Cybermetrics

The Retrosheet site can tell you the league averages for various situations going back to 1952 for the NL and 1953 for the AL (plus some ea...

This is another one of those "Tenace was better than is commonly thought" articles. Here is the link to his Retrosheet page Gene T...

This issue got brought up at Seattle Sports Insider with M's Tilt at Pythag Windmill . They seem to be winning more games than their ru...

Below are two messages I just posted to SABR-L. It looks like Berra's extra good performance in close and late situations is significant...

This is a follow up to my last post on "how good was he?" which you can read below. He batted .363 from ages 22-29 but only .309 f...

You may have heard that Ichiro Suzuki recently became the second fastest player to reach 2000 hits. He did it in 1402 games. Al Simmons was ...

"Maybe the media simply has no idea how valuable Chase Utley is,..." said Tom Tango at his The Book blog. If so, I think it might...

David Pinto of "Baseball Musings" said "Fielder doesn’t hit many homers late, as only 10 of his 37 have come from the 7th inn...

I got thinking about this thanks to a thread at Baseball Think Factory . It had to do with productive outs and how the Phillies were hitting...

I just submitted this as an email to the SABR list: Yaz had a career average against righties of .299 while it was .244 against lefties (tha...

This issue came up over at The Daily Something's Happy Birthday To Mike Piazza . Bill apparently thinks that Piazza got robbed when the ...

Okay, this post isn't really about those things-I just wanted to get Al Gore and Star Trek (TOS) fans to read it. Well, the imbalance of...

Part 1 was Explaining The 1959 White Sox . There I showed that the White Sox had a much higher winning percentage than their underlying stat...

At the start of the season, the three of them were all tied for the record with the fewest triples with 5000+ ABs with 6. Lowell got one on ...

This issue came up in ALAN ROBINSON's article titled Parker wonders if drug use keeps him out of HOF . It compares Parker to recent indu...

This is being discussed at Beyond The Boxscore and Baseball Think Factory . With 685 runs scored and 605 allowed, their Pyth pct is .561, g...

I have written a few posts this season on how the Rangers are a great power hitting team but they are just about average in scoring because ...

By now you proably heard that Sox GM Kenny Williams called them that. Is it true? To see if it is, I compared how individual players and pit...

That was the title of an article in the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 4. I have not seen much comment on it in the blogosphere, so I thought I...

The Marlins are actually doing just a bit better than this stat zombie would expect. From a regression I ran a few years ago, Winning Pct = ...

The Dodgers lead the NL in both fielding percentage and defensive efficiency rating (DER). DER simply says what % of balls in play are turne...

That is according to the the ESPN rankings . They say they use the DIPS 2.0 formula . Although he allowed 3 earned runs in 5 IP (for a 5.40 ...

They won the pennant but their underlying stats were not that good. The reason they came in first is that they performed remarkably well in ...

Yesterday I mentioned that they have done very well in computer simulation seasons. I think that might be due to how well they performed sta...

There is a book about them. It is 1922 St. Louis Browns: Best of the American League's Worst by by Roger A. Godin. But I have not read ...

(or maybe we should call them the "Power Rangers") With 2/3 of the season having been played, the Rangers have 168 HRs. If we simp...

Bob Ryan of boston.com recently wrote an article called The big picture is that Rice earned his plaque . He takes a swipe at "SABR peop...

He retired the first 17 tonight. Plus he retired the last batter he faced in the game before the perfect game. That makes 45 straight batter...

Yesterday, Josh Willingham of the Washington Nationals hit two grandslams in one game, becoming the 13th player to ever do this. It was just...

That is the name of an article I wrote a few years ago for Beyond the Boxscore. It is at How Important is Home Field Advantage in the World ...

Click on this link to go to the new address Cyril Morong's Sabermetric Research . This link has alot of my research on it. If some of th...

There was a very intriguing post a few weeks ago at the Hardball Times by Derek Carty called Using FIP to evaluate pitchers? I wouldn’t . Th...

He leads the NL in both HRs and RBIs by 7. He is 2nd in AVG with .336 while Hanley Ramirez is hitting .344. But I compared Pujols to Ramirez...

I looked at every player with 5000+ PAs since 1920. I found their relative HRs and their relative strikeouts. Then found the ratio of the tw...

ESPN analyst and former major league player wrote a blog entry called Enjoy it for what it's worth . Sky Kalkman at "Beyond the Box...