Walk Like a Sabermetrician

This installment will tie up a few miscellaneous loose threads pertaining to rate stats to be used within a linear weights framework. The fi...

In the last post, we ended with a dilemma: we have a metric (linear weights RAA/PA) that we believe is correct for a linear framework, but i...

Last time, I attempted to demonstrate that linear weights producing a result in terms of runs above average properly account for the value o...

Linear methods sidestep the issues that arise from applying dynamic run estimators to players by simply ignoring any non-linearity in the ru...

 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...

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...

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...

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...