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Baseball Statistics Pornography

Mach5 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:48:11 -0800

Mariano's Gonna Cut You, and other stat-and-graph filled baseball analysis from Beyond the Boxscore. via the excellent Yankees blog at LoHud. 10 days to opening day! * Unless you are a Braves/Phillies fan.

Silver's Picks for the Silver Screen

jonp72 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:34:51 -0800

He predicted a losing season for the White Sox in 2007 and foresaw that the Tampa Bay Rays would be the best team in the American League in 2008, although he wrongly predicted that the Rays would win the World Series. He also predicted Obama's 6-point victory over McCain. Now the stats guru Nate Silver is picking the Oscar winners and predicting an upset win for Taraji P. Henson in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Put away your asterisks

mrgrimm — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:16:55 -0800

Steroids, "Other Drugs," and Baseball: a Voice of Scepticism on the Impact of Steroids on Major League Baseball. Eric Walker suggests a "juiced" ball made much more of an effect than PEDs.

Baseball Stat of the Day Blog

Plutor — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:54:27 -0800

What's the fewest number of pitches pitched in a complete game? How many times has a relieving pitcher been awarded a win without even facing a batter? How many different pitchers has Julio Franco faced? What's the greatest number of hits in a game where all of them are home runs? Who's hit the most grand slams in the ninth or extra innings? These questions and many (many) more at Baseball-reference.com's fantastic Stat of the Day blog.

Money, Derek Jeter, Nail Clippings & Apple Pie: Harvard's WorklifeWizard

yellowcandy — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:22:05 -0800

The Harvard University Worklife Wizard , created by an international team of journalists, economists, and statisticians, is Barbara Ehrenreich's wet dream. It's also a fantastic resource that has flown pretty much under everyone's radar. The Worklife Survey drives the constantly-revised, constantly-refined Salary Comparison Tool, which is always hungry for more data about employment from around the world. And when they say they want data from everyone, they mean it-- there's even a VIP Salary Checker that pits the wages of the Yankees against those of the Red Sox. (Plus if you take the survey, you can apparently earn a chance to win a trip to South Africa). Personally, I love the Workplace Horror Stories (and there's a competition there too). I can't look at a nail clipper the same way now.

Baseball win probabilities based on game situation

ibmcginty — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:45:34 -0800

Baseball nerd fun: Type in which team's at bat, how many outs, which inning, how many on base, and the Win Expectancy Finder will spit out the likelihood the team wins, based on actual game data from the periods 2000-2004, 1991-1998, and 1979-1990.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame...(Go Go Sox)

?! — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:26:46 -0800

In case you forgot here's the lineup for the St. Louis Wolves: 1b:Who; 2b:What; 3b:I Don't Know; ss:I Don't Give a Damn; lf:Why; cf:Because; rf:Yesterday; p:Tomorrrow; c:Today

Underestimating the Fog

ericbop — Fri, 27 May 2005 10:01:25 -0800

(As any Mets geek might say when talking to Mike & the Mad Dog: First time [MeFi] poster, long time reader)
Underestimating the Fog...No, not crochety ol' McNamara's take on the situation in Iraq. Rather, it's an astonishing (if only partial) recanting [.pdf] by the patron saint of statheads, seamheads, and rotogeeks everywhere, Bill James. Like his namesake, James is a radical empiricist, the Jedi master who defined saber metrics (his coinage) as "the search for objective knowledge about baseball." Over the past several decades, James' influence has been enormous. After Michael Lewis famously detailed the saber-success of Billy Beane's Oakland A's, Sabermetric-leaning analysts have made their way into the scouting ranks and GM's offices of a growing number of major league ball clubs. From the halls of academia [.pdf] to newspapers and Cable personalities, even the NFL and N B A are on board!