Walk Like a Sabermetrician

Occasional commentary on baseball and sabermetrics

Monday, August 27, 2012

Sabermetric Generations

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Allow me the indulgence of going meta-sabermetric here. I don't really like doing that, as this is the point at which you are writing a...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Ballpark Thoughts

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My apologies to anyone who reads the title of this post and expects to read a discussion of some arcane aspect of estimating park factors. ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Standing Still

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2012 marked the second season of Greg Beals’ tenure as OSU baseball coach. It was not an encouraging season for the future of the program, ...
Monday, August 06, 2012

All Models Are Wrong

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The statistician George Box once wrote that “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.” Whether the context in which this was...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

On Run Distributions, pt. 7: W% Estimates

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There are a number of things one can do with a per game run distribution algorithm. One can look at the scoring patterns of teams to see if...
Monday, July 16, 2012

On Run Distributions, pt. 6: Series Review

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This post won’t introduce anything new--instead I’m just going to summarize what I’ve already done, giving you a full example of how to calc...
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Josh Edgin, #53*

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Last night, Josh Edgin made his major league debut for the Mets in their game against the Braves. Edgin is a 25 year old left handed pitche...
Monday, July 09, 2012

On Run Distributions, pt. 5: Estimating Variance

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So far, I’ve demonstrated only that the zero-modified negative binomial distribution (which I’m referring to as the Enby distribution for th...
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