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I feel like tornadoes have been everyone recently. I was driving home yesterday and I was listening to an NPR piece about the recent tornado in Oklahoma, and the broadcast was interrupted by a tornado warning for western MA/Northern CT/Eastern NY. Even though this warning happened to be no where near me, I’m…
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Here is an excerpt from the article “What’s the matter with Portland?” (Read the full article here) about the city’s refusal to fluoridate their water supply. “What is alarming to me … is that [fluoride includes] known contaminants … I don’t think it makes any sense to add more contaminants to our kids’ water.” She [Kellie Barnes,…
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Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: The greatest comebacks in post-2000 Boston sports history, ranked by a combination of estimated statistical improbability & game importance (postseason only). 1. Red Sox 2004 Series vs. NY Yankees: Win Probability, 0.0175 (1 in 60). This win probabilities accounts for Mariano Rivera as the Yankees closer (0.14 chance of the Sox…
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1902 – Two deaf-mutes face each other for the first time when Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants. The Reds win, 5 – 3, with a 5-run rally in the 9th. Hoy goes 2 for 4. –baseball-reference.com Wow.
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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 better). Pitcher Team Total Prevention…
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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. Player Total Production Yearly Production 1 MiguelCabrera 464 1452 2 JustinUpton 411 1347 3 JoeyVotto 405 1210 4 ChrisDavis 398 1401…
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I went to an R meetup last night at Smith College and Becky Sweger was there to talk about Hack for Western Mass. I will be attending, and I encourage anyone who is interested in this to attend. Here are the details: On the weekend of June 1-2, students, developers, designers, and local organizations will gather…
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Originally posted on R is my friend: Note: Please see the update to this blog! The best part about writing a dissertation is finding clever ways to procrastinate. The motivation for this blog comes from one of the more creative ways I’ve found to keep myself from writing. I’ve posted about data mining in the…
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Updated April 29, 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…
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Top 25 players Player Total Production Yearly Production 1 BryceHarper 337 1819 2 ChrisDavis 334 1783 3 JustinUpton 303 1604 4 Shin-SooChoo 284 1378 5 JoeyVotto 274 1211 6 MiguelCabrera 255 1274 7 PrinceFielder 246 1263 8 JedLowrie 239 1204 9 CarlosSantana 235 1672 10 DavidWright 234 1250 11 CocoCrisp 234 1149 12 RobinsonCano…
