Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
You know what's cool about the internet? An hour's worth of messing around in Excel can lead to a bunch of completely unwarranted eyes on my site, thanks to one FanGraphs writer.
Behold, Team NERD.
I know you're thinking what I'm thinking, that if there's one formula you'd like to be a ...
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Matthew Carruth made some excellent points in today's Fangraphs article about using BaseRuns as a "sanity check" for a team's performance at this point in the season.
The theory is that you can break runs scored and allowed into their components and remove some of the "noise" in projecting wins based ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
The Braves sure know how to finish, don't they? The team made it to the final week of the season in contention and decided they'd had enough drama for one season, so they packed up and went home a week early. The end result: a six-game home losing streak to ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Five. That's the Rockies' magic number this morning after the Braves extended their win streak to six games yesterday. It was a good week picking on the dregs of the NL East, the Mets and Nationals. I'm not going to dwell much on the stats this week, but I'll consider ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
If you read a lot of baseball blogs, you've probably seen this news a hundred times already today. If not, you need to be warned that a killer baseball app has hit the iPhone. Christmas is here early for this stat and tech geek.
FanGraphs has made an iPhone app that ...
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