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Baseball and Pythagoras; or, Finger Painting the Word Picture by Numbers
The Right off the Bat (ROTB) project was angled for the hallowed halls of Cooperstown this week. Since we have rescheduled for 2019, permit me (Evander), in this our 601st blog and with little else to do but count them, … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Website, T20 Cricket, Test Cricket
Tagged analytics, BABIP, Baseball Prospectus, Beadle's Dime Base-ball Player, Bill James, Bob Feller, Boston Red Sox, CBA, Chicago Black Sox scandal, contact rate, DraftKing, Driveline Baseball, DRS, ERA+, EVA, exit velocity, FB%, FIELDf/x, gambling, Henry Chadwick, Hot Stove League, ICC, ISO, JAWS, Joe Nuxhall, launch angle, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball Players Association, National Baseball Hall of Fame, PECOTA projections, pitch tunneling, Reaction Analysis, Sabermetrics, Scoring Efficiency (SE), Scoring Load (SC%), secondary average, spin rate (SR), Statcast, Steve Pearce, UZR, wins above replacement, World Series
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(Im)probabilities
No one is going to confuse Martin and me with Theo Epstein or Bill James. Truthfully, the term Sabermetrics largely gets nary a nod in Right Off the Bat. Why? It all goes back to “leet” childhood. [“Feed-in”]…I remember practically flunking … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Website
Tagged Bill James, Bobby Thomson, Bucky Dent, contact rate, DIPS, exit velocity, FIELDf/x, ISO, Jackie Robinson, JAWS, launch angle, line-drive rate, Literature, OPS, Reaction Analysis, Reggie Jackson, Sabermetrics, Scoring Efficiency (SE), Scoring Load (SC%), Statcast, Theo Epstein, Ultimate Base Running (UBR), UZR, WAR, WARP, WHIP, Whitey Ford, WRC
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