Vote for the 2016 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards!

The good folks at the Society of American Baseball Research have chosen the finalists for their 2016 Analytic Conference Research Awards. The Hardball Times is once again flattered to have the most pieces nominated, and also be the only blog with nominees in each category. It speaks to the great writers we have here at THT, and hopefully the future will bring more of the same.

Because SABR believes in democracy, they gave you the power to select the nominees, and have now given you the power to choose the winners. What follows is a script written entirely be SABR, which I have pasted verbatim. At the bottom, you have your chance to vote. There is also a link optimized for mobile users. As always, do not feel any pressure to vote for THT pieces, all of the nominated pieces are excellent!

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Here’s your chance to vote for the 2016 SABR Analytics Conference Research Award winners.

The SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards will recognize baseball researchers who have completed the best work of original analysis or commentary during the preceding calendar year. Nominations were solicited by representatives from SABR, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, The Hardball Times, and Beyond the Box Score.

To read any of the finalists, click on the link below. Scroll down to cast your vote.

Contemporary Baseball Analysis

• Benjamin S. Baumer, Shane T. Jensen, Gregory J. Matthews, “OpenWAR: An Open Source System for Evaluating Overall Player Performance in Major League Baseball,” Journal of Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 11, Issue 2, June 2015.
• Jonathan Judge, Harry Pavlidis, and Dan Turkenkopf. “Introducing Deserved Runs Average — And All Its Friends,” Baseball Prospectus, April 29, 2015.
• Ben Lindbergh, “Among the Power Pitchers: Does Kansas City’s Contact-Heavy Approach Give the Royals a Postseason Edge?” Grantland, October 20, 2015.
• Jeff Sullivan, “So You Want An Edge Against Mike Trout,” FanGraphs, August 27, 2015.
• Jeff Zimmerman, “Velocity’s Relationship with Pitcher Arm Injuries,” The Hardball Times, April 22, 2015.

Contemporary Baseball Commentary

• Alexis Brudnicki, “I’m Different. I’m the Same.” The Hardball Times, November 18, 2015.
• Nathaniel Grow, “The MLBPA Has A Problem,” FanGraphs, March 30, 2015.
• Dan Rosenheck, “Spring Forward,” The Economist, March 4, 2015.
• Meg Rowley, “Post-Moneyball’s Clubability,” Baseball Prospectus, November 4, 2015.
• Eno Sarris, “Joey Votto on Aging,” FanGraphs, September 22, 2015.

Historical Analysis/Commentary

• Adam Darowski, “The Standards of Today Would Create a Very Different Hall of Fame,” The Hardball Times, December 18, 2015.
• Jason Foster, “How One Pitch Might Have Sent John Smoltz on a Path to the Hall of Fame,” The Sporting News, July 24, 2015.
• Bryan Grosnick, “Jason Giambi, Patron Saint of the ’00s,” Beyond the Box Score, February 17, 2015.
• John McMurray, “Examining Stolen Base Trends by Decade from the Deadball Era through the 1970s,” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2015.
• Alex Remington, “Anniversary of a Myth: The Knickerbockers’ Most Famous Game,” The Hardball Times, June 19, 2015.

Voting will be open through 11:59 p.m. MST on Monday, February 15, 2016. Details and criteria for each category can be found here. Only one work per author was considered as a finalist.

 

 

 

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Results will be announced and presented at the fifth annual SABR Analytics Conference, March 10-12, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona. Learn more or register for the conference at SABR.org/analytics.