Walk Like a Sabermetrician

I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know, but the 2021 season will be the hardest to forecast in recent times. While there weren’...

Using a positional adjustment as part of a total value metric (WAR, VORP, etc.) doesn't imply that players can be freely interchanged ac...

It’s understandable that the editing process for Baseball Prospectus 2021 overlooked something trivial like explaining what a metric in the...

There are many “crimes against baseball” that one could charge Rob Manfred with, if one were inclined to use hyperbolic language and preten...

I had intended the last installment to be the end of this series, but Tom Tango left a comment on pt. 3 that led me down a rabbit hole. It’s...

Herein I’ll be using the expansion era (1961 – 2019) data for all major league teams to calculate the RMSE of the various Akousmatikoi win e...

Simplifying the Pythagorean estimate by focusing on run differential is not as intuitive as using run ratio, since of course Pythagorean con...

We will begin our endeavor to simplify/”flatten” the Pythagenpat exponent by looking at approaches that maintain the use of run ratio as the...