Archive for June 2005

All of our team and player statistics, including Win Shares, are updated through games of June 9.

There is a lot of great information about the Major League draft on the web — what a great change from just five years ago! In addition to Aaron’s article, you might want to read Baseball Savant’s well-written take on the draft. And here’s one other draft note for you: Rob Bell,. who was the […]

There’s a great article at Only Baseball Matters, featuring Milton Bradley speaking to a crowd of eighth graders. When he talks about his mother, I get all choked up. Also, if you haven’t been to Retrosheet lately, you should check it out. The list of features at Retrosheet keeps growing, including links to top performances […]

Today is the 1/3 mark of the season, with the average team having played 54 games. In celebration, I have updated all stats, so you can easily calculate your own “on pace fors.” For instance, Derrek Lee now leads the majors in Win Shares, and he’s on pace for 48. That’s a Bondsian pace. Here […]

The Detroit Tigers weblog has done a nice job of converting the AL Central’s Win Shares for each player into a graphic called a treemap. It’s worth a long look to see what you can see.

All stats have been updated through games of May 30th, including Win Shares. However, please note that the fielding portion of Win Shares are not correct. They will be corrected tomorrow. UPDATE (6/1): the Win Share totals, including fielding Win Shares, are now correct.

In addition to Win Shares, we have updated all the team and individual batting and pitching stats. The team stats are updated every day, while the individual stats are updated at least once a week. Win Shares will be updated every two-to-three weeks. JC has also updated his Projected OPS ratings, or PrOPS. Click the […]

Yes, 2005 Win Shares have arrived. You can view them, in a totally sortable format, in a specially formatted page. I’ll have more information during the week, but for now, go crazy!

I want to thank the many readers who sent me their comments on PrOPS. In response to these suggestions, I made two changes when I recalculated the metric. – I controlled for the speed of the players using speed scores. – I broke the metric out into three predictive components (PrAVE, PrOBP, and PrSLG). To […]

All of our stats and graphs have been updated to include yesterday’s games. You can find the team stats here and the individual player stats here. Plus, we’ve added each player’s 2005 PrOPS, as presented in today’s article by JC: – National League PrOPS – American League PrOPS