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(This page will be changed as and when we feel it needful to comment on current baseball events relevant to this site.
And yet More Stats AddedWhole new pages of stats. More precisely, we have added, for each team a pair of pages (one for batting, one for pitching) that show for the current season each player's actual stat line and the stat line we would "expect", which is just his career stats pro-rated to his actual play time to date; with these. Moreover, there is on each page a team-summary line, so that you can see whether the team as a whole is performing better, worse, or about the same as one would have expected coming into the season (given the playing-time allocations as they are). There is also, besides the count stats, a short table of key rate stats (from BA to OPS) and a summary of TOP or TPP (as appropriate) differentials, so we can say such things as "the team TOP is X runs better than would have been exoected" or "the team TPP is Y runs worse than would have been exoected". More Stats AddedWe have now added the increasingly popular "Batting Average on Balls in Play" (BABIP) datum for all batting displays, including career stats. The stat is simply hits minus home runs divided by plate appearances minus walks, sac bunts, home runs, and strikeouts; that is, it's the batting average on all balls theoretically fieldable (the same thing as the BIP stat we use in discussing fielding). We have also added the strikeout rate, shown here as KA (strikeout average), which is strikeouts per total plate appearances (less sac bunts). Career Stats Added!With this change, every listing of a particular player's current-season stats conatins a link (the player's name) to a page with his full career stats, season by season and also career-cumulative. And that last is updated daily along with the other stats, so that for younger players you can see the numbers change. Moreover, we have also added career lines on a team basis: if you select the "Career" version of the team-stats page, you will see, for each player, his cumulative career line, including this season to data. You can select the "Career" team page from the regular, current-season team page (up neat the top) or from the separate teams-career portal page in the Site Directory. Second Web Site UpSome while ago I got so disgusted with all the errors, misrepresentations, and outright lies being peddled--usually at the top of someone's lungs--about steroids and other performance-enhancing substances in baseball that I created an entire web site to deal solely with that matter. The site is: http://steroids-and-baseball.com In it, you will find not opinions or guesses, but hard, cold scientific fact, with copious quotations from and links to the established medical and scientific literature of these substances, plus unique analyses of stats, and expositions from experts on the ethics of PEDs in sports. Give it a visit if you want some truth. Some Baseball PRThose of you who have read Moneyball will have seen us mentioned in it. We don't, to be frank, get adequate coverage: the book leaves the reader thinking that we provided a one-shot service early on, whereas we were on board from the start of the "renaissance" and almost two decades more. Alan Schwarz's book The Numbers Game will give you a much better idea than Lewis's book of our participation in the "renovation of baseball". These matters are touched on in the page on our qualifications to do this site. (Perhaps the upcoming movie version of Moneyball--yes, that's right, they're making a movie from it, with Brad Pitt as Billy Beane--may do the matter more justice. Or maybe less. We'll all have to wait and see (but as of late summer 2010, it looks like less--a lot less). |
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For You Rookies:
what this site is all about--what it is telling you about baseball, and how, and why |
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Some Baseball Analysis
Theory: a semi-technical backgrounding on modern baseball analysis |
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Baseball Stat Definitions: the standard and the unique statistics we present |
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The "Quality of Pitching" Measures: why they are the best way to evaluate pitching |
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The SillyBall: why baseball before and after 1993 is really two different games |
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Fielding and Defense in Baseball how important defense is or isn't in baseball, and how to correctly evaluate it |
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Baseball Data Normalization: why raw stats need "correction", and how and why we can and cannot apply it |
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"Steroids" and Other "Performance-Enhancing
Drugs": why just about everything you think you know about them is wrong (now a full-fledged site of its own) |
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(miscellaneous but not unimportant) |
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The Team-Performance Table there is a lot in that Table, and this explains what it all is |
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The HBH Baseball-Analysis Formula Tested what we get when we apply it to half a century of team stats |
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The Pitfalls of Park Factors an explicit, detailed demonstration of how and why they are so dubious |
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About High Boskage House who we are and why we might know what we're talking about |
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Links About Eric Walker links to baseball-related pages concerning the webmaster here |
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Links To A Select Few Other Useful Baseball Sites including those that link to this one |
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