Posted in Sabremetrics, Quick Hits on May 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Is your team’s front office getting the most out of every dollar they spend in salary? Are they getting the proverbial bang for their buck that it takes to win a championship? Thanks to Ben Fry, we can now answer that question in real time with his salary vs. performance visualization.
Looking at this visual […]
Posted in Graphs, Statistics, Sabremetrics, Musings From RSN on January 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
Inspired by Ryan Armbrust at The Pastime, here is my attempt to visually represent win share by player for the 2006 Red Sox season.
For those of you new to Win Shares, a Win Share is statistic built by Bill James that uses a variety of factors to boil players performance and his impact on his […]
Posted in New York Yankees, Sabremetrics, Musings From RSN on January 20th, 2007 7 Comments »
Nate Silver, Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA guru, has taken his first shot at team PECOTA projections for runs scored and runs allowed.
Using the PECOTA projections and Steven Miller’s variation of Bill James Pythagorean Win Expectation equation based on runs scored and runs allowed:
Where (a) = 1.79, you get a near dead heat for the AL East […]
Posted in Daisuke Matsuzaka, J.D. Drew, Closer, Jonathan Papelbon, Analysis, Personnel, Sabremetrics, Manny Ramirez, Musings From RSN on January 2nd, 2007 6 Comments »
According to a series of 100 Diamond Mind simulations of the 2007 season with current rosters and CHONE (Comprehensive Holistic Objective Numerical Estimations) projections for the season, the New York Yankees have a 73.5% chance of winning the division while the Red Sox are the wild card favorites with a 23% chance of winning the […]
Posted in Analysis, Alex Gonzalez, Statistics, Sabremetrics, Defense, Musings From RSN on November 4th, 2006 4 Comments »
Alex Gonzalez’s sparkling play at the shortstop position glittered, but all that glitters is not gold; at least not a gold glove. Despite the reputation as one of the best defensive shortstops in baseball history by players and media members alike, the Red Sox shortstop, along with the White Sox Juan Uribe and Twins […]
Posted in Moneyball, Sabremetrics, Musings From RSN on August 10th, 2004 No Comments »
I happened upon the following quote today from an article written in May by of all people, a Yankee fan. This article and it’s follow-ups (Productive Outs II and III) are all in response to a Buster Onley piece on ESPN.com entitled, Smallball vs. Moneyball.
There are times when a sacrifice bunt is not only […]
Posted in Game Score, Josh Beckett, Playoffs, Sabremetrics, Pitching, Pedro Martinez, Musings From RSN on October 13th, 2003 No Comments »
During a wild weekend of LCS baseball, fans were treated to a staff ace pitching the way a team needs them to in their biggest games of the season. No, it wasn’t Roger or Pedro on Saturday afternoon, it was a Sunday matinee performance by Florida Marlins 23 year old ace Josh Beckett.With his […]
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