As of today, I will also be blogging about the Astros on www.fangraphs.com. I wrote about Fangraphs a few weeks ago as one of my obsessions and favorite places to play around online, and I highly recommend you check it out; not just the Astros page, but the whole site.
The Astros blog (done from the Win Probability Added perspective) can be found at http://www.fangraphs.com/astros/. Bookmark it and read it when you can.
As of now, I plan to try and post an entry after each series to analyze how things shook out for the ‘Stros and how well they performed in the situations that would have either won or lost them the games. My plan is to post the first of those a day or so after the Rockies series is over.
If you are not familiar with Win Probablity or Leverage Index, don’t worry! Click on this link to the representative Cardinals blog on Fangraphs and scroll down until you see “What is WPA?” on the right side. Erik, the blogger, has linked to a number of great articles and references you can review for more information on WPA and LI.
So check it out whenever you can. I will still be posting on this site at the same pace (hopefully), but will make this one more about baseball in general and the Fangraphs blog about the Astros.
Ryan
Super dude…I’m impressed, man. If you keep this up, you could quit your day job.