Archive for the 'Stats' Category

Studes discusses why Win Shares are the best statistical tool to use for those MVP debates.

Studes pulls together a few graphs to illustrate how some major league teams are scoring runs this year.

Randy Johnson’s and Steve Carlton’s Win Shares, and the Win Share totals for each team this year.

A look at how players perform across the fourth dimension.

Larry shows how last week’s trade between the Dodgers and Marlins has illustrated the divide between sabermetrics and traditional analysis.

Studes gets lost wandering around this year’s ballparks.

A midseason look at each of the league’s best and worst fielding catchers.

Studes uses his entire Latin vocabulary for the title of his article, which is filled with non sequiturs and caveats. Alas, it is no magnum opus.

Now that ESPN is tracking Productive Outs, Larry takes one last look at the junk stat.

40% of the flyballs that Dustin Hermanson has allowed this year have been infield flies. Okay, that’s interesting, but what does it mean? Studes tries to figure it out.