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I’m trying to calculate a net reclassification index (NRI) using the ‘nricens’ package.  I downloaded it from CRAN and tried to start using it.  However, I couldn’t quite get it to work and I kept getting strange errors.  So I went the documentation, and this just made me more confused because it seemed that the…

When the Biogenesis news hit during the offseason, anyone who follows sports should have been able to see what was coming. Essentially, PEDs in baseball elicit two responses – the moralizing type wherein the players involved are evil and the is-nothing-sacred type wherein heads shake at how sacred baseball numbers have been rendered meaningless. We get them…

Updated August 9, 2013 at 12:34 am. Yearly Production for a player is the approximate number of runs a team would score if the entire lineup consisted of the same player. Total Production is weighted by the number of plate appearances.   Rank Player Total Production Yearly Production 1 MiguelCabrera 1434 1666 2 MikeTrout 1196 1271…

Updated August 8, 2013 at 12:34am Total Prevention is a measure of runs prevented weighted by the number of batters they have faced (Higher is better). Yearly Expected ER  is approximately the expected number of runs that a team would allow is that pitcher pitched every inning of every game for a team (Lower is…

StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of August 8, 2013 at 2pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Detroit 1 ↑2 67-45 6 1 13 +144 Boston 2 – 70-46 1 2 9 +109 St. Louis  3 ↓2 66-47 5 8 25 +144 Tampa Bay 4 ↑3 66-47 4 3 7…

Nate Silver just finished his talk, and he’s currently taking questions via the twitter hashtag #jsm2013.  Here is a summary of the points of Nate Silver’s talk (thanks to Miles Ott (@Miles_Ott) for most of these): 1. Stats aren’t just numbers 2. Data requires context 3. Correlation does not equal causation 4. Mean is tops  5. Human…

  The room where Nate Silver is about to give his talk is packed.  I have never seen this many people at a talk at JSM. Cheers.  

Hey everyone! I’m back with another Ask Nick. The last Ask Nick was boring. Nothing worth my time to compose a thousand words in response to his banal and vapid thousand words. Also, don’t make the mistake of watching A Thousand Words. It’s awful. Like today’s Ask Nick! There are some ellipses to indicate where…

    Cheers.