Try your hand at projecting the 2009 Astros
The Crawfish Boxes —
Try your hand at projecting the 2009 Astros
Sky provides access to the spread sheet, you can look at what I've got done here, and here's a link on how to calculate wOBA.
I need to redo my projected wOBA using CHONE, but that's on my schedule ...
2009 AL Central Win Projections - version 1
Twinkie Town —
A bunch of us at Beyond the Boxscore are collaborating on developing community Win Above Replacement (WAR) projections for all 30 MLB teams.
BTB WAR Projections
Using the recommended (draft) spreadsheet (thanks Sky!), I've taken a crack at projections for the Twins, as well as the rest of the AL Central (to give these numbers some context). I'm hoping as a group, we can collaborate on an "official" Twins projection and compare to other teams in the division. I'm very interested in your input and suggestions, hopefully we can refine this as we ...
Sunday tidbits
Viva El Birdos —
... If you haven’t yet visited the link, Erik (yes, of futureredbirds fame) has posted a great fanpost that uses Sky Kalkman’s user-friendly WAR spreadsheet to project the ...
(Roughly) Projecting The Elvis Andrus/Michael Young Tandem
Baseball Time in Arlington —
... In a somewhat inspired attempt to illustrate this concept, I've approximated some offensive and defensive numbers in a below table using the previously discussed concept of wins above replacement (level). For 2008, I've taken the actual overall batting lines Texas extracted out of shortstop (.283/.339/.408 in 767 PA) and third base (.281/.339/.469 in 655 PA) in 2008 and roughly converted them into wOBA, or weighted on-base average, using the method suggested by Beyond the Box Score's Sky Kalkman; for 2009, I loosely employed Sean Smith's CHONE offensive projections for Michael ...
