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John Dewan's Stat of the Week
The Rise Of Outfield Shifts
By Mark Simon This offseason there was a lot of talk about the possibility of banning infield shifts, though that has yet to happen. It should be noted that teams aren’t just getting creative with their infield positioning these days, they’re also doing unusual things with their outfield positioning. BIS defines an outfield shift as when the [...]
Stat of the Week: How Good is Kyler Murray?
Last week’s Stat of the Week covered the SIS rankings and stats for the top players available in this year’s [...]
Stat of the Week: NFL Draft Top Prospects
With the football season over, it's time to shift attention to the future and the upcoming NFL Draft. In recent years SIS has tracked NFL and FBS games in a [...]
Stat of the Week: Previewing the Super Bowl Offenses
There are expectations that Super Bowl LIII between the Patriots and Rams will be a high-scoring contest. The Rams ranked second in the NFL in points scored during the regular season. The Patriots ranked fourth. With that in mind, here’s a look at keys to the offenses in this game for each team.Patriots offensive key: [...]
Congratulations to Bill James and Rob Neyer!
My good friends, Bill James and Rob Neyer, both received great recognition for their work recently.I have known Bill for the last 35 years. When I first read his work in the Baseball Abstract series way back then, it hit me. Bill was doing the exact kind of work with baseball numbers that I was [...]
Stat of the Week: Active Players on a Hall of Fame Path
With this year’s Hall of Fame class announced, here’s a look at which active players have cleared the bar of Bill James’ Hall of Fame Value Standard. As a reminder, a player’s Hall of Fame Value (HOF-V) is his Win Shares plus four times his Baseball-Reference Wins Above Replacement (WAR). The standard for Hall of Fame [...]
Stat of the Week: The Hall of Fame Value Standard Part II
Last week's Stat of the Week looked at Bill James’ newest creation, the Hall of Fame Value Standard (HOF-V), and how it analyzes the worthiness of some of the debatable position player candidates on this year’s Hall of Fame ballot. To supplement that, here’s a look at the pitcher candidates of a similar debatable status. As [...]
Cody Parkey and the Chicago Bears' Kicking Woes
During the 2015 NFL season, Bears kicker Robbie Gould missed six field goals, which was the most since his rookie season. Right before the 2016 season, the Bears decided to move on from [...]
Stat of the Week: The Hall of Fame Value Standard
In the 2019 Bill James Baseball Handbook, Bill introduced a new stat meant to evaluate worthiness for induction to Cooperstown. He’s called it The Hall of Fame Value Standard. The Hall of Fame Value Standard (HOF-V) combines two statistics that assess player value -- Win Shares and Baseball-Reference.com Wins Above Replacement (the latter is multiplied by [...]
Ban The Shift?
By JOHN DEWANOver the years in Stat of the Week we’ve analyzed the significant increase in shifting in baseball that has occurred since 2012. We have been proponents of this defensive strategy as we have demonstrated in many different ways that, when employed against the right batters in the right situations, shifting is very effective. [...]
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