This area is a place on the site to collect our many posts about baseball statistics. You can find information about sabermetrics here as well as detailed breakdowns about why certain traditional statistics and ideas aren’t any good. Please feel free to ask questions and post comments. The goal of this site, aside from enjoying the Tigers, is to help inform fans about advanced baseball analysis. Feel free to send any and all questions to NewEnglishD@gmail.com.
Note: These posts were written between 2012 and 2014 and may no longer reflect current formulas or the best available research.
Leading Off
Why Pitcher Wins Aren’t A Good Stat
- You Can Have A Great Season and Not Win
- You Can Have A Bad Season and Win A Lot
- Wins Don’t Even Out in Big Samples
- A Case Study in Wins
- 12 Assorted Facts About Wins from 2013
- Dissecting the Case for Wins
- A Replacement for Wins
- The Nine Worst Wins of 2013
Why RBI Shouldn’t Be Used to Measure Individual Players
- A Case Study in RBI
- The Nine Worst 100 RBI Season in MLB History
- The Nine Best Seasons Under 70 RBI
- RBI Don’t Even Out Over Long Careers
About Bullpen Usage
- Yes, You Can Invent A Closer
- Closers Don’t Matter
- How to Use a Bullpen
- The Nine Worst Seasons By Closers
- The Nine Worst One Inning Saves in MLB History
What Stats Should We Know About Instead?
Offense:
- The Case for OBP Over Batting Average
- The Most Misleading Batting Averages of 2013
- Weighted On Base Average (wOBA)
- Weighted Runs Created Plus (wRC+)
- Isolated Slugging (ISO)
- Batting Average On Balls In Play (BABIP)
- Weighted Runs Above Average (wRAA)
Baserunning:
Defense
Pitching:
- The Problem with ERA
- Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP)
- Expected Fielding Independent Pitching (xFIP)
- SOEFA (An original reliever stat)
Concepts:
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