derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 25 2007 | baseball, statistics, sabermetrics, funnyFJM, 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 - Aug 27 2008 | blogs, baseball, statistics, ryan howardWow, no wonder I haven't heard Howard's name much this season.
Quoted: Nobody has ever hit 40+ home runs with a sub-.800 OPS.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - May 30 2008 | baseball, politics, baseball prospectus, statistics, charts, polls
Applying rigorous baseball analysis methodologies to politics ... a project by Nate Silver of Baseball Prospectus. Political sabermetrics, basically.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 27 2008 | baseball, statistics, rbi, fjm, funny
lol
Quoted: Then explains his method of using RBI, which does little or nothing to fix the problem. It's like saying, "Throwing money into your toilet is bad, because if you throw money in your toilet, you won't be able to use it to buy food, or furniture. Instead, you should set it on fire, and toss the ashes into the toilet. That way, the toilet won't clog."
- 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 - Jan 27 2007 | mariners, baseball, seattle, statistics
Terrific analysis of the potential (likely?) Jeff Weaver deal.
Quoted: Seattle Mariners and general baseball discussion with Jason Michael Barker, David Cameron, Jeff Shaw, and Derek Milhous Zumsteg.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 23 2006 | baseball, statistics
Makes perfect sense to me ... would like to see this statistic made more visible.
Quoted: A hitter who is 0 for 3 against a particular pitcher, but who has hit several line drives directly at infielders, could presumably look forward to some ultimate success.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 14 2006 | baseball, statistics, blogs, linq
Yes, I started a blog. Yes, that makes me a dork.
Quoted: Sample LINQ queries for calculating various baseball statistics using Retrosheet event files.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 09 2006 | baseball, mlb, statistics, project scoresheet
Awesome.
Quoted: Baseball and its players have no right to prevent the use of names and playing records, U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler in St. ...
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- ms.kruse - Apr 25 2007
You must be Derek's friend before you can comment on this Fave.LOL. Brilliant indeed.
Thank you. I'm glad somebody else understands :)
I bet Alyssa understands :(
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