Annnnnnnnd…we’re back. I really have no lead in, other than to say that as much as basketball pundits like to glorify offense, and players who score 25+ PPG, the most important work is done on the defensive end of the floor. I’m no NBA aficionado, but I can tell you that last year’s national title [...]
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Wait…this isn’t a baseball stat? Oh well, if Spence can mock the Big 12, then I can put up college hockey stats. Seriously, the World Series when your team isn’t in it has to be the worst time of the year. Fear not though, intrepid reader, today we have an MLJ stat straight from the [...]
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I’ll admit it…I’m a crotchety old Big 10 guy who likes things called “defense” and “a running game” and really could care less about some douchebag throwing the ball 35 times per game for 5 TD’s. In my mind, there’s nothing more impressive than seeing a team hold the ball for 20 minutes more than [...]
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I’m fucking pissed the hell off right now, so I’m going to make this relatively brief. I saw this cool article, the one pleasurable thing that has kept me from going on a shooting spree, and thought I’d share it with you all.
And don’t say I never do anything for you.
Basically, all it is is [...]
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We’re starting off the week strong here. Today’s stat of the day is MLVr. MLV stands for Marginal Lineup Value, and it measures offensive production above that of an average hitter. To explain further, imagine a theoretical lineup of 9 exactly average hitters. Now replace one hitter with the one we want to measure, say [...]
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Now if you thought saves were an important stat, have we got a treat for you. Today’s stat is the most important in all of baseball. What is baseball about? Scoring runs of course. How do you do that? With RBIs. Adam Dunn is a shitty baseball player cause he always takes pitches and walks [...]
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Sabermetrics is slowly but surely making its way into mainstream baseball. A lot of the stats talked about nowdays on ESPN that are supposedly Sabermetric are much better than, say batting average and RBI, but still have a long way to go. One such statistic is OPS. Adding OBP and slugging percentage together is a [...]
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