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Team-Standing Error Found and Fixed

On Tuesday April 15th, we noticed that the Team Standings page was seriously off. We traced the problem to a format change in our data source (why two weeks into the season?), and have made the needed fixes. We aren't sure how long this error was present, but not over a few days at most. Sorry.

New Web Site Up

I have gotten 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 have created a whole new web site to deal solely with that matter. The site is:

Steroids and Baseball

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 PR

Those 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 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.




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Teams:
    Overall Team Performance Stats   (win projections and more from actual quality of play to date)
    Player Performance Stats, by Team
 
Batters:
    Batters by Last Name:    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
    Batters by Performance (a single all-batters list)
    Batters by Positions Played:

     alphabetically:               C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | LF | CF | RF | DH | SP | RP

     by batting performance:    C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | LF | CF | RF | DH | SP | RP
 
Pitchers:
    Pitchers by Last Name:    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
    Pitchers by Performance (a single all-pitchers list)
    Pitchers by Role:

     alphabetically:               Starters | Relievers

     by pitching performance:    Starters | Relievers
 
Other Statistical Data:
    "Regular" Players, Starting Pitchers, and Relief Pitchers, by Performance
    Team Defense (and its projected consequences)


Baseball "White Papers"--meanings and explanations of the things on this site
 
General Background:
    For You Rookies: what this site is all about--what it is telling you about baseball, and how, and why
    Some Baseball Analysis Theory: a semi-technical backgrounding on modern baseball analysis
    Baseball Stat Definitions: the standard and the unique statistics we present here, defined
    Baseball Data Normalization: how we correct for what, and why we need to
    The "Quality of Pitching" Measures: why they are the best way to evaluate pitching performance
    "Steroids": why just about everything you think you know about them is wrong
Now a site of its own! steroids-and-baseball.com (the link above gets you there)
    "The SillyBall": why baseball before and after 1993 is really two different games
 
About Particular Pages Here:
    The Team-Performance Table: there is a lot in that Table, and this explains what it all is
    The Team-Defense Table: how important defense is or isn't in baseball, and how to correctly evaluate it


Miscellaneous--but not unimportant
  About High Boskage House: who we are and why we might know what we're talking about regarding baseball
  Links To A Select Few Other Useful Baseball Sites (including those that link to this one)


The High Boskage House Baseball Shop (which offers more than baseball books--in fact, more than just books)
 
What Makes This "Baseball Shop" Special:
    Finding Books About Baseball Topics: we've already done it for you, and our list is updated daily
    Search For Any New Book at Amazon (which is, after all, the cheapest place to buy books new)
    Search For Any Used Book at Abebooks (which is the easiest place on the internet to find any used book)
    Search For Anything at All at Amazon: nowadays, they're a lot more than just books

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