Category: Sports
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 11, 2012 at 12:18pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Texas 1 – 83-57 2 1 11 +116 NYY 2 – 79-61 8 3 5 +92 Tampa Bay 3 – 77-63 9 5 7 +78 Washington 4 ↑1 87-54 1 4 25 +132…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of September 11, 2012 at 12:18pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record Prob of making playoffs SOS Run Diff Texas 1 – 83-57 94-68 99.4% 11 +116 NYY 2 – 79-61 90-72 87.4% 5 +92 Tampa Bay 3 – 77-63 88-74 46.4% 7 +78 Washington 4 ↑1 87-54…
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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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Week 1 (11-5 SU, 9-7 ATS, 8-8 O/U) Wednesday @8:30pm Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants Prediction: Dallas wins 24-23 Pick: Cowboys +3.5 O/U: Over 47 Sunday @1pm Indianapolis Colts at Chicago Bears Prediction: Indianapolis wins 22-21 Pick: Colts +10 O/U: Over 41.5 Philadelphia Eagles at Cleveland Browns Prediction: Eagles win 24-16 Pick: Eagles -8.5 O/U:…
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Season Preview It’s almost here! Another season of grown men smashing their brains together for our entertainment. And entertained we will be. So, let’s start at the end: which teams are most likely to be suffering life-lengthening (Not really) massive head injuries in February 2013 in New Orleans? I’m once again making a not so bold prediction…
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It seems I can’t stop writing about Bill Barnwell (here, here, and here) and his article, Mere Mortals, which presents “evidence” that baseball players who played during the years 1959 through 1988 have a higher mortality rate than football players. it seemed immediately obvious to me when I read the article that the two groups…
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Bill Barnwell demonstrated what many are calling a stunning result when he showed that the mortality rate of baseball players was actually higher than that of football players who played at least five seasons during the years 1959 through 1988. How can this be explained? Especially with all of the recent news about head injuries…
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