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2010 Barking Carnival All-Big 12 Baseball Teams
That's right, the first annual Barking Carnival All-Big 12 Baseball Teams. I could have let the fact that I haven't watched any Big 12 games not involving Texas this year bother me, but what's the fun in that? And, much more importantly, letting that stop me would have gone against baseball...
Big 12 Win Shares through 5/16
If you haven't already, read my previous post on Texas win shares in order to understand where I started from. Now, as it turns out it didn't take nearly as long to run these as I thought it would. All individual stats are available on Big12Sports.com, so that took care of the data acquisition...
Texas Baseball Win Shares - Big 12 Play
My latest random project idea was to calculate college baseball win shares. Unfortunately there are a large number of big obstacles between here and there, not the least of which is lack of available data. Another major roadblock is the unbalanced schedules played by every team. Win shares, and...
Advanced Stats in Basketball
Four months ago I put together an advanced stats primer and have been using stats like DREB%, dMULT and WS in my posts ever since. However; I still get the feeling most readers either don't understand advanced statistics, enjoy advanced statistics, or both. Advanced stats have their flaws and are...
Win Shares According to Plus/Minus
Now that the season is wrapped up and we're pretty much done picking through the wreckage of the NCAA tournament, I wanted to look back at the season as a whole and the production of individual players. If we can ignore the last game, the season was a great one for Kansas basketball. Ranked #1...
Is the Craig Biggio the 35th Greatest Player Ever?
I have been doing some work on Negro League history and was looking at the all time rankings in the last Bill James's Historical Abstract. I saw Craig Biggio ranked as the 35th greatest player of all time using his formula of peak years, total production and other intangibles. Bill...
Using Win Shares to Guesstimate WAR
Since Rally has released his historic WAR values for the Retrosheet period (pitcher data from 1953 to current and hitter data from1955 to current) there has been many comparisons of players. The comparisons have been limited to only players that started their career after 1953/1955 due to...
Saberizing a Mac #3: Adding Win Shares & Other Data to the BDB
Based on the lack of comments in the previous post, I'm going to guess people had no trouble installing the Baseball Databank database. If you did, feel free to ask questions in the comments of that post. To follow the process I personally used to get it done, read this comment. All Saberizing a...
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