One of my favorite places to kill some time when the wife lets me is a site that has been around for a while called Fan Graphs. Fan Graphs is stocked full with stats and projections and blog entries and searchable tools, but the best part about the site is the statistic they utilize called [...]
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So the sudden demotion of Brad Lidge after one save opportunity and one case of mop-up duty this season got me thinking about the long, long, term affects of Lidge and other closers who have given up walk-off homeruns in critical or season/series-altering situations.
A lot has been made of the “psychological” affect a hit or [...]
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I believe there are a few places you can find this, or you can do the research yourself at retrosheet.org, but I stumbled across a site that calculates the Win Expectancy Formula using a sample size of every game from 1977 to 2006. I found the page at a site called Walk Off Balk and [...]
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When it gets to be the end of September or beginning of October, you start to see a lot of papers and media outlets grade players and teams from the previous year based on how they performed the past six months. What I am going to do in this exercise is VERY briefly give a [...]
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