beyondtheboxscore.com - 11/8/2009
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Harry on Bard's breaking ball: "That which we call a slider, by any other name, would smell as sweet."
Visual scouting reports for batters using R. Or, alternatively, Jeremy Greenhouse keeps things hot.
How is slot-busting is like marijuana laws and other observations on baseball parity, by ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 11/4/2009 — Jay at Fack Youk teaches Mike Lupica the difference between ex ante and ex post judgments.
Sure, the Nationals have options for their rotation. Are any of them worthwhile?
Meanwhile, in Arizona, Strasburg slowly improves. Just sayin'.
Maybe Nationals brass will catch him on TV in the AFL ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 10/27/2009 — Comprehensive umpire statistics, including a comparison of the World Series umpires
Sale of Chicago Cubs to Ricketts family completed
How game theory refines win expectancy, or how Joe Girardi learned to love the bunt
Don't use regression to find linear weights, or a reminder that ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 11/1/2009 — Month-by-month fastball velocity splits, disaggregated in just about every way imaginable .
Why to love the offseason, even if you're an Astros fan .
Should the Braves trade Javier Vazquez ?
The role of long-term contracts in building a repeat contender . (Beware post hoc ergo propter ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 26 days ago — 2010 CHONE hitter projections are live . Gentlemen, start your spreadsheets. Here are the free agents .
Why game theory promises more than it can deliver . How often do you think, "we could solve this problem if only we had the right data"? It may not be true.
Bill Simmons does not ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 22 days ago — Jeremy Greenhouse's Visual Scouting Report 1.0 : Bay vs. Holliday. The heat is on!
A Wrigley mystery contained in a photo . If you'd like to take a crack at it without seeing the answer, the question is: "of which game was this picture taken?"
Was Zack Greinke's 2009 more ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 21 days ago — Dave Cameron on the value of depth, or how to minimize risk while adding wins . Of course, there is the difficulty of knowing whether a player whose production falls in the right-tail of the distribution is relying on luck versus skill, which makes the manager's decision difficult.
The ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 18 days ago — Do metrics blind our perception? There is perhaps a legitimate risk that you get only what you quantify, but you must ask the question, "how important are the things we cannot quantify?"
Listen to Larry, for he is wise . I bet you didn't think linguistics had anything to do with ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 30 days ago — How transaction costs increase player movement under free agency . The Coase theorem does not apply when transaction costs are high; anyone know how much Scott Boras took home last year?
The doctrine of comparative advantage: the Rays and A's should trade for mutual benefit . Somewhere, David ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 25 days ago — The art and science of well-timed acquisitions and trades . Why everyone looks like a genius in hindsight and true value is tough to find.
Tommy Rancel interviewed Andrew Friedman . He discusses the fact that he does not have a contract with the Rays, picking late in the draft, and ...
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beyondtheboxscore.com 23 days ago — J.C. Bradbury takes on the world! He argues players peak at age 29-30 , then Phil Birnbaum replies , then Bradbury fires back armed with graphs , then Colin Wyers gets into it . Bottom line is that this stuff is hard and any attempt to analyze the data will include ...
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