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2012

November, 2012

• 30 Unlimited ballot

• 30 Cellular/Mobile phone carrier quality

• 30 Michael Weiner: HOF morality clause, and George Steinbrenner

• 29 Poz on PED

• 29 “We’ve sacrificed our bodies. It’s the way we made our living.”—Barry Bonds

• 29 This week in silly golf attire

• 29 Are the Forbes numbers worse than useless?

• 28 NHL Board of Governors dissension

• 28 Writers who did NOT vote for Tim Raines

• 28 Holy Writers: one down, 199 to go

• 28 Carlos Ruiz

• 28 Distribution of talent between AL and NL, through the lens of SP and RP

• 28 NHL recap

• 28 Stephen Strasburg and the Hardball Times Annual

• 28 Marvin Miller on the fans’ non-rights to players

• 27 Call for Abstracts: 2013 PITCHf/x Summit @ SABR Analytics Conference

• 27 Time Value of Money

• 27 Turning an 8 million $ loss into an 8 million $ gain

• 27 Federal Mediator for NHL Guy Serota: shady social media

• 27 Support the NHL owners?

• 27 Crying wolf: Will this be the last NHL lockout?

• 27 Cliff Lee v Cole Hamels: Something in the air tonight, oh lord

• 26 Longoria extension

• 26 Sabermetric view of Ballparks

• 26 Trade Value Rankings

• 26 How to avoid a one million dollar fine

• 25 Scheduling Theory

• 25 Why was the BBWAA not compensated by MLB Network?

• 25 Why have the draft, if teams are allocated draft money?  Auction!

• 24 I’d love to hear the raw honesty from the NHL owners as well

• 24 Decertification

• 23 Is Fehr going to fine Hamrlik 1 million dollars?

• 23 Tom Boswell on Don Fehr

• 23 Proskauer Rose’s Bob Batterman

• 23 A rule is a rule is NOT a rule?

• 23 Cutter v Fastball

• 21 Brewers-driven medical symposium

• 21 NHLPA proposal: Fehr’s letter

• 21 Mark Buehrle and the no-trade provision

• 21 Morning Joe understands probability

• 21 Dirk Hayhurst on MLB Network

• 21 Kevin Appier

• 21 Ichiro

• 21 How big is the gap between SP and RP?

• 21 Bias in MVP

• 21 Bettman admits to initial lowball to get to 50/50

• 20 Will NHL move more toward MLB for young player contracts, and is Donald Fehr ok with that?

• 20 Design a uniform

• 20 Would Tim Tebow be better in the CFL?

• 20 Quality of competition in each league

• 20 David Cone, saberist

• 19 Doug Pappas Wayback

• 19 Should you deploy your money in a boom-or-bust cycle?

• 19 Poll: Reasonable NHL solution: earn the minimum until a deal is settled

• 19 Another crazy NHL solution: prisoner’s dilemna + pie-cutting

• 18 Good, Bad, Ugly: Murray Chass

• 16 Luck and skill untangled

• 16 Media v Saberist: Word v Excel

• 16 More than one way to WAR a cat

• 16 Imagining a world without Miguel Cabrera

• 16 NHL solution: floor and ceiling for the percent split

• 16 Hardball Times Annual - 2013

• 16 CFL at Olympic Stadium

• 15 Single-number fallacy

• 15 Infinity and beyond

• 15 Most Outstanding Player Leaderboard

• 15 Joe Niekro teaching a kid the knuckler

• 15 Team-Swap: Trade an entire franchise, including owners?

• 15 I can think like a BBWAA voter

• 15 Derrick Goold’s path toward becoming a saberist?

• 15 Frequnetists v Bayesians

• 14 Everything you wanted to know about the MLB revenue-sharing system, but didn’t even know how to ask

• 14 Eric Post speaks

• 14 Blockbuster deals

• 14 Can you make the case that Mike Trout was not one of the 10 best performers in the AL this year?

• 14 What happen if you attempt a shot on your own basket?

• 13 Raines30.com updates

• 13 Saber talk with Rally

• 13 Leaderboard Linking

• 13 Jose Molina, pitch-framer

• 13 Meet a SABR member

• 13 Most dramatic games of the year

• 13 Is it possible to have a tie-breaking rule that is somehow worse than ending the game tied?

• 12 BBWAA makes ballots available

• 12 How would the BBWAA react if there was only one MVP award to hand out?

• 12 Today in inertial reasoning: why is rookie eligibility based on at bats, and not plate appearances?

• 12 Why do NHL owners insist on the max five-year contracts?

• 12 This week in inertial reasoning

• 11 Cal Tech physics professor delivers presentation on final day of meetings

• 11 Which polling firm is the best?  Not Gallup!

• 10 Hall of Stats

• 09 Fehr’s memo to the players

• 09 Web Editor for Raines30.com

• 09 About face: when you are on the wrong side of history, simply don’t stand in history’s way

• 09 Why are polls so inaccurate?

• 09 High success rate stealing AND more attempts?

• 09 Do Dallas cheerleaders reveal too much skin?

• 09 How did Princeton Election Consortium do state-by-state?

• 09 How did Nate Silver do state-by-state? Take Two

• 08 Did Nate Silver really expect to hit on all 50 states?

• 08 This week in silly golf rules

• 07 How did Nate Silver do state-by-state?

• 07 Can you devise a system where more people vote?

• 07 Fans don’t want to think about the money

• 07 Is MLB playoff format a necessary evil?

• 07 Revisiting past forecasts

• 07 Median v Average: Nate v Princeton Election Consortium

• 06 Backwards starters

• 06 Poll: In today’s election, this is how I did (or would have) voted:

• 06 Pedro on leaving the Redsox

• 05 Penny effects

• 05 Above the belt

• 05 Evolving bullpen usage

• 05 Same-handed team

• 05 Tommy John Surgeries: A More Complete List

• 04 Documenting the criticisms of Nate Silver

• 02 Inertial reasoning

• 01 Where is JCP&L in NJ?

• 01 Are political commentators similar to sports commentators?

• 01 Hurricane Sandy