Southeast Invitational: Preseason best and worst value pick predictions

In another one of my posts that will interest exactly nine other people, I plan to look at the recent 10-team fantasy baseball draft in which I participated on Monday, March 24 and make my predictions as to who will be the picks that give each team the most value over the 2008 season as [...]

Ultimate 2007 Batting Order

Using a relatively new tool on BaseballReference.com known as the Batting Order Outcomes, I thought it might be fun to go back and look at last season and construct the ultimate lineup, spots 1-8, using each team’s production in each of those spots as our data.
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Fun Features on Fangraphs

As you know, I pimp the site Fangraphs on this blog a lot. It has a ton of information that is tremendously difficult to find elsewhere, as well as up-to-date, daily archives of Win Probability Added and Leverage Index (the metric created by Tom Tango measuring a player’s performance and how it relates to his [...]

Who can beat my two aces?

I work at a place that often gets involved in the political arena, specifically policy recommendation and research, so times like these are often quite entertaining and quite busy. My past couple of weeks have been spent working on plans for various presidential candidates we have invited to come and also hosting an event for [...]