Cybermetrics

The Rangers won 18 post-season games over the last two years but did not win the World Series in either year. In fact, they won more post-se...

The table below shows the discrepancies between Yahoo and Baseball Reference It seem like SLGA is supposed to be slugging percentage allowed...

This came up on one of the SABR bulletin boards. Their OPS differential for the whole season was .073. That translates into a winning pct of...

Maybe. I plugged their OPS differential into the following equation for winning percentage: Pct = .5 + 1.26*OPSDifferential The A's had ...

New Cub GM Theo Epstein recently said of Castro: "Offensively, the things he has done is what guys who go on to be ten-time All-Stars a...

A team is overdue if the number of years since their last appearance is greater than the number of teams in their league. The table below li...

The Rangers hitters had an OPS of .800 during the season and their pitchers allowed a .698 OPS. So that is a .102 differential. The comparab...

In all playoff games, the AL teams averaged 4.87 runs per game. The AL runs per game this year was 4.46 during the regular season. The NL av...

That was by far the lowest of his career. So another reason why that season was so great. I did not see very much on this. See The Great For...

See When Data Guys Triumph by CADE MASSEY and BOB TEDESCHI, NY Times business section, 10-2-11. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane...

And people say I shy away from the controversial topics. This analysis is at the team level. Let's start with runs scored. The following...

Click here to read the AP article by Chris Jenkins . He writes: "The Diamondbacks might not have the Brewers’ marquee names. But the nu...

Each league had its second highest monthly OPS. The numbers for each league are in the table below. The NL's scoring was not that great ...

I am reposting this entry from April 2010 since the Moneyball movie just came out. Some sportswriters still like to make fun of the stathead...

That is the issue raised by an article in yesterday's NY Times Mr. Young, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Rivera Will Be Joining You By DAVE ANDERSON. He...

Cage match. Who would win? I think Bill James would have the size advantage, but I really don't know for sure. Anyway, Nobel prize winni...

ERA 1. J. Verlander DET 2.29 2. J. Weaver LAA 2.41 3. J. Beckett BOS 2.50 Wins 1. J. Verlander DET 24 2. C. Sabathia NYY 19 3. J. Weaver LAA...

Tom Ruane of Retrosheet looked into this after I asked him about it. Here is the link: Best/Worst Month for a Team's Pitchers Tom mentio...

The table below shows some basic stats for each month in both leagues. Hard to sum up September so far. The AL so far has had a big drop in ...

He now leads the AL in wins, strikeouts and ERA. Wins 1. J. Verlander DET 21 2. C. Sabathia NYY 19 3. J. Weaver LAA 16 Strikeouts...

So far this year, the AL is averaging 4.41 runs per game with an AVG-OBP-SLG of .257-.322-.405 and an OPS of .727. 1992 was the last year th...

With Curtis Granderson currently tied for the AL lead in HRs while leading in triples, I thought I would find all of the players who had led...

A guest post by Tom Ruane of SABR and Retrosheet I thought it might be interesting to look at four groups: 1) under .400, 2) under ....

The table below shows the OPS and runs per game for each league by month for 2011.

I'm looking at this because it was discussed at Baseball Think Factory . That discussion was inspired by a new website that is trying to...

He are the monthly OPS figures for the AL starting in April: April .713 May .720 June .719 July .731 For the whole season, it is .721. But j...

This was inspired by a discussion at Baseball Think Factory about an article at Fangraphs called Ryan Howard and the RBI by Steve Slowinsk...

I guess he is the subject of trade rumors. Here are some of his numbers Home: IP-265.67 H-254 HR-20 BB-103 SO-233 ERA-3.79 H/9IP-8.60 Away: ...

That was the title of Gilbert Martinez's presentation at the recent SABR convention. Gilbert is president of the Rogers Hornsby Chapter ...

His ERA is 5.19. The league average is 3.87. Yet here are his AVG-OBP-SLG allowed .262-.281-.341 The league averages are .252-.319-.392 So h...

This is a guest post by Tom Ruane, based on a post to the SABR list. While watching the two teams fail to score for most of the evening duri...

The table below shows these stats over the course of his career. Data from Baseball Reference. These last two years his OPS+ has been well a...

I wonder if this is not that strange. The first 3 NL pitchers used in the game are former ALers (Halladay, Lee, Clippard). The first 4 hits ...

You might have heard of these guys. Halladay. Hamels. Lee. Here is where they rank in WAR among NL pitchers this year: 1. Halladay (PHI) 4.9...

Derek Jeter got his 3000th hit today, only the 28th player to do so. It was a HR, at home, on what looked like a beautiful afternoon in NY, ...

Alot of people are mentioning this on blogs. David Pinto mentioned that he is right up there with Bryce Harper as the top prospect in baseba...

Here are the OPS levels in the NL by month starting in April: .709 .702 .699 .714 For the whole season, the NL has .704. For all of last yea...

It seems like alot of people are wondering how a guy who is 2nd in WAR in the NL at both Baseball Reference and Fangraphs is not on the team...

Last week on the ESPN2 show "First Take," one of the commentators said something like "AROD is in serious decline this year....

Rich has been cited for showing "you can move around the traditional gatekeepers and centers of power" because of his great campai...

See Worley, Phils beat Marlins 1-0 . One anonymous source said "The guy clearly was not pulling his weight." Another said "We...

Bill Gilbert pointed this out to me. Here are the leaders from Baseball Reference: 1. McCutchen (PIT) 5.1 Kemp (LAD) 5.1 3. Halladay (PHI) ...

They had the worst record in baseball on May 6 at 11-22. They were the only team below .400 at that point. In April, they had a batting OPS ...

A pleasant surprise for the White Sox, although it is only for half a season. Humber is not striking out alot of guys, but he is not walking...

The NL OPS in each of the first 3 months has been: .709-.702-.699. The declines seem as surpising as the low levels. And in June the NL has ...

I guess there is nothing left to believe in. It was a great Cinderella story that year and now it is ruined. Click here to read the story ,

...“I wasn’t a closer, I was a relief pitcher,” Gossage said. He made a great point that he was not just the closer, but the seventh and eig...