Our follow up article discussing how to model runs per inning by using the batters faced per inning model is live. In studying the statistics…
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BABIP – batting average on balls in play – is very different from many of the sports stats you’re used to seeing. Instead of trying…
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50 years ago, baseball got mathematical when Bill James started the Society for American Baseball Research and the sabermetrics revolution began. 15 years ago, Tom…
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Last week we prepared everyone for the 2021 MLB divisional round but now it is time to present our 2021 ALCS odds and NLCS odds.…
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The baseball playoffs are finally here which, to me, means model time! I’ve spent the last week or two developing a model to compute the…
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In Major League Baseball, arbitration is a process used to determine the salary of young players that are still under team control. Most simply, the…
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The National League playoff race is especially close this year. Currently, there are six teams fighting for four spots. The playoff scenarios this year are…
Check out this updated content in which we describe how to model the number of batters faced per inning using a mixture of negative binomial…
More than any other sport, baseball is a game of probabilities. Players go on hot streaks, cold streaks, and everything in between. Over the course…
Probably not. There is chatter about how this year’s stats are going to look crazy when taken out of context due to the shortened season.…