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State of sabermetrics: Insights from the 2010 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference - Hardball Times

2010-03-11
Hardball TimesState of sabermetrics: Insights from the 2010 Sloan Sports Analytics ConferenceHardball TimesThe online sabermetric community is indeed the foundry for the analytics in modern baseball front offices. (Why else do they hire our best analysts? ...

Of Bradley, sabermetrics and D-Lee - Chicago Daily Herald (blog)

2010-03-10
Of Bradley, sabermetrics and D-LeeChicago Daily Herald (blog)On to sabermetrics. As you know, I'ma big fan of Baseball Prospectus, fangraphs.com, Baseball Reference and The Hardball Times. ...and more »

Phillies pitcher Happ would love to rattle sabermetricians | Philadelphia ... - Philadelphia Daily News

2010-03-03
phillyBurbs.comPhillies pitcher Happ would love to rattle sabermetricians | Philadelphia ...Philadelphia Daily NewsThe basic premise of sabermetrics - the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, as coined by well-known researcher and current Red Sox executive ...Happ is Example of Why FIP is UnreliableNew York Baseball DigestPhillies' Happ both lucky and awesomeESPN (blog)all 77 news articles »

Jonah Hill Replaces Demetri Martin In 'Moneyball' - MTV.com (blog)

2010-03-09
Collider.com (blog)Jonah Hill Replaces Demetri Martin In 'Moneyball'MTV.com (blog)... an assistant to Beane who helped implement "sabermetrics," which is a focus of the story. Apologies to you baseball-loving readers: I am not the best ...Jonah Hill Pitches MoneyballUGOall 30 news articles »

SB Nation's 2010 MLB Previews: Houston Astros, Fighting Perception - SB Nation (blog)

2010-03-11
SB Nation (blog)SB Nation's 2010 MLB Previews: Houston Astros, Fighting PerceptionSB Nation (blog)Certainly, Ed Wade will never be confused with a Bill James-ian GM who places a great deal of emphasis on sabermetrics, objective analysis and spreadsheets. ...and more »

From the geeks to the masses - The Crawfish Boxes (blog)

2010-03-10
From the geeks to the massesThe Crawfish Boxes (blog)My favorite example of how the message of sabermetrics is generally conveied is BPro's authoritative, Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know ...

Who will win the American League Central? - Around The Horn Baseball (blog)

2010-03-10
Who will win the American League Central?Around The Horn Baseball (blog)By Andrew Kneeland, Twins Target: "TwinsTarget provides commentary and analysis, with a side dish of sabermetrics and economics. An avid Twins fan, ...and more »

20 Questions With BDD's Andrea Betts - Baseball Daily Digest (blog)

2010-03-09
20 Questions With BDD's Andrea BettsBaseball Daily Digest (blog)Do you consider yourself a Sabermetrician and how can Sabermetricians and “traditional” baseball followers better communicate? I consider myself a student ...

Spring Postcard: Retooled Red Sox looking for balanced approach - SI.com

2010-03-11
Spring Postcard: Retooled Red Sox looking for balanced approachSI.comWe're baseball players. That's for the computer guys up in the booth who care about that. They say that because those guys are some of the best at their ...and more »

State of sabermetrics: Insights from the 2010 Sloan Sports ...

2010-03-11
So I left the conference feeling both re-energized and depressed about baseball analytics. There is a lot to be done, but I am not certain that today's practitioners of sabermetrics are the ones who will do it. ...

Sabermetric Research: Doesn't it make financial sense for teams to ...

2010-03-11
"John Dewan, of Baseball Info Solutions and pioneer of fielding statistics, said that his organization meets with lots of baseball teams, not just the sabermetric-friendly ones. He was candid in his assessment that some teams that he ...

Derek Bell Gets Pranked

2010-03-11
Mopupduty.com has been featured on ESPN.com, Deapspin.com, The Baseball Think Factory, Yahoo! Sports & the Chicago Tribune, amongst others. Rob Neyer - "Comparison of the two players is unlike anything I've seen. And I hope to see more. ...

Crash course in sabermetrics « Sittin' in the Catbird Seat

2010-03-05
On the Web site SocratED.com, Steve Slowinski gives us Introduction to Baseball Analysis and Sabermetrics. In seven chapters (and less than two hours), its a study of the state of the art of the analysis of baseball numbers from A to Z. ...

Fantasy Baseball: The Sabermetrics Library - FakeTeams

2010-02-22
Fantasy Baseball: The Sabermetrics Library. Img00031_1__tiny by Ray Guilfoyle on Feb 22, 2010 9:43 PM EST in Baseball Comment 0 comments. For those of you who want to know what a particular saber-stat means, the guys at Lookout Landing ...

From the geeks to the masses - The Crawfish Boxes

2010-03-10
My belief is that sabermetrics advocates should feel no need to proselytize other fans to view baseball through the sabermetrics lense. (I say this even though I am probably as guilty of this as anybody.) If other fans want to view ...

New (and Great) Sabermetric Resources | FanGraphs Baseball

2010-02-22
Appreciate the work put forth by these folks. Not just for our purposes, but for the next baseball fan yearning to take a dip into the sabermetrics' side of the pool but with no concept of where to begin. ...

Advanced Fantasy Baseball: Sabermetrics to Remain in Public Domain

2010-02-08
Members of the Baseball Writers Association of America and others who report on baseball refer to sabermetrics and its metrics on a regular basis. Recently James has said that sabermetrics is a “declaration of no ownership of knowledge. ...

A Theory on the Acceptance of Sabermetrics

2010-03-06
These comments have me wondering why casual baseball fans are so dismissive of Sabermetrics and the people who study them. I know the traditional claim is that people watch baseball for entertainment and don't want math to interfere ...

Jonah Hill Pitches Moneyball (UGO - UnderGroundOnline)

2010-03-09
Comedic actor enters the much tossed back and forth baseball drama. If you've followed its rocky development , yet another casting rumor concerning Moneyball seems almost like a non-story.

Sabermetrics gains ground with Cubs (Chicago Tribune)

2010-03-02
Ricketts said he expects organization to use statistical analysis more MESA, Ariz. — Sabermetrics once was considered a four-letter word in the Cubs organization, where scouting reports trumped statistical analysis almost every time.

Scientist Says He Figured Out Baseball's Winning Formula (NBC Connecticut)

2010-03-05
An Iowa State physicist has come up with a new formula that predicts which baseball teams will be winners.

BLOOMBERG SPORTSTM to Launch Fantasy Baseball Experts League (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

2010-03-04
NEW YORK----BLOOMBERG SPORTSTM BASEBALL has joined forces with Fantasy Sports Ventures, the world’s largest independent site for fantasy sports, to create the 2010 Bloomberg Challenge, a fantasy baseball expert’s league.

Iowa State physicist writes a better formula to predict baseball success (EurekAlert!)

2010-03-01
( Iowa State University ) Kerry Whisnant, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, will present a paper about his formula to predict baseball success to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston on March 6. Whisnant says his work in sabermetrics, the analysis of baseball statistics, is a hobby he'd love to turn into a part-time ...

Formula to predict baseball success (New Kerala)

2010-03-02
Nevada (US), Mar 2 : A Iowa State University physicist has come up with a formula to predict baseball success.

Physicist writes a better formula to predict baseball success (Science Daily)

2010-03-01
A physicist has developed a new formula to predict baseball success. The basic formula, which has been tweaked over the years, uses the number of runs scored per game (RPG) and runs given up per game to estimate a team's winning percentage.

Physicist Writes a Better Formula to Predict Baseball Success (Newswise)

2010-03-01
Kerry Whisnant, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, will present a paper about his formula to predict baseball success to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

Physicist writes a better formula to predict baseball success (PhysOrg)

2010-03-01
(PhysOrg.com) -- Kerry Whisnant, Iowa State University physicist, studies the mysteries of the neutrino, the elementary particle that usually passes right through ordinary matter such as baseballs and home-run sluggers.

I think I should utilize sabermetrics in my fantasy baseball league. Bill James is a badass

2010-03-09
I think I should utilize sabermetrics in my fantasy baseball league. Bill James is a badass

@aarongleeman You'll probably throw sabermetrics back at me proving me wrong, but I think closer is most overrated position in baseball.

2010-03-09
@aarongleeman You'll probably throw sabermetrics back at me proving me wrong, but I think closer is most overrated position in baseball.

A lengthy look at the state of #baseball and #basketball analysis. #sabermetrics http://bit.ly/awBgqN

2010-03-08
A lengthy look at the state of #baseball and #basketball analysis. #sabermetrics http://bit.ly/awBgqN

Sabermetrics 101 - A great series of short and easy to read articles that will make anyone a better baseball... http://tumblr.com/xue75xox9

2010-03-07
Sabermetrics 101 - A great series of short and easy to read articles that will make anyone a better baseball... http://tumblr.com/xue75xox9

A Theory on the Acceptance of Sabermetrics : Baseball Daily Digest http://cli.gs/0XgRW

2010-03-06
A Theory on the Acceptance of Sabermetrics : Baseball Daily Digest http://cli.gs/0XgRW

New #Baseball Entry: Crash course in sabermetrics http://baseballbloggersalliance.com/home/?p=2661

2010-03-05
New #Baseball Entry: Crash course in sabermetrics http://baseballbloggersalliance.com/home/?p=2661

A must see video for #baseball fans - Introduction to Baseball Analysis and #Sabermetrics Course - http://ow.ly/1eBDQ #MLB #Astros

2010-03-05
A must see video for #baseball fans - Introduction to Baseball Analysis and #Sabermetrics Course - http://ow.ly/1eBDQ #MLB #Astros

SocratED - Introduction to Baseball Analysis and Sabermetrics Course http://bit.ly/cN3rcY

2010-03-05
SocratED - Introduction to Baseball Analysis and Sabermetrics Course http://bit.ly/cN3rcY

Check out my first post on THT Live here http://bit.ly/9gcuK4 with a slight addendum on sabometrics! #MLB #sabermetrics #baseball

2010-03-04
Check out my first post on THT Live here http://bit.ly/9gcuK4 with a slight addendum on sabometrics! #MLB #sabermetrics #baseball