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baseball statistical theory

* Holy Baseball!

January 22, 2009

This article appeared in the Jan. 22 edition of the New Jersey Jewish News: *** In 2003, Martin Abramowitz created JewishMajorLeaguers.org with the “mission” to create a set of cards that included every “member of the tribe” to play big-league baseball. To mix sports metaphors, Howard Megdal has taken this idea and run with it. […]

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* Review: The Bill James Handbook 2009

December 23, 2008

From those great folks at TheBaseballAnalysts, part one of a multi-part deconstruction of the James’ essential.

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* RK Review: The Bill James Handbook 2009

November 22, 2008

Joe Posnanski’s great column on SI.com about which statistics are the best indicators of baseball talent reminded me that I was going to do a review of the 2009 Bill James Handbook. I must admit, I don’t make a habit of reading books of this type. I always enjoyed the Total Baseball books or the […]

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* 'Freak' me out

June 20, 2008

One of my favorite blogs is Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt on The New York Times‘ Web site. So imagine my glee when I found several baseball-related items, treated with the hosts’ usual thought-provoking and humorous style: Since the beginning of 2008, the columns include: Baseball Writers Are A Rare Breed: […]

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* The WSJ's Numbers Guy on…well, numbers

May 12, 2008

In his May 8 column, Carl Bialik, aka, The Numbers Guy, offers “a reading list of articles about sports numbers, from the true distance of legendary home runs to a formula for measuring the chance of a basketball comeback.” The baseball portion of the piece includes: 565: The number of feet Mickey Mantle’s home run […]

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* Get your Bill James Freak-on (omics)

April 2, 2008

I’ve never been one for the science of economics. Markets, demand, supply, agriculture…all beyond my limited mental capacity. However, I did love Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. It opens a lot or doors for thinking about things that one would not associate with economics (Which is more dangerous: a gun or […]

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