One statistic that often I find missing from when talking about good offensive player is total bases. Total bases is the number of bases a player has gained with hits. It is weighted by 1 for a single, 2 for a double, 3 for a triple and 4 for a home run. The top 3 [...]
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NL: Total Bases Per At Bat Leaders
Posted in National League, Sabermetrics on February 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
300 Hitters: Good Contact + Walk Ability
Posted in National League, Sabermetrics on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Ron Shandler mantra says if you have make good contact at about 80% contact rate, and can work the count resulting in close to a 10% walk rate, that is where you find your 300 hitters. Lets test the hypothesis on 2008 NL data. Here is the Contact Rate, BB%, and the resulting average. [...]
MLB Quad 2008: TOB,TB,SLG,OBP Winners
Posted in Albert Pujols, American League, Cardinals, MLB, MVP, National League, RedSox, Sabermetrics on January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Quad takes into account both counting stats in Times on Base, and Total Bases and the rate stats in On Base Percentage, Slugging average. Below is the top 10 overall finishes in MLB over the course of the 2008 season (either American League or national League results). If a player makes it to the [...]
Quad 2008 On Base Percentage Rankings
Posted in American League, National League, Sabermetrics on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So far, we have rolled out the Times on Base , the Total Bases , and the SLUGGING part of the Quad for 2008. This will be the final piece of data in the Quad, the On Base Percentage. All these statistics were obtained using my new Sabermetrics tool . Again, the definition of the [...]
The Sluggers: Part 3 of Quad 2008
Posted in American League, National League, Sabermetrics on January 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So far, we have rolled out the Times on Base , and the Total Bases part of the quad. Today will be the Slugging statistics from 2008 using my new Sabermetrics tool . The Quad: the year-end leaders in the four categories (On Base Percentage, Slugging average, Times on Base, and Total Bases For the [...]
The Total Bases Part of Quad 2008
Posted in American League, National League, Sabermetrics on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So far, we have rolled out the Times on Base part of the quad. Today will be the Total Bases part out the Quad statistics from 2008 using my new Sabermetrics tool at TrophyLeague.com . The Quad: the year-end leaders in the four categories (On Base Percentage, Slugging average, Times on Base, and Total Bases [...]
The Times On Base Part of Quad 2008
Posted in American League, National League, Rotisserie, Sabermetrics on December 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This will be the start of rolling out the Quad statistics from 2008 using my new Sabermetrics tool at TrophyLeague.com . the year-end leaders in the four categories (On Base Percentage, Slugging average, Times on Base, and Total Bases For the next few days I will provide the rankings for the four quad categories. In [...]
Sabermetrics Tool
Posted in Around the Web, Sabermetrics on December 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been trying to find a way to practice my software skills. One of my favorite things to do is following sports, and in particular the sport I grew up on, which is baseball. I came across a pretty well established data model in regards to baseball, that appears generally available to use for [...]
Fantasy Baseball 1, MLB Baseball 0
Posted in Around the Web, Josh Hamilton, Rangers, Rays, Reds, Rotisserie, Sabermetrics on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just like all the other professional sports who have claimed they owned the events taking place on the field, you lose. In this PDF, it tells of how the Supreme Court rejects fantasy baseball dispute. Good day for the world of collaboration and sharing information. In other news, I heard a few items today on [...]
Brandon Webb Does It Again
Posted in American League, Around the Web, Cardinals, Cy Young, Diamondbacks, Josh Hamilton, MLB, National League, Pirates, Pitching, Rays, Reds, Sabermetrics on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a fitting tribute to the QS, Brandon Webb continues the Quality start steak going six innings with 0 ER and picks up the win to make it 6-0 on the season. Lets not forget who he was facing in Jake Peavy who also pitched a good game, but takes the loss. I told you [...]
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