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For You Rookies Here Some Baseball Analysis Theory The Games-Won Formula About the Team-Performance Table The “Quality of Pitching” Measure Fielding and Defense in Baseball Baseball Stat Definitions Baseball Data Normalization [scroll down for more links, or click the big “X” to exit]
Teams:
The Main Team-Performance Table Set By-Team Performance by Players & Pitchers
All-Teams Table: Win Expectations From Player Career Stats All-Teams Table: Defense [scroll up or down for more links, or click the big “X” to exit]
Position Players:
Sorted by Performance:
Sorted by Name:
In Performance Order by Position(s) Played, Current Season:
Alphabetically by Position(s) Played, Current Season:
In Performance Order by Position(s) Played, Career:
Alphabetically by Position(s) Played, Career:
Frequent-Use Position Players, by performance Frequent-Use Position Players, by name [scroll up or down for more links, or click the big “X” to exit]
Pitchers:
Sorted by Performance:
Sorted by Name:
In Performance Order by Role, Current Season:
Alphabetically by Role, Current Season:
In Performance Order by Role, Career:
Alphabetically by Role, Career:
Frequent-Use Starters and Relievers, by performance Frequent-Use Starters and Relievers, by name [scroll up or down for more links, or click the big “X” to exit]
Miscellaneous:
The Owlcroft Baseball-Analysis Formulae Tested The Owlcroft “TOP” Formula: Tabulated Data Calculating the Effects of Fielding on Wins Making Optimum Use of Players and Pitchers About Owlcroft Links About Eric Walker Links To A Select Few Other Useful Baseball Sites Steroids and Baseball [external site] The Juiced Ball [scroll up or down for more links, or click the big “X” to exit]
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About Buying Books On Line Some Selected Baseball Books [scroll up for more links, or click the big “X” to exit]
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On-Line Baseball-Related Material By, About, and Referring to Eric Walker
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Citing Eric Walker
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Afflictor :
“But How Can Someone Get A Job When You’re Unlocking The Secrets Of The Universe?”
Afflictor :
There Will Be An IT Coach At Some Point In The Dugout
Another Cubs Blog :
Getting bigger equals steroids use! [archived]
Athletics Nation :
Reviving Moneyball Play: Why I Hate The Sacrifice Bunt
Athletics Nation :
Billy Beane Visits AN: Offseason Edition Part III
Athletics nation :
Alderson and Beane
Athletics Nation :
Let’s Talk Lineups [archived]
Baseball America :
The Great Debate [archived]
The Baseball Chronicle :
The Once and Future Baseball Man
Baseball Crank :
BASEBALL: The Numbers Game [archived]
Baseball Fever :
History of Baseball Statistics & Sabermetrics
Baseball Minutia :
Those stats at the bottom of the screen [archived]
Baseball Prospectus :
Chat: Rany Jazayerli (skip down to Will Brown’s query) [archived]
Baseball Prospectus :
Prospectus Hit and Run: Having a Ball
Baseball Prospectus :
UTK Wrap
Baseball Prospectus :
The Class of 2011: Bagwell and Baggage [archived]
Baseball Prospectus :
Prospectus Hit and Run: Sandy’s The Man
Beyond the Box Score :
Evaluating Sandy Alderson’s baseball legacy [archived]
Big Bad Baseball :
Tales of Two-Dimensionality: The Decline of the Walkman
Chartered Quality Institute :
Playing with numbers [archived]
The Cheap Seats :
The man behind the man behind Moneyball [archived]
A Citizen’s Blog :
On Hitting: The Season in Review, 2007 [archived]
A Citizen’s Blog :
Glove Week!, Part I: Fielding Then and Now [archived]
CBS Sports :
How the Oakland A’s shaped modern baseball: 56-year run defined by Rickey Henderson, ‘Moneyball’ and much more
Dan Agonistes :
The Numbers Game
Dan Agonistes :
The Luck of the Single
The Dan Greene: The Blog :
Buzz Bissinger: Author, Shitpisser, Misconstrued Luddite [archived]
Doc’s Books :
Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets, by Steve Kettmann
Ducksnorts :
Chatting With Sandy Alderson (Part 1) [archived]
ESPN :
Alan Schwarz Chat [archived]
ESPN :
Sabermetricians slowly being added to the inner circle [archived]
ESPN :
Memorable missteps [archived]
ESPN :
Sandy Alderson in-depth
ESPN UK :
A numbers revolution
FanGraphs :
JAWS and the 2020 Hall of Fame Ballot: Jason Giambi
Friar Forecast :
Statheads in the front office [archived]
Futility Infielder :
Stat Crazy After All These_Years: The Numbers Game [archived]
Instagram :
Montclair Baseball
Instagram :
stevenikorak
Japan Ball :
“Chatter Up!” with Baseball Renaissance Man Sandy Alderson
Just A Bit Outside (Rob Neyer) :
Slowing the unabated #StrikeoutScourge [archived]
Knowledge@Wharton (Wharton University) :
Sandy Alderson on the Modern Business of Baseball
Langsam Stevens & Silver: Review of “Moneyball” :
What Is Moneyball Really About? [archived]
Marinerds, Etc. :
The Numbers Game
Marty Andrade :
Fielding in Baseball
The Mathematical Association of America: Devlin’s Angle :
A game of numbers [archived]
Mets Merized Online :
Hardball With Baseball Maverick Author Steve Kettmann [archived]
Misc. Baseball :
A Timeline of the Sabermetrics Revolution
MLB :
Q&A: Alderson’s thoughts on analytics
NetShrine :
Alan Schwarz - The Numbers Game [archived]
Instagram :
Montclair Baseball
New Jersey On-Line :
Mets hitting coach Dave Hudgens preaches narrowed pitch selection in quest to reach base
New York Daily News :
Book excerpt: Sandy Alderson, subject of ‘Baseball Maverick’ about Mets GM
The New York Times :
Thinking Outside the Box Score (copy; original behind a paywall)
Over the Baggy :
Planning for Next Year [archived]
The Paris Review :
This Week’s Reading: Staff Picks
Planet of Success :
60 Awesome Baseball Quotes
Politics and Prosperity :
Pseudoscience, “Moneyball,” and Luck
Raising Matt Cain :
In A Pinch, Panik
Sabermetrico :
History of Sabermetrics [original in Spanish: link is to Google-translated English-language page]
SABR: By the Numbers :
A Closer Look at the OBP/SLG Ratio (PDF file: article starts on page 10)
Sports Illustrated :
Despite steroid scandals, retiring Giambi rebuilt his reputation
Transtutors :
Aerospace engineer turned baseball writer Eric Walker writes that the most important statistic for a baseball player is “on-base percentage”
University of Tennessee, Haslam College of Business :
Moneyball and Business Analytics [archived]
Voros McCracken :
A.J. Pierzynski and Erik Kratz Think Analytics Guys Like Me Have Feelings
Walk Like a Sabermetrician :
Power Factor
WCBS NewsRaido :
Remembering the Days of Strat-O-Matic [archived]
WebCircle :
Baseball Quote of the Day
The Whiz Kid’s Baseball Wisdom :
The 15 Greatest Baseball Books
Wikipedia :
Earnshaw Cook
World Affairs Board :
Did Roger Maris Use Steroids? [archived]
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