In this first part of a two-part series, Noah Sherman uses theory from "The Book" by Tom Tango et al. to explain how optimizing lineup order can help baseball teams win more games and maybe even capture the pennant.
Some wacky ideas for how the Philadelphia Phillies should set their batting order versus the New York Yankees in the 2009 World Series that Charlie Manual will definitely adopt.
What would be the best batting order for the New York Yankees in the 2009 World Series?
Yet another installment in an intermittent series of articles optimizing the batting orders or teams with bad offenses. This article takes on the revamped lineup of the San Francisco Giants as they make a push for the playoffs.
An optimized batting order only gains a team 5 to 15 runs a year, but to buy those marginal runs on the current free agent market usually costs a team from two to seven million dollars. This is the third post in an occasional series going through some of those bad 2009 offenses and optimizing their batting orders. This article deals with the 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates.
An optimized batting order only gains a team 5 to 15 runs a year, but to buy those marginal runs on the current free agent market usually costs a team from two to seven million dollars. This is the second post in an occasional series going through some of those bad 2009 offenses and optimizing their batting orders. This article deals with the 2009 San Diego Padres
This article discusses how to estimate a player's true platoon skill in accordance with Dolphin, Litchman, and Tango's work on the subject, and takes 10 hitters and tries to estimate their platoon skill going forward with the goal of revisiting their 2009 results after trhe season.
An optimized batting order only gains a team 5 to 15 runs a year, but the teams with some the worst offenses in baseball need all the help the can get. This is the first post in an occasional series going through some of those bad 2009 offenses and optimizing their batting orders. First up: the Kansas City Royals.
