Cards & Stats
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I have a new toy: a dataset of “balls hit in play” that consists of the types of batted balls—infield ground balls, outfield flies, infield popups, etc.—that I coaxed out of the hieroglyphics that constitute...
It had to be done.
Well, not really. But I did it because I’m still collecting examples of season-by-season trends in performance standard-deviations for the purpose of testing the Gould conjecture.
In...
So I thought it would be fun to start the year with another standardized “all-time best seasons,” this one focusing on fielding-independent pitching or FIP.
Before I get to the results, let me quickly...
Well, with reluctance and trepidation, I’ve pretty much concluded that Stephen Jay Gould’s (r)evolutionary conjecture on the variability of sports performances is wrong.
You might know (or if you have...
I noticed this pretty much by accident as I was examining something else, and I thought it was pretty interesting: Baseball Reference and FanGraphs obviously disagree about the value of the five best single-season...
Okay, so here’s another crazy one. Look!
See it? It’s another Gould-defying trend in a baseball-performance standard deviations!
I suppose it makes sense to start with what it’s the standard deviation...