derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 10 2006 | sabermetrics, basketball, nba, statistics, news
Sabermetrics for basketball! I was just thinking about this the other day. Good stuff.
Quoted: What the non-scorers do matters, and in fact, it is those players who might ultimately decide who gets to be crowned N.B.A. champions.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 06 2009 | mariners, baseball, seattle, sabermetrics
Having read much of tangotiger's work, this is great news.
Quoted: Derek noted it in passing in his thread on Blengino's BP interview, but it deserves its own post. The Mariners have hired Tom Tango as a consultant to assist
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2008 | news, baseball, sabermetrics, moneyball, books
Crazy!
Quoted: Brad Pitt is adding to his busy schedule by playing ball for Columbia..Los Angeles, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Columbia pitches 'Moneyball' to Pitt.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 09 2008 | baseball, defense, stats, sabermetrics
Is Adrian Beltre the most valuable defensive player in baseball? It's possible.
Is Raul Ibanez a worse defender than Manny Ramirez? Also possible.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2008 | baseball, seattle, mariners, petition, chris antonetti, sabermetrics+1! +1!
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 21 2007 | mariners, baseball, blogs, sabermetrics, carlos silva, bill bavasi
Heh, the Bavasi hate fest continues.
Quoted: A pitcher who just a year ago was detrimental to his team is now making 12 million annually. In fairness to Silva he did allow more line drives than before in 2006, but this signing is inexcusable for me - pitchers like Ted Lilly, Javier Vazquez, and Gil Meche are making - Silva isn't nearly as good as that trio.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2007 | baseball, statistics, sabermetrics, funny
FJM, brilliant as usual.
Quoted: How is that the conclusion?! The conclusion should be: in small numbers of data points, there is bound to be enormous fluctuation. This is like saying: yesterday it was sunny, today it poured. Surely, some Fertility God disapproved of our elk sacrifice.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 02 2007 | blogs, baseball, sabermetrics, clutch
Awesome.
Quoted: The next obvious question is that if David Ortiz embodies clutch ability, then there must be a player who embodies everything that Ortiz isn’t… or a player that isn’t everything that Ortiz is… something like that. I need a poster boy for anti-clutch.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2007 | baseball, statistics, mariners, sabermetrics
Quoted: I’ve used Monte Carlo simulations, for example, in the analysis of wind speed fluctuations over time AND to generate Win Probability Added statistics for baseball games in the play by play era.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2007 | baseball, sabermetrics, statistics, projections, regression analysis
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2006 | baseball, sabermetrics, markov, probability
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