Walk Like a Sabermetrician
Occasional commentary on baseball and sabermetrics
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Enby Distribution, pt. 8: Cigol at the Extremes--Pythagorean Exponent
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Among the possible choices, the Pythagorean family of W% estimators is by far the dominant species in the win estimator genus. While I’m su...
Saturday, July 21, 2018
A Mildly Pleasant Surprise
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Given the low expectations that this author held for the 2018 Buckeyes, the season that was can be seen as quite successful. Rebounding from...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Enby Distribution, pt. 7: Cigol at the Extremes--Runs Per Win
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Now that you presumably have some confidence in Cigol’s ability to do something fairly easy by the standards of classical sabermetrics, you ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Enby Distribution, pt. 6: Accuracy of Enby W% Estimate
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In the last post, I demonstrated how one can estimate W% from any runs per game and runs per inning distribution by using the basic principl...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
2018 Predictions
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See the standard disclaimers . This is an exercise in fun more than analysis, although hopefully there's a touch of the latter or you...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Enby Distribution, pt. 5: W% Estimate
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While an earlier post contained the full explanation of the methodology used to estimate W%, it’s an important enough topic to repeat in ful...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Doubles or Nothing
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In previewing the season to come for any team, it is customary (for good reason) to start by taking a look back at the previous season. Some...
Monday, January 08, 2018
Run Distribution and W%, 2017
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I always start this post by looking at team records in blowout and non-blowout games. This year, after a Twitter discussion with Tom Tango, ...
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