Wikiquote Quotes: Bill James
I didn't care about the statistics in anything else. I didn't, and don't pay any attention to the statistics of the stock market, the weather, the crime rate, the gross national product, the circulation of magazines, the ebb and flow of literacy among football fans and how many people are going to starve to death before the year if I don't start adopting them for $3.69 a month; just baseball. Now why is that? It is because baseball statistics, unlike the statistics in any other area, have acquired the powers of language Baseball Abstract
Bill James on King Felix's time
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[ESPN (blog)] - It's subscriber-only and I don't even know if I'm supposed to do this, but Bill James runs through the math, finds that CC Sabathia was
NCAAB math? Try the lead calculator
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[Covers (blog)] - And then I remembered one of my favorite tools for watching college hoops: the Bill James Lead Calculator. Just punch in the lead, time remaining and who
Kalish scores big in James' forecast
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[ESPN (blog)] - If so, Bill James would not have predicted 13 home runs for Jose Bautista, instead of the 54 he hit. (As James archly notes, no one else saw that coming for
More a Wake for Sanity Than a Rally to Restore It
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[The Nation. (blog)] - Like Bill James, a 48-year-old social worker from San Diego, who said he was unlikely to attend any other rally, “progressives or otherwise, other than what
ALCY pits Wins against ERA
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[ESPN (blog)] - It's not about Bill James or Moneyball or new-fangled statistics, really. Really, it's simply about wins for pitchers having become somewhat devalued in the
Sparky was one of the greats
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[ESPN (blog)] - Bill James once suggested -- as only he can (or could; Bill has softened over the years) -- that Sparky had cost the Tigers 20 wins per season.
Uggla, Benoit, Davis all face new challenge
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[ESPN (blog)] is slightly less friendly to right-handed hitters than Sun Life Stadium (according to the Park Factors available in the Bill James Baseball Handbook).
David Wright empathizes with Morneau
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[ESPN (blog)] - The recently-released Bill James Handbook calculated a “Park Factor” of 64 for right-handed hitters at Citi Field, second-worst of any ballpark in the
Tommy John leads Vets Committee ballot
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[ESPN (blog)] still hasn't figured out a way to do something truly interesting, like seriously consider Frank Jobe as a "pioneer" ... let alone Bill James.
Angels, Crawford would be statistical match
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[ESPN (blog)] - He ranked among the American League leaders with 47 stolen bases and ranked fourth in a Bill James-devised stat, baserunning gain.
Google Groups: Changing registration information for Windows 98
: Gary S. Terhune microsoft public win98 gen_discussion There's a script to do this at MVP Bill James's VBScript site: ...
Google Groups: A little perspective on Brian Daubach
: Player YR RC/27 (Bill James's, not Eric's) Daubach Vaughn Daubach Vaughn Daubach Vaughn 01 DNP Daubach Vaughn
Google Groups: Red Sox Aquire 2b Todd Walker from Reds
: John in NH --SP4M-- alt sports baseball bos-redsox This smacks of Bill James's love of Earl Weaver to me. The Sox have a second baseman who ...
Bill James On Mike Piazza
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MMO reader Pete Sinapi, sent me a link to an article written by Bill James about a year ago in which he stated his
Google Groups: Batting your best hitter 4th. why?
: In his book on managers, Bill James suggested that the difference between a ... To quote Bill James (talking about his study based on the Cubs): The ...
Google Groups: Baseball Book 1991: Who Am I?
: Again, can you identify the following players without looking them up in Bill James's The Baseball Book 1991? All of them will be players who played in
Google Groups: AL Marginal Lineup Values
: The idea behind MLV's is to get around the biggest problem I see with Bill James's "Runs Created" and Jeff Sagarin's ratings, which is that these methods ...
Google Groups: Grady Fired?
: I happen to love the Bill James "Relief Ace" model. I think it's intelligent and the best use of the "closer." Granted, our bullpen has spit the bit all ...
Google Groups: Best fantasy baseball service
: ... fantasy baseball, I was always a big fan of Bill James's Fantasy Baseball, which I think is now just Stats--does anyone know the story beind that? ...
Google Groups: Cardinal Hitters
: For details, see Bill James's _The Politics of Glory_. -- David Grabiner, .ac.il, http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~grabiner I speak at the Hebrew ...
Google Groups: Sox trade = no Clement
: Bill James works on his staff. The team is Theo's not Bill James's. And Bill James never said that defenbse was irrelevant. They built a team that fields
Google Groups: brock2.c, version 1.1
: The Brock2 algorithm itself was placed in the public domain by Bill James. Version 1.1, June 4, 1995: adjusts for shortened seasons. ...
Hahns groundballin bullpen
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— Authority 602 effectiveness of groundball pitchers. Rob Neyer summarizes sabermetrics elder statesman Bill James thoughts on the subject - such
Google Groups: Hitting "inside" the ball??
: Anthony Giacalone alt sports baseball chi-whitesox It's Bill James's contention too. And I think that there is a good deal of merit ...
Google Groups: The Ultimate Stupid Saber-Yahoo Comment
: You claim you like reading Bill James. Most people here have read a lot of Bill James's work. Not a few others have worked with him, written with him, ...
Google Groups: XP Pro page file size
: See my VM page www.aumha.org/a/xpvm.htm for links to a script of Bill James's and a compiled version by Doug Knox which will tell you what the largest size ...
A Farce in Cooperstown
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bargaining process. As the baseball writer and researcher Bill James puts it , "if 80 percent of the players are using corked
Google Groups: Bell
: Bill James's seminal studying of aging (in either the '82 or '83 Abstract) found that the rapidest decline phase starts at age 32. When you consider how few ...
Google Groups: Pythagorean Projection as playoff indicator...
: Bill James's playoffs prediction system included won-lost record. I assume this means that there was at least some predictive quality to won-lost record in ...
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