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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April 30, 2012 at 2pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Boston 1 ↑5 18-7 3 1 17 +40 Colorado 2 ↑1 16-10 9 3 18 +29 St. Louis 3 ↓1 14-11 4 6 13 +23 Baltimore 4 ↑7 15-11 5 7 11 +21…
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A Harvard professor has re-identified the names of more than 40% of a sample of anonymous participants in a high-profile DNA study, highlighting the dangers that ever greater amounts of personal data available in the Internet era could unravel personal secrets. Read the whole story here. Also, why not check out how unique your birthdate,…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April 24, 2012 at 12pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Atlanta 1 – 15-5 1 1 19 +42 St. Louis 2 ↑4 12-8 9 2 8 +25 Colorado 3 – 13-7 8 3 14 +19 Cincinnati 4 ↑10 12-9 10 12 9 +31…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April 17, 2012 at 5pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Atlanta 1 ↑1 12-2 1 1 13 +42 SF 2 ↑1 9-5 4 5 7 +5 Colorado 3 ↑4 10-4 19 6 8 +18 Oakland 4 ↓3 11-4 2 9 30 +31 Arizona…
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Rank Pitcher Team Prevention 1 WandyRodriguez PIT 108 2 DanStraily OAK 121 3 ClaytonKershaw LAD 136 4 YuDarvish TEX 140 5 JoseFernandez MIA 148 6 MattHarvey NYM 154 7 ZackGreinke LAD 159 8 JohnLannan PHI 172 9 PaulMaholm ATL 185 10 JustinMasterson CLE 205 11 CliffLee PHI 218 12 JeffSamardzija CHC 236 13 AnibalSanchez…
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Through April 17 at 12:34 am. Rank Player Production 1 CarlosSantana 3622 2 PrinceFielder 2864 3 SethSmith 2571 4 JoeyVotto 2317 5 ChrisDavis 2207 6 JustinUpton 1937 7 LanceBerkman 1913 8 JedLowrie 1694 9 JeanSegura 1558 10 AdrianGonzalez 1550 11 CocoCrisp 1526 12 EvanGattis 1521 13 DexterFowler 1494 14 LucasDuda 1480 15 DanielMurphy 1475…
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StatsInTheWild MLB rankings as of April 12, 2012 at 8:15am. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Run Diff Oakland 1 – 8-2 9 3 30 +33 Atlanta 2 – 8-1 2 1 16 +26 SF 3 – 7-3 5 2 7 +4 St. Louis 4 – 5-4 14 5 22 +18…
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Hello SitW readers. I’m Tim. I like baseball and I don’t like people who are willfully ignorant. Which would lead a reasonable person why I read the “Ask Nick” column on boston.com’s Extra Bases blog. I’d provide a link to the archive, except the brilliance of the website operated by the 25th most widely circulated…
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Last year my first round submission to Stat Geek Idol was “Predicting the Sweet Sixteen with a Classification Tree.” My two big suggestions were to 1.) not get overly excited about Florida State or Michigan and 2.) the 14 seeds looked good. Looking back, neither Florida State nor Michigan made it to the Sweet Sixteen,…
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Here is the bracket that I projected on March 5th and here is the updated bracket from March 11th. Also, for your viewing pleasure, here are my projected tournament seeds and my my full rankings as of today at noon. Some notes Louisville moves up to a 1 seed, and Indiana drops to a 2. Pittsburgh drops from a 2…
