Is Terry Francona the manager of the year?! As all 5,033,941 regular readers of this blog know, the mWAR manager-value estimator measures a manager’s contribution to his teams’ performances in “wins p...

Phew… That’s Shoeless Joe Jacks sliding in the middle panel of Hassan 1912 T202. I’m not going to get any closer than that! Now obviously this is just the post-1899 AL/NL .400 Club. Next project: The ...

For a sport that is approaching a state of analytic saturation, major league baseball is devoid of one seemingly critical metric: a manager-value estimator. Whe...

Here’s an in-progress HOF RC collection. It is certain to grow with new inductees. Beyond that, it’s hard to say. There are certain “grail” RCs that likely will never make it, including Mantle, Willia...

Geez—I really didn’t think I’d end up thinking and writing so much about starter variance! But here is instalment no. 4. You know the setup. The records of Mr. Reliable and Mr. Erratic illustrate how,...

As all 4,326,379 regular readers of this blog/journal know, I’m perplexed—haunted—by an anomaly in Gould’s conjecture. Gould’s conjecture is essentially that as a sport matures, differences in the per...

I’ve made it through draft 426 (or at least 6) of “Against Pythagorean Benchmarking”. . . . I think I feel good about it now; so am soliciting comments from those who will tell me I shouldn’t—pile on!...

So I’ve bee  knocking myself out for about 3 months revising & reworking a paper on Pythagorean Expectation Benchmarking—or PEB. PEB is the use of teams’ Pythagorean Expectation (PE) winning percentag...

Here is an unanticipated installment 3. We’re investigating the interesting claim that higher variance in game-by-game performance amplifies starting pitcher value—or at least sometimes does. So far w...

This is another in the continuing series on eFIP, an empirically grounded alternative to the conventional fixed-weight/ahistorical FIP (fielding-independent pitching) measure of pitching proficiency. ...

This is installment 2 on the question: Is inconsistency a starting-pitcher virtue? I’m sure everyone read installment 1. But remember, the idea is that holding mean runs allowed constant, a pitcher wh...