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Okay. I’ve figured out the answer: park factors.
The question, of course, is what vaporized so much of the variance explained by FanGraphs’s runs-produced above average statistic (wRAA) when FG converted...
Nothing original here, just an interesting way to visualize it.
The “win value” of a run refers to how adding one affects the predicted number of wins at seasons end. The “rule of thumb” is that every...
Site’s first accepted paper–too bad the journal said “no” to including baseball cards…
Should be at your local news stand in month or so–but as a loyal site reader,...
So let’s continue our foray into estimating runs produced. I now want to examine what happens when schemes for measuring individual hitter run production get translated into offensive measures of WAR....
Nothing new—just another look at standardized run production, this time from the rate-statistic point of view of “runs produced above average per 100 PAs.” Top 100 (≥ 2500 PAs) in table below.
I...
So, I’ve been making good progress in my expedition to empirically test measures of batter runs produced. Here are the highlights, of which there are three.
1. I improved RP_aa–the runs produced...