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John Dewan's Stat of the Week
Who Will Be The Best Defenders In 2014?
March 11, 2014 For the last few years, Baseball Info Solutions has produced defensive projections for the ensuing season. The projections are determined using each player's three-year Defensive Runs Saved totals and prorating them over the number of defensive innings we expect him to play in 2014. So let's take a look at who the projections [...]
Sochi Olympics - Dominant Countries
February 25, 2014 The home country in the Olympics always performs better than they usually do when they are not hosting, and that stayed true in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as Russia led all nations with a total of 33 medals. The United States finished second with 28. But the [...]
United States on Track for Most Olympic Medals
February 17, 2014 Right now the Netherlands has the most medals in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. They have 17 medals, followed closely by Russia and the United States with 16. The Dutch have amassed 16 of those medals in long track speed skating, the highest total of [...]
Sochi Predictions
February 10, 2014 The Winter Games are off and running. Last week, working with the Wall Street Journal, we predicted that Norway would win the most medals (Wall Street Journal Projections). Here are the top five countries by projected medal count: [...]
Super Bowl Predictor System
January 30, 2014 After correctly predicting the Super Bowl winner 90 percent of the time over a 20-year period, the Super Bowl Predictor System is ready for mothballs. Why is that? Just like many of you, I am a fan of a specific team. I haven’t missed a Chicago Bears game since the start [...]
Throwing Strikes
January 20, 2014 Several of 2013’s superlative pitching performances came from pitchers who had exceptional control. Koji Uehara was fourth in line to be the Red Sox closer when the year started, but he ended up with the best ERA (1.09) of all qualified relievers. He had just seven unintentional [...]
Cannon Arms in 2013
January 10, 2014 So much of the current star power in baseball is in the outfield, where phenoms like Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, and Yasiel Puig routinely amaze with their spectacular play. However, there are some equally exciting but less-heralded players who make some tremendous contributions to winning. In 2013 [...]
Teams that Best Controlled the Running Game
December 30, 2013 As a part of the Baseball Info Solutions defensive metrics, we estimate the number of runs that pitchers and catchers are able to save for their teams by controlling the running game. We divide up the credit for each stolen base and each caught stealing by looking at the pitcher/catcher battery and their [...]
Opponent OPS and the Cy Young Award
December 20, 2013 In recent years, the Cy Young voters have clearly considered advanced metrics in making their decisions. Look no further than 2010, when Felix Hernandez won the award in the AL despite a pedestrian 13-12 won-loss record. However, voters still seem to put weight on factors outside of [...]
The Flat Bat Award 2013
December 09, 2013 Erick Aybar has won three of the last four Flat Bat Awards, but after his down season that featured only nine sacrifice bunt attempts and a .333 average on bunt-for-hit attempts, the contest is wide open for 2013. To narrow the field, we will first look at which players [...]