Cybermetrics

This is a guest post by Doctor Steven A. King For anyone tempted to read the original paper on which this story was based thinking that it ...

I wrote several posts on this back in February 2008. Since he has been indicted, I guess this might be relevant again. My idea was to see if...

I used data from Baseball Reference and broke things down into the two leagues from 1901-2010. Balls in play (BIP) = BFP - HR - SO - BB - HB...

I wrote this a few years ago for the Chicago Sports Review . I thought I would post it again since Rob Neyer just had a blog entry titled Wh...

My first post on the Astros was Astros Offense On Record Setting Low Pace . Right now their OPS is .665 and the league average is .729. So ....

On the Tigers radio broadcast of the White Sox-Tigers game, the analyst, Jim Price I think, who was a Tigers catcher, said something like ...

They have the second best record in baseball. But it looks like that is only because they are especially good in "clutch" situatio...

This was first posted in May of 2009. Go to Why Isn't Steve Garvey In The Hall Of Fame? . It has generated comments every few months, so...

The first link tells you the batting average (AVG) and isolated power (ISO) each year in the AL for both close and late hitting vs. non-clos...

I first reported on this issue in a post last year Did The Increased Use Of Relief Pitching Cause A Decline In Clutch Hitting? Back in the ...

This is prompted by a post by Tom Tango (aka tangotiger) titled Best and Worst Clutch Hitters of the Retrosheet era . Tom has a clutch stat ...

He hit only his 6th career triple in the game and that was after over 4,000 ABs. That sounds slow. I have a theory that you can get a genera...

Here is what was said at the Dallas Morning News blog by Guy Reynolds, Photo editor "I found this photo in the AP archives yesterday an...

My first post on the Astros was Astros Offense On Record Setting Low Pace . Right now their OPS is .643 and the league average is .729. So ....

It began with a 15-3 win over the Tigers on June 9. The Sox had 16 hits, including 3 HRs. They beat Detroit again the next day to take two o...

Derrick Gold and Joe Strauss recently came up with a stat they call the "splinter score." It is HRs divided by strikeouts. But nei...

Below is a post from last year called Starting Pitchers As Relievers Over Time . Alot of people have been talking about starter Matt Garza c...

The first post on this is right before this one. It was generated by an announcer saying something like "Sosa hit alot of HRs in when t...

While watching the Ranger's broadcast of their game vs. the White Sox last night, one of the announcers said something about how Josh Ha...

Dave Studeman brought this up topic up earlier this week at The Hardball Times with Koufax’s peak . I have done some research on a related n...

My first post on the Astros was Astros Offense On Record Setting Low Pace . Right now their OPS is .630 and the league average is .727. So ....

That may not be an earth-shaking headline. But considering that they also led the league in OPS+ and DER (defensive efficiency rating), that...

This issue came up in a recent NY Times blog entry. It was A Labor Market (and Baseball) Mystery . The issue had to do with the pay of middl...

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...