Category: Baseball
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Dave Cameron over at FanGraphs wrote an interesting article about 2012 payroll and wins. In it, he used a scatterplot, which I assume was made with excel. I’d like to try to persuade everyone to stop making graphics in excel. I’m probably a little bit biased, but R with the ggplot2 package is much, much better.…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 4, 2012 at 12:18pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record Prob of making playoffs SOS Run Diff Texas 1 ↑1 80-54 95-67 99.3% 11 +121 NYY 2 ↓1 76-58 90-72 87.4% 6 +86 Tampa Bay 3 – 74-61 87-75 43.4% 7 +78 Oakland 4 ↑1 76-58 89-73…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 4, 2012 at 12:18pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Texas 1 ↑1 80-54 3 1 11 +121 NYY 2 ↓1 76-58 4 3 6 +86 Tampa Bay 3 – 74-61 9 5 7 +78 Oakland 4 ↑1 76-58 5 2 8 +79…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of August 20, 2012 at 12:18pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 75-50 4 1 4 +102 Texas 2 – 71-50 5 3 13 +89 Tampa Bay 3 ↑6 68-54 7 4 5 +69 Washington 4 – 76-46 1 2 23 +109…
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Grantland recently published this article, Mere Mortals, which claims that: Baseball players who accrued at least five qualifying seasons from 1959 through 1988 died at a higher rate than similarly experienced football players from the same time frame. The difference between the two is statistically significant6and allows us to reject the null hypothesis; there is a…
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Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners just threw the third perfect game of the season, so I figured it was a good time to update my low hit games graphs that I posted in June. So, here they are: Cheers.
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of August 6, 2012 at 8:17pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 63-44 3 1 5 +92 Texas 2 – 63-44 4 2 13 +83 LA Angels 3 – 58-51 9 6 7 +49 Washington 4 ↑2 65-43 2 4 23 +82…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of August 6, 2012 at 8:17pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 – 63-44 3 1 5 +92 Texas 2 – 63-44 4 2 13 +83 LA Angels 3 – 58-51 9 6 7 +49 Washington 4 ↑2 65-43 2 4 23 +82…
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Cheers.
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of July 9, 2012 at 1:22pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff NYY 1 ↑1 52-33 1 1 4 +65 Texas 2 ↓1 52-34 2 2 13 +79 LA Angels 3 ↑1 48-38 4 4 11 +44 ChiSox 4 ↑2 47-38 6 5 14 +63…
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