... the nice set of articles outlining some of the major concepts of modern day Sabermetrics at FanHuddle: Glossary: part one, two and three. Runs created The value of walks ... also has several in depth player profiles, which are also very informative. If you are interesting in learning about Sabermetrics, from the bottom up, this is a very good place to start. Read more great baseball stuff at ...

What does clinical psychology have in common with Sabermetrics? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Click the title to read more. Read more great baseball stuff at The Hardball Times . The Hardball Times found this 96 minutes ago on hardballtimes.com Find more top sports news, videos, and blogs on BallHype: MLB

SABERMETRICS COMES TO SOCCER. I have posted several times, including here, about how statistical analysis has changed how we look at baseball (People who study this are called sabermatricians; Bill James pioneered the study; MONEYBALL by Michael Lewis was a great book about this statistical revolution). The weekend Financial Times (November 21/22) had an article by Simon Kuper about how soccer is ...

Sabermetrics system: Stats redefine award winners Tim Lincecum helped explain his second consecutive National League Cy Young Award, saying, “You can see where it’s taken a turn to complete numbers and stats and what people do with that. It puts more options in the voters’ heads.” Zack Greinke, his American League counterpart, is more specific. He introduces things called ...

Welcome to 'Duk's Dozen, a streamlined selection of 12 morning-fresh links and items to start your baseball day. It welcomes your email submissions and tips here or via Twitter. 1. Zack Greinke(notes) stays mindful of FIP during games, wins a Cy Young. NYT 2. He also delights and validates stats-minded folks everywhere. USS Mariner 3. Kansas Citians pause to savor a rare professional ...

Taking a page from the FJM handbook… What are your feelings about Sabermetrics? Do you pay attention to them, or are you still a believer in the traditional statistics? I keep up with the new statistics, but I’m not fond of some of the more popular newer ones. Well that’s defensible. I understand why he might be slow to take to stats like WAR, tRA, UZR, etc.; they can be confusing at ...

First, an announcement. I'm now contrbuting at Baseball Reflections. The gig is for more general baseball content, and is a weekly item. So far, there've been two articles, one on Jorge Posada, one on instant replay. Lots of good stuff over at the site. Stop by and take a look. I keep mulling over the Cy Young results. I've mentioned before I don't have an issue with who won ...

... ? Johnsie? After the jump, some rumors and catching up on course work for our sabermetrics course. Red Sox inquire about Holliday, A. Beltre, ... EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL!!! Runs Created: A First Step - Intro to Sabermetrics 101 Time to catch up on the lessons I haven' ... Weights: The Positive and Negative (Runs) - Intro to Sabermetrics 101 BaseRuns: The Ultimate in Run Estimation ...

... . He compares our way of understanding the religious world to the way baseball was understood before Sabermetrics. Serious baseball fans recognize that Lewis' book Moneyball "exposed a ... picture of the church, the world, and the people we are called to minister to? What would "Sabermetrics" for the Episcopal Church look like? Read the rest here. H/T to Bill ...

... : Advanced State Responsible For Lincecum’s Win Sabermetrics, the objective analysis of players through their advanced statistics, crept into ... of his team’s defense. USA Today: Sabermetrics System: Stats Redefine Award Winners Zack Greinke ... led his league in victories. “I’m a follower of sabermetrics,” Greinke said. “I didn’t know if the writers would just ...