Cybermetrics

This issue came up recently on the email list of the Hornsby chapter of SABR. Someone said that the power hitting 2B man was not necessarily...

This is a guest post by Tom Ruane. It is from some SABR list posts in 1999. I was reminded of them by a recent post at "The Book" ...

That is the title of a recent post at Fangraphs by Bill Petti. He looked at the volatility of runs scored per game and runs allowed per game...

One idea I have about the Hall of Fame is that worthy players should have at least some significant peak value. Maybe something like 3 strai...

Part 1 was actually Which Players Had The Most Uncharacteristically Good Seasons? What I did there was to find all the players who had 10+ ...

The table below shows all the position players who had at least one season of WAR 10 or higher (from Baseball Reference). Of all the players...

He got in, via the Veterans Committee, in 1981. So it might seem a little late and silly to complain about it. But he never he even got 50% ...

See HOF Story 2: The Holdovers by Joe Posnanski. (Hat Tip: The Book blog) POZ wrote: “Don Mattingly’s career was too short, but few would s...

The first thing I tried to do was create a set of comparables. So I found all the 1B men who had 4000+ PAs before the age of 32 since 1920 w...

The PA minimum was 400. Here is the list of those 38 players. I highlighted Elmer Flick because he is the answer (or maybe an answer) to a ...

He got 15 votes from the 16 member "Golden Era" committee. I read a couple of stories about it but I did not see any statements fr...

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...