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A UZR-less 2012
If you visit FanGraphs or Baseball-Reference during the baseball season, it's tough to avoid exposure to defensive statistics like UZR, DRS or TZ. They feature prominently on individual player pages and leaderboards. Their existence is mostly beneficial, especially in the long term. A look at the...
2011 Saber Porn Of The Year
It's mid-November, the time of year when the BBWAA hands out its end-of-season awards, and countless columns about the meaning of the word "valuable" are composed. It's also time for the second annual voting on the Moneyballs Award For Achievement In Sabermetric Porn. Last year's runaway winner was...
More On Jonah Lehrer's Misguided Foray Into Sports Journalism
"Humans tend to filter the world to confirm what we already believe." —Jonah Lehrer. That quote is from Jonah Lehrer's appearance on the Colbert Report in May 2009 when he was promoting How We Decide, a well-regarded book on human decision-making as informed by his background in neuroscience. It's...
Jim Bowden Is A Sabermagician
Jim Bowden of ESPN posted his "Simple Stats To Evaluate Teams, Players". Among them is OPSBIs -- that's OPS + RBI. The OPSBIs leaderboard looks curiously like the OPS leaderboard. I wonder why?I've come up with some relevant stats of my own:ERABC -- ERA + level of literacyISOMG -- ISO + OMG...
The Absurdity of the Hold Statistic
In yesterday's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals closer Drew Storen had what could only be described as a meltdown appearance. If not for the triage work of Todd Coffey, Sean Burnett and Henry Rodriguez, as well as a five-run 11th courtesy of a Rick Ankiel sacks-juiced...
SnakePit Statistics 1.0.3: Fielding and Miscellaneous
In previous installments, we've covered hitting and pitching statistics. We finish off the series by taking a look at fielding numbers, and also other stats that are often used to show player performance - in particular, WAR (Wins Above Replacement). As before, we may refer to some principles...
Sandy Alderson: "Stolen Bases Are A Footnote"
Sandy Alderson was interviewed at a charity event last night by Ed Randall of Fans For The Cure, a prostate cancer awareness organization. David Lennon of Newsday shared some of Alderson's one-liners. Here is one: I'll ignore Lennon's Reyes editorial for now and instead focus on the stolen base...
What is LOB%?
Hello again er'body! I've just finished my second installment of the Saber Primer video series, this one entitled: "LOB%: The Luck Dragons, Part 1." If you have any questions about LOB% or the stats we use here on the site, head over to the Sabermetrics Library -- or, if you're feeling frisky,...
What is FIP?
As part of the budding Sabermetrics Primer month, I've begun a video series aimed at explaining a variety sabermetric principles and statistics. The first is FIP: A New ERA, feature below. Watch it and let me know what you think! Also, tell me what other videos you would like to see. Enjoy!
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Four
If Chris Young is indeed signed, the Mets would be represented by five of the eight Ivy League schools: Harvard -- Sandy Alderson, Paul DePodesta Dartmouth -- Sandy Alderson Princeton -- Chris Young Columbia -- Gary Cohen Yale -- Ron Darling To carry the flag for Penn, Mark DeRosa or the retired...
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