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So What is the Deal with Wins Above Replacement? Or, WAR, What is it Good For? A (Relatively) Brief Primer Using the Current Royals' Leaderboard
This is an adaption of the current (as of 5/20/2009) Royals' WAR leaderboard for position players at FanGraphs: Name Batting Fielding Replacement Positional RAR...
So What Are K/9, BB/9, and K/BB Anyway?
Continuing with the series on explaining useful statistics as requested in the excellent For All the Dummies post, this entry looks at three key pitching statistics that both scouting and statistical ...
So what are OBP/SLG/OPS/wOBA anyway?
On the heels of the seminal For All The Dummies fanpost and the excellent contributions on FIP and statistical education in general, I thought I'd do my part by explainin...
Attention Aspiring Nerdlings: Some introductory sabermetric links
In an earlier post, FretFriendly expressed some concern about the somewhat technical nature of some discussions that use sabermetric concepts, and other commenters on this post agreed. I'm...
So What is FIP Anyway?
As discussed in the recent and most excellent For All the Dummies post, it appears that one reason some readers resist using statistics in evaluating baseball players is that the discus...
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