Everyone has a realignment plan for baseball these days, or so it seems, and I’m no different. For the uninitiated, word has leaked that Major League Baseball may be considering a realignment plan that would even the two leagues at 15 teams each. Further, there is some speculation that the leagues would do away with […]
Category: Baseball (General)
BaseRuns Spreadsheet and "Team NERD"
You know what’s cool about the internet? An hour’s worth of messing around in Excel can lead to a bunch of completely unwarranted eyes on my site, thanks to one FanGraphs writer. Behold, Team NERD. I know you’re thinking what I’m thinking, that if there’s one formula you’d like to be a part of, it […]
2010 Pythagorean Wins with BaseRuns
2011 update: Download here: Google Docs / Dropbox Matthew Carruth made some excellent points in today’s Fangraphs article about using BaseRuns as a “sanity check” for a team’s performance at this point in the season. The theory is that you can break runs scored and allowed into their components and remove some of the “noise” […]
FanGraphs for iPhone
If you read a lot of baseball blogs, you’ve probably seen this news a hundred times already today. If not, you need to be warned that a killer baseball app has hit the iPhone. Christmas is here early for this stat and tech geek. FanGraphs has made an iPhone app that currently includes their live […]
Getting your baseball fix on an iPhone: Introduction
When your blog’s readership is as small and focused as mine, you start to wonder if anything of “general interest” is really worth posting amidst the glut of specific-interest content. It’s a good thing I like writing anyway, because I’m throwing caution to the wind and doing a “general interest” series with only a slight […]
Moneyball: The Movie
Perhaps this is old news to you, but perhaps it is not. Maybe, like me, you read some of the headlines about a Moneyball movie back in October, but you figured it was just some kind of joke, and a bad joke at that. If that was the case, you and I would both be […]
Back from vacation, ready for a vacation from vacation
I’ve had a fun week and a half, but I’m ready to be at home for a while now. Tonight will be the first night since 3/12 that I’ve spent back-to-back nights at home and the first night in almost a week that I’ve spent back-to-back nights at the same place. I suppose I really […]
2009 Florida Spring Training Trip – Schedule
Being out of college and married with no kids has certain benefits, even in a slumping economy. My wife’s job recently offered her the opportunity to go to a conference in Orlando in March (free hotel!), so my eyes lit up with only one thought: Spring Training. Her conference is this weekend, and today I’m […]
I survived the A-Rod story, and you can too
I don’t have three easy steps or anything, but I think baseball fans will survive this weekend’s revelation (and yesterday’s admission) that Alex Rodriguez was on steroids from 2001-2003. I already have. Let’s get a few things out of the way first: No one involved is innocent, and most of all A-Rod is not innocent. […]
Notes: November 14, 2008
This is a fascinating time of year for me. Not that there aren’t a lot of those times of year, but I especially love the fall season. College football is always compelling in November because of the BCS circus. I’m actually still competitive in all of my fantasy football leagues, which is a welcome change […]
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