Cybermetrics

The graph below shows the numbers for the AL. Now the NL The trend has also been to a higher frequency of doubles. See The ...

They hit well with runners on base but their pitchers do very poorly with runners on base and both the hitters and pitchers do poorly when i...

The Yahoo Sports baseball page has a feature article on this. It says "New alphabet: Fewer K's, more W's for Nats: Washington...

We are just about at the half way mark. The table below shows all teams. Their expected winning pct is from my equation .5 + 1.26*OPSDIFF ...

This was posted to SABR-L on June 24 by David Vincent. Jim Thome 13 Babe Ruth 12 Jimmie Foxx 12 Stan...

About half way through the season, he has a defensive WAR of 3.4. The current record is 5.4 by SS Terry Turner in 1906. The only other seaso...

The table below shows some key percentages. For the percentages, I divided by PAs (with IBBs and SHs being taken out). I included HBP in wal...

It might only look that way. See Clutch, WPA/LI, and the Home Run Bias by Kincaid of 3-D Baseball and HR Bias in Clutch scores, based on Si...

Fun stuff. Click here to go to it . The Yankees and Nationals both have 6 game streaks and they are about to play each other. Tom shows thi...

To look at this I did a regression with ERA as the dependent variable and HRs, BBs, and SOs (all per 9 IP) as the independent variables. The...

He was booed last night in Philadelphia. See Why Phils fans shouldn't boo Abreu by LESLIE GUDEL of csnphilly.com. One commenter said ...

Yes, Chris Sale of the White Sox leads the AL in ERA (with 2.30). Strasburg is 4th in the NL with 2.35. The table below has some statistical...

And they won all five games, too. The next highest 5 game total this year is 48, by the Rangers. If anyone knows the all-time record, let me...

Well,  maybe not real new since it came out last September. Tom Tango mentioned this at his blog. It is called Basic Ball: New Approaches fo...

Which number do you think is lower: Lincecum's ERA+ or Pujols' OPS+? Lincecum has 57 and Pujols has 68 (100 is average in each case ...

Oh, you mean Chris Sale of the White Sox. Pretty well. His career stats are in the table below. Now his being a reliever in 2010-1...

The table below shows his OPS+ for every month of his career. 100 is average and it adjusts for the league average in each month and park ef...

His AVG is .180, his OBP is .255 and his SLG is .240. He was not the starting 2B man today but he is in now as a pinch runner who just got t...

There is a new book out called Extra Innings by Bruce E. Spitzer. Here is the Amazon description: "In the year 2092, Ted Williams, ...

Phil Humber of the White Sox just pitched a perfect game against the Mariners. Click here to go to the box score   Click here to read...

I did something similar in December called How Well Might Pujols Hit After Age 35? It seemed like the odds were against him doing well afte...

Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports has a column titled Angels, Pujols slump through April waiting game . Excerpt: "Eleven games into life as an ...

This is related to my most recent post from Friday I came up with a point system for this. A player would get 10 points for each time he led...

So what is a baseball "millionaire?" (warning to the hard core-this is probably an example of what Bill James called a "junk ...

This took years of work and I incorporated the best analysis from all the top sabermetricians. This team will end all the debates and gives ...

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 ...