A lot of great stuff this week online from a baseball stat and sabermetric perspective. I don’t want to take too much time building it up, so I will just get right into the details.
The Great Clutch Project
I mentioned this a few weeks ago, concerning Tom Tango asking fans to join him in a battle [...]
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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.
The way this page works is you can put in [...]
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There are not many things more beautiful to me than a ballpark open for the first time in the spring, or a perfectly executed hit and run, or a majestic homerun that clears a park. I can always find beauty in the simplest of forms at a baseball game, and there are not many things [...]
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Since the first Baseball Abstract was published some 30 years ago, Bill James has been labeled a lot of things: revolutionary, heretic, genius, fraud, etc. His analysis and research has been praised and trashed at the same time. His work has been studied and acutely used by some big league clubs, and laughed at by [...]
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On September 11, I attended the Astros-Cubs game here in Houston that the Astros won 5-4 in 11 innings thanks to a Luke Scott walk-off triple off of Ryan Dempster. During games, as is my custom, I will usually try to pick up on some interesting trend, or notice something I have never seen before, [...]
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