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Custom wOBA and Linear Weights Through 2010: Baseball Databank Data Dump 2.1
A rare photo of Tom Tango, seen here calculating linear weights. You know what wOBA is, right? If not, get hip to it. In short, wOBA (weighted On-Base Average) was created by Tom Tango as a way of more accurately expressing a player's offensive value (according to the linear...
Baseball Databank Data Dump, I: FIP Constants and Runs Per Win
Hi. I'm Matt. I write here (occasionally) now. Perhaps I could have picked something a bit more exciting for my first post, but I kept missing stuff, getting busy with other things, and so on. But I think this might be of utility to some people -- I know there were times I've wished I could easily...
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