By Sam Waters Playing time projections are a key component of forecasting MLB player performance. There are two factors that influence playing time, skill and opportunity. A playerâs âplaying time skillâ is how often he is...
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By Sam Waters Measurements of player value like WAR lean heavily on the concept of the replacement level player. Subtracting replacement level production from a given playerâs production allows us to estimate that playerâs...
By Julian Ryan and Barrett Hansen To this unbiased observer, European soccer has unequivocally the fairest system when it comes to deciding a league champion: by the end of the season, each team has played all the others both at...
HSAC member Oliver Kim analyzed Ike Davis’s career over at Gammons Daily. A quick tease to whet your appetite… “On Saturday, the Metsâ sometimes-first baseman Ike Davis strained his oblique, potentially ending...
It’s been a while since our last set of links, but we’re back in force to bring you the best reads from around the web for your weekend reading. – Jeff Sullivan analyzes Justin Verlander’s $180 million...
By Harry Chiel Every so often, a playoff series in the NHL, MLB, or NBA will be fought between a team that has just come off of a sweep and a team that has barely survived a competitive 7-game series. Â While the latter team is...
by Theo Gerome Another player hit a milestone home run over the weekend. Adam Dunn became the third player this season to hit his 400th career home run on Saturday night. So this is a good time to look at Dunnâs Hall of Fame...
by Ben Blatt A version of this post can be read in the Wall Street Journal here. Like all sports rivalries, picking a side in the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry is almost entirely geographic. Everyone knows as you drive through the...
by Theo Gerome This post can also be seen at Hot Corner Harbor here. July brings with it the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and Barry Larkin, a more-than-worthy player, finally saw his name added to Cooperstown yesterday. With...
by Theo Gerome This post can also be seen at Hot Corner Harbor here. It seems like an eternity ago that we had the 2012 Hall of Fame elections, but this weekend, Barry Larkin and Ron Santo will finally be inducted into the...