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2012

March, 2012

• 31 Wow, this Senator thinks that his actions are justified and correct?

• 31 Dewan responds

• 31 If we can’t win over Allen Barra, who can we win over?

• 30 Jam Expectancy (roller derby!)

• 30 Most critical at bat in MLB history

• 30 What are the chances that these deaths are a coincidence?

• 30 SABR Analytics presentations, with audio

• 30 Poz: minus SI, plus USA Today/MLBAM

• 30 Millsy

• 30 Canada kills tradition in favor of progress: RIP Penny

• 29 Psst… wanna work at Baseball Prospectus?

• 29 Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) with Playing Cards

• 29 Grady Fuson

• 29 This week in sexism: Augusta

• 29 What an a***holish thing to say…

• 29 Was GZ beaten to a bloody pulp?

• 28 Diary of your “rolling the dice”: does anyone give a f-ck (*)?

• 28 Individual Mandate Severability

• 28 Who is Jeremy Lin?  He’s this guy.

• 28 Ron Fagin

• 28 Ownership changes

• 27 R.A. Dickey

• 27 PITCHf/x sim scores

• 27 What are the preconditions necessary for self-defense to exist?

• 27 Strikeouts and Walk spring numbers matter?

• 27 Community Playing Time Forecasts 2012: Ballots are now open!

• 27 Are fly ball pitchers at a disadvantage in a hitters park, especially one with a high HR factor?

• 26 Why do great players have the most fragile of egos?

• 26 Forecasting team valuations

• 26 International draft issues

• 26 How stable is a player’s talent, year-to-year?

• 25 “I knew Tiger Woods would finally win!”—Tangotiger

• 25 Fielding Bible 3: Methodologies

• 25 Shooting pitchers in a barrel…

• 24 Sandusky, 1998

• 24 Please read this story and tell me what you think…

• 23 Bill James Tracers: On Bill James

• 23 Start v Relief: Max

• 23 Derek Jeter: greatest career for a player at the SS position?

• 23 Blast from the past: UZR

• 23 Fielding vectors and times

• 22 Why I would never carry a gun…

• 22 Negro Leagues

• 22 Blog software

• 22 Is there a Redsox/Yankee variable in bullpen-to-starter moves?

• 22 SoccerXY

• 22 WOWY on The Shift

• 21 Three stages of behavioural evolution

• 21 Helmet History

• 21 “Officer Anthony Colicchio”, Renaissance Man

• 21 Even-odd correlations

• 21 Removing the Individual Mandate

• 21 Does Jered Weaver leverage his home park in the day time?

• 21 Blogger Chass on the NY Times reporting of the Picard/Mets case

• 21 Doug Glanville, saberist (plus fielding alignments)

• 21 OPS Fear Chamber

• 20 Position-switchers: going the other way

• 20 Evolution of Adrian Gonzalez, or adapting from Petco to Fenway?

• 20 Amazon Referral System

• 20 Foo Fighters contract rider

• 20 Hall of “Very Good”

• 20 She’s not racist either…

• 20 Six-man brawl to open the game

• 19 Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) and Game Theory

• 19 How much should government (i.e. via taxes) subsidize college education?

• 19 SABR Analytics wrap-up

• 19 Protecting Children’s ears, more important than to protect their lives, minds, and eyes?

• 19 After just getting done with Linsanity and Tebowmania, what’s the next wave that a team will squash?

• 19 Stats AND Scouts

• 19 Sabermetric broadcaster

• 18 Introducing The Razors

• 17 Hank Haney’s new book about Tiger

• 17 Tango’s Lab: Playing Time Percentiles (preliminary)

• 17 Poll: What’s your breakeven for 2-for-1 STARTING PITCHER trades?

• 16 Saskatchewan Caribou

• 16 No, really, this time, Jeremy Hellickson will be the guy who will buck the BABIP-trend

• 16 Impact of the length of a match on the home-site advantage

• 16 Defending Mitt, and other events of the day

• 16 Extra Innings Excerpt

• 16 Nick Leyva

• 15 Itchy and Scratchy Marathon

• 15 Scouting plays

• 15 Dear David and Sean:

• 15 Vetting power of journalists

• 15 Women-only thread

• 15 High-uncertainty teams

• 15 “My problem is that the people evaluating statistics in sports are not experts in statistics.”

• 15 DH, again

• 15 Is it bragging if you can back it up?

• 15 Abusing z-scores

• 15 Axe bat

• 14 Impact of hitters who switch home parks

• 14 Encroaching on your competitor’s space

• 14 David Samson

• 14 Read Mail of the day: When does a low correlation tells you ALOT?

• 14 Rick Peterson

• 14 Taking the jibber-jabber out of OPS

• 13 RB Draft evaluation

• 13 LI v boLI

• 13 Top Sports doctor can’t prove the impact of curveballs on youngsters one way or the other

• 13 If your mother was a food critic…

• 13 False research

• 13 And these people “run” our country? Are you kidding me?

• 12 Bloomberg’s Sports Pitch Review

• 12 Moving a young veteran over for an unproven prospect

• 12 Fantasy 2012

• 11 Best shootout goal where skater stays in lane

• 11 People, not stats

• 11 How much can a manager leverage speed and OBP with his lineup?

• 11 Where do people come up with this garbage?

• 11 Ian Kinsler is divisive?

• 10 Taiwanese Animation Video Of The Week

• 10 What effect does batter/pitcher familiarity have on performance?

• 10 Why Pecota is not deadly accurate…

• 10 Visual Marcels

• 10 Poll: What’s your breakeven for 2-for-1 trades?

• 10 Clutch: Jeter v ARod

• 10 Mike Fast

• 10 wBABIP: why 2B = 3B?

• 09 Holster that weapon?

• 09 Forecast differences: hitters

• 09 Joe Rogan: sabermetric-enlightener?

• 09 Mound visit “tells”

• 09 Catcher WOWY

• 09 Rivera is twice (thrice?) the reliever of everyone else

• 09 Redsox fielding metric on Youkilis

• 09 Pitchers switching roles

• 09 “If you can play, you can play”

• 08 Weight gain and loss

• 08 WAR for leadoff hitters (and basketball players)

• 08 How many years out can you possibly make a forecast?

• 08 Pitch speed, injury, aging, and changing roles…

• 08 Forecasting Playing Time - mini-challenge

• 07 Forecasting Mailbag

• 06 Do pitchers who are hurting allow a higher BABIP?

• 06 Companies that have stopping advertising on Limbaugh’s program…

• 05 Are umpires behind the decreased run environment?

• 05 MLBAM: Socially awkward or active?

• 05 Evaluating teachers

• 05 Cherry picking quiz…

• 05 Marcel 2012

• 05 MIT Sloan Conference

• 04 Great life lesson: perspective and diversify

• 04 Bayes Theorem Illustrated

• 04 Dave Berri will respond to ALL critics (not just those in academia)

• 04 UZR for basketball

• 03 Worst sports dad of the year?

• 03 Howard Stern called it: Piers Morgan hits rock bottom

• 03 Bill Simmons interviews Bill James

• 02 Effect of a 2-3 system compared to a 2-2-1 system

• 02 Golf shot-by-shot data

• 02 Mrs. Dirk Hayhurst

• 02 Do teams need sabermetrics?

• 02 Fuzzy Math and politicians

• 02 Clipper Darrell

• 01 Catcher aging and Yadier Molina

• 01 Marcel 2012

• 01 A quiz about injuries and future performance…

• 01 Can we stop trying to make a distinction between doing something racist and being a racist?

• 01 Team Health Reports