impact on pitcher RA9 (or ERA)

• 24 How much did Vegas value Ryan Braun for 2012?

• 24 Spread in fielding: how much is there?

• 24 Ryan Braun: how many drug tests?

• 23 What is a “major upset”?

• 23 Leveraged Index… for contracts

• 23 Ode to Pitcher Wins

• 23 Mike Cameron v Jim Rice: context

• 22 Would you cut to a regularly scheduled show, if the main event ran long?

• 22 Is Aroldis Chapman Nolan Ryan?

• 22 Persistency of park factors on individuals

• 22 How much should minor leaguers make?

• 20 MLB 2012 Odds: BetOnline

• 20 Two players have the same stats: one is much younger.  Which one will be better next year?

• 20 Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich

• 20 Do batters and pitchers who switch teams and/or leagues fare better or worse?

• 19 Knuckleball pitchers: all of them

• 19 Paper on predicting pitches (to be presented at Sloan)

• 18 Unintentional intentional walks

• 18 Career W/L record… for position players

• 17 When is it a partnership and when is it a competition?

• 17 Testing catcher framing numbers

• 17 Not everything you learn in college is true (duh)...

• 17 It is human nature to attach too much significance to “consistency…”

• 17 Behavioural science, and predicting pregnancies

• 17 Gary Carter’s final hit

• 16 espnW’s sabermetric primer

• 16 If GWRBI is a crappy stat, why isn’t pitcher wins also crappy?

• 16 Why did it take so long to invent these things?

• 15 Presumption of randomness is not always what we want to test

• 15 With women like these, who needs enemies?

• 15 Game theory example

• 14 Price of a win

• 14 Is Tiger Woods like Team Canada (in hockey)?

• 14 Dustin Brown draws penalties

• 14 Blast From the Past: Sim Scores

• 13 Fielding Bible, Vol 3

• 13 Eyewitness testimony and wrongful convictions

• 13 Component-Marcel

• 13 Good article, lousy title…

• 12 Dan Kantrovitz, ex-player, now scouting director of Cards

• 12 BPI college rankings

• 12 “Official” is better?

• 12 Whitney Houston

• 12 NHL Injury Dataset

• 11 Why do players get crappy caps?

• 11 Clutch analogy

• 11 Who is Jeremy Lin?

• 10 Jose Molina

• 10 Reader Mail of the Day: Why do we need X years of fielding data?  And what about outliers?

• 10 Performance through the ages

• 10 Hero of the month: Brittney Baxter

• 10 Win expectancy charts used in football… in 1983!

• 10 Dwight Evans

• 09 Psst… wanna intern in Canada?

• 09 Moneyball at Villanova

• 08 MGL: Today on Clubhouse Confidential

• 08 New PECOTA

• 08 Expos breathing

• 08 Batman, the webslinger?

• 08 How much is winning a Cy Young worth to a young pitcher?

• 07 When to purposefully lose the lead

• 07 The will of the people?

• 07 For Your Soul

• 07 Golfers “playing through”

• 07 Bronx Parking

• 07 Pitch Diversity Index

• 07 When is a life entity considered a person?

• 06 Position-switchers

• 06 Interview with Howard Baldwin

• 06 Could this ad run in the U.S.?

• 06 Forecaster’s Challenge: 2012?

• 05 Super Simple Baseball Game

• 05 Flash mob for a SuperBowl commercial

• 05 Is Nate Silver alot more certain than he lets on?

• 05 Complete PITCHf/x classification

• 04 Bill James Baseball IQ app

• 04 Turbo Tax: the Netflix of tax software?

• 04 I stumbled on a great web site

• 03 Werth: How long can a non-CF stay in CF?

• 03 Illusion of numbers

• 03 Danks or Garza?  ToMAYto, ToMAHto?

• 03 Best Player not on Chain Game

• 03 Politicians using baseball players to drum up their own profile

• 03 Aasif Mavi and The Daily Show

• 03 Susan G. Komen

• 02 Casey Kotchman line

• 02 Greinke’s many curveballs

• 02 Verducci Year After Effect: Get over yourself, goodbye

• 02 Tango, Jr.

• 01 Knowing enough about numbers to be dangerous

• 01 Tempered Yu Forecast

• 01 Is the price of “security” really worth it?

• 01 Are relievers being used optimally, compared to 1980?

• 01 Injury database?