Walk Like a Sabermetrician
Occasional commentary on baseball and sabermetrics
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Rate Stat Series, pt. 6: Rate Stats for Linear Weights I
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Last time, I attempted to demonstrate that linear weights producing a result in terms of runs above average properly account for the value o...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021
Rate Stat Series, pt. 5: Linear Weights Background
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Linear methods sidestep the issues that arise from applying dynamic run estimators to players by simply ignoring any non-linearity in the ru...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Rate Stat Series, pt. 4: Players as Teams
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A dynamic run estimator is a run estimator that allows offensive events to interact with each other, such that the value of a given event i...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Rate Stat Series, pt. 3: Teams
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If I tell you that three teams in the same league-season played the same number of games (113), and that one of them scored 679 runs, anothe...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Rate Stat Series, pt. 2: PA Generation
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This is a little bit of a detour and certainly nothing new (I don’t know who originally laid out this logic/math – the earliest use I’m awar...
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
Almost Perfect
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In my earlier days as a baseball fan, I was really interested in no-hitters, and outside of the Indians winning the World Series, my most fe...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Rate Stat Series, pt. 1: Introduction
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This blog has existed for sixteen years now, and yet with the exception of some (relatively) recent stuff I’ve written about the Enby distri...
Thursday, April 01, 2021
Give Us This Day Our Daily Ball
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Rob Manfred, who art Commissioner Halloweth be our game Thy rule changes be undone, thy no longer assault fun In 2022 as it was in 200...
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