Category: Sports

Pardon My French

June 1st, 2009

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There's No Dancing In Baseball!

May 29th, 2009

Awesome link, DK: more »

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Moneyball, Anti-Moneyball

May 19th, 2009

Interesting WSJ sports articles Tuesday: Toronto Blue Jays: Toronto's Secret Strategy: Don't Pinch Hit Denver Nuggets: Textbook Management? Hardly. more »

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Thanks to DK for the link: Did Tipping Pitches Help Rodriguez and Others? Numbers Say No Using a fairly loose definition of high leverage as a L.I. above 1.5 and low leverage as below 0.7, the data provide a resounding answer: either no tipping was go… more »

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Capitalism In San Francisco

May 18th, 2009

Thanks to the Leb(R)ons for the link: Baseball Tickets Too Much? Check Back Tomorrow Each day, the calculation changes as starting pitchers are announced, team records change and tickets are sold, prompting the team to recalibrate prices. more »

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Mazel Tov

May 13th, 2009

Following up on previous iamyomets reporting: Hebrew "Boy Wonder" Hammer from my high school was named 2nd team all-Manhattan in basketball by the New York Daily News. Back for his senior year in 2010, then onto a Patriot League school near you? more »

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