Walk Like a Sabermetrician

The ease of figuring OPS given OBA and SLG, along with the fact that the metrics are reasonably well-accepted by the general baseball commun...

I wrote a series of posts about OPS four years ago entitled " Beating a Dead Horse ". Among serious sabermetricians, there is ...

OPS OPS = OBA + SLG = (H + W)/(AB + W) + TB/AB = ((H+W)*AB + TB*(AB + W))/(AB*(AB + W)) I believe the technical term for that is gobbled...

This post is mathematical in nature and wholly unoriginal. All it does is walk through the algebraic relationships between BA, OBA, SLG and...

The 2011 Indians were not expected to do much; even within the organization, 2011 was likely viewed as a transitional year, with the goal of...

2011 was the first season for Greg Beals as OSU coach, replacing the retired Bob Todd who served in that role from 1988-2010. It is obvious...

Anyone can throw together a spreadsheet and declare that they have a ranking system for teams. It’s not particularly hard to construct a re...

A couple of caveats apply to everything that follows in this post. The first is that there are no park adjustments anywhere. There's obv...