Cybermetrics

They have hit 88 HRs in 52 games or about 1.69 per game. If they do that for the entire season, they will end up with 274 HRs, beating the r...

On May 23 I reported that their OPS relative to the league average was just 81. Now their OPS is .605 while the league OPS is .731. The rati...

I took the data from Retrosheet. The regression equation was Pct = .5+ 1.37*OPPSDIFF where pct is team winning percentage. The r-sqaured was...

Last week I reported that their OPS relative to the league average was just 81. If that is what they finished with, it would be the lowest e...

In discussing how well the Rays are doing this year with their +95 run differential, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian said that they probably will no...

They have a team OPS of .597 while the NL average is .735. So they have a rate of 81 (.597/.735 = .81, which is 81 when multiplied by 100). ...

Well, you may know some of this. And even if you don't, some of it won't be a surprise. But this was fun to put together. For one, t...

They are 17-5 while they outscored their opponents 142-73.That works out to a pythagorean pct of .791 or 17.4 wins. So it seems like saberme...

Possibly. This issue came up in a NY Times article by STUART MILLER called Plunking Parallel: Steroid Use and Hit Batsmen (Hat Tip: JC Brad...

It seems to matter, but maybe much less than simply scoring and preventing runs. I looked at two periods, 1963-68 and 1996-2000. In each c...

This is based on what I did last week to look at the best seasons. It involves finding base stealings runs (using the linear weights values)...

I took all players who had 20+ SBs in seasons when CS was also recorded from the Lee Sinins Complete Baseball Encyclopedia. These seasons we...

Some sportswriters still like to make fun of the statheads or sabermetricians who never played the game and still live in their mom's ba...

To read the second part go to Which Players Had The Most Surprising Walk Rates? (Part 2) . In Part 1, I looked at walk rates relative to the...

April first 2010 will go down in history. Click White Sox Sign Obama For Left-handed Bullpen Support to read all about it.

The table below shows the top offensive winning percentages (OWP) for each 5-year age period. The plate appearance (PA) minimum was 2000. Th...

I had a post about this a couple of weeks ago called Ted Williams 1941: May 16th, .333; June 6, .436 . This post will go into more detail. I...

Joe Posnanski had a blog entry called Pedro Feliz, Houston . It raises the question about whether or not Feliz is a good RBI man. It was in ...

Beyond The Boxscore has a good article on Davis called Willie Davis, underrated ballplayer (1940-2010) . He currently ranks 124th in WAR all...

Yes, he raised his average 100 points in just 21 days. As you can imagine, it took alot of work to piece all this data together. But I didn...

Bill is the president of the Rogers Hornsby Chapter of SABR. He has been involved with actual arbitration cases in the past. His co-author t...

According to a Bloomberg article: "First-place winners get gold-plated medals that are 92.5 percent silver. The second-place prizes are...

This issue came up over at "The Book" blog. See Consistency is better than inconsistency? . Here is something I did several years ...

This is what Pete Hamill said in his review of the new book on Mays. See Willie Mays, the Say Hey Kid . Here is what I came up with on this....

"The Atlanta Braves’ third baseman still says he will walk away from the game if he can’t bounce back from a disappointing 2009 season....

This subject came up on the blogosphere today. See Was the 1980 Miracle on Ice team really that much of a Miracle? by Tangotiger. He links ...

It looks like he was very good in each of the past two years. I am not going to discuss the issue of what percent of his flyballs became HRs...

There has been some discussion recently on whether or not Kenny Lofton should make the Hall of Fame. I am not going to try to figure that ou...

Most of you probably know that Ken Williams, in 1922, was the first player to hit 30+ HRs and steal 30+ bases in a season. A book review las...

Some people wondered about how McGwire compared to his contemporaries. Others wondered about how other players, who, like Big Mac, had injur...

In Part 1, I compared his and all the previous players with 400+ HRs in how their SLG from age 31-37 compared to their SLG from when they we...

In some ways it looks like he aged significantly better, but I don't the evidence is completely conclusive. I took all the guys who had ...

Introduction I wrote a post comparing these two along with Sandy Koufax a few days ago in response to a piece by Joe Sheehan. A commentor at...