Walk Like a Sabermetrician

These are very simple playoff odds, based on my crude rating system for teams using an equal mix of W%, EW% (based on R/RA), PW% (based on R...

This is (finally!) the last post in this series, at least for now. In the Mets essay for the 1986 Baseball Abstract , Bill James focused o...

It’s never fun to be in a position where you feel like your team’s short-term success will hamper its long-term prospects. For one, it is in...

Even for this series, this is an esoteric topic, but I wanted to specifically explore how Enby, Cigol, runs per win, Pythagorean exponent, e...

This is a blog intended for sabermetrically-inclined readers. I shouldn’t have to spell out a list of caveats about the for entertainment pu...

What happens when you take a team that got into the NCAA tournament despite finishing in the middle of the pack in its conference and relyin...

In the last installment, I explored using the Cigol dataset to estimate the Pythagorean exponent. Alternatively, we could sidestep the atte...

I always start this post by looking at team records in blowout and non-blowout games. I define blowouts as games in which the margin of vict...