Cards & Stats
We use cool baseball cards to illuminate the history and illustrate the statistical analysis of Major League Baseball!
It’s way past time to move on–I know, I know!
But I wanted to add just one more piece to the fielding-measurement picture: the performance of Ultimate Zone Rating, or UZR.
I realize now that what...
Everyone knows (and is correct to believe) that Brooks Robinson is the greatest fielding third baseman ever. But how should all the other major leaguers who’ve manned the hot corner be ranked in fielding...
I really like OPS. Proposed by John Thorn and Pete Palmer in 1984, it’s still the best indicator of batter run productivity that anyone has devised.
At the risk of poisoning this blog with a lethal dose...
I’m interested in pitching evaluation metrics (who isn’t?!). Recently, I’ve been trying to understand what drove differences in pitcher proficiency throughout most of the twentieth century. We know that...
Argh, I’m just stymied!
I’ve been sucked into the BABIP—batting average for balls in play—rabbit hole.
At any period in big league history, variation in BABIP and oBABIP (opponent batting average for balls...
No, wOBA is not a delicious type of sushi. It is a hitting-production metric that is supposed to be better than OPS and that figures in the calculation of WAR.
I thought this post was going to invovle...