My posts have gotten pretty sporadic (…again, sadly), and I’ll once again play the “lotta’ stuff goin’ on” card. Fortunately, it’s mostly fun stuff, but it does mean I’ve got a couple of posts written in my head that haven’t yet gotten digitized and up on the interweb. This post …
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I’ve had this post half-written for a few days, but it became more timely last night when Mark Buehrle pitched a perfect game for the Chicago White Sox, so it just became a “finish it up over lunch” priority. I’ve got my own little baseball-related accomplishment that I added to my …
I’ve written about baseball before, and I’ll do it again. My local paper, The Columbus Dispatch, had a Sunday Sports cover page two weekends ago titled Going Deeper – Baseball traditionalists make way for a new kind of statistician, one who looks beyond batting averages and homers and praises players’ …
In Part I, I took a run at assessing a couple of the most popular baseball statics to see how they measured up as well-formed performance metrics. The other thought that has been running through my mind as I’ve been scoring my son’s baseball games has to do with data …
It’s late spring, and my 9-year-old’s baseball season is getting rolling. Due to my gross lack of eye-hand coordination, I volunteered to do the scoring for the team. There are two basic reasons to score a baseball game: Capture enough information on a single page (two pages, actually) that would …