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(This article originally appeared at Beyond the Box Score, where I am now a regular contributor) 2010 marks the end of the “ought” decade for Major League Baseball. I thought I would take the opportunity to analyze the last 10 years by visualizing team data. I used Tableau Public to create the visualization and pulled team [...]
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There is quite a lot of buzz surrounding the AL Cy Young award this year. While there are a number of pitchers that possess a high number of wins (17, 18, 19, and even 20 games), there are many who believe the award should go to Seattle’s Felix Hernandex. Despite only winning 13 games and [...]
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That’s one way to interpret Zack Greinke’s claiming of the award for 2009: It was not surprising that Greinke won, since his earned run average, 2.16, was the lowest in the American League since 2000. But his decisive margin of victory over Seattle’s Felix Hernandez was a sign that voters overlooked his deficiency in another [...]
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For those that follow the debate around Michael Lewis’ Moneyball and its effect on front office strategy there is a fantastic article over at The Hardball Times. For the uninitiated, Moneyball follows Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane during the summer of 2002 as the team attempted to implement a different strategy to make his [...]
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[Fair warning: what follows is quite lengthy] Well, it is performance review time at work and this reminded me of a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while. An issue that has always interested me is how organizations measure individual performance. Organizations have finite resources and therefore must deploy those resources in the [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
