John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
Rare and Near Perfection – What are the Odds?
Prior to this season, in 134 seasons of Major League Baseball dating back to 1876, only 18 perfect games had been thrown. That’s one every seven or eight seasons. This year, we’ve had three in less than a month (though only two count).
Dallas Braden was on top [...]
June 4, 2010
Tags: Baseball Info Solutions, No-hitter, Prefect Game Posted in: John Dewan, Stat of the Week, stats 
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John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
A Couple of Alternatives to ERA
For years and years and years, and to this day, the standard stats to quote when talking about a player are home runs, RBI and batting average for hitters, and wins, losses and ERA for pitchers. Here are a couple of examples. From MLB.com’s Player of the Month section [...]
April 30, 2010
Tags: Baseball Info Solutions, Carlos Lee, ERA, Hardball Times, pitchers Posted in: John Dewan, Stat of the Week, stats One Comment
John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
The Super Bowl Prediction System — Super Bowl XLIV is a toss-up
All the betting lines favor the Colts right now by five or six points, but in my book it’s a toss-up. If I were a betting man, I’d take the Saints and the points. But if you do that, don’t blame me if [...]
January 29, 2010
Tags: Baseball Info Solutions, John Dewan, sports betting, Super Bowl Posted in: John Dewan, Stat of the Week No Comments
John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
Who are baseball’s best and worst baserunners?
In The Bill James Handbook 2010 we analyze a player’s baserunning ability. For each player, we measure his ability to move first to third, second to home, and first to home in addition to the number of outs he records on the bases and how he fares in double [...]
November 26, 2009
Tags: base running, Baseball Handbook, Baseball Info Solutions, Bill James Posted in: John Dewan, Stat of the Week, stats One Comment
John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
Who are the MVP leaders based on Total Runs?
Teams are clinching playoff spots almost daily now that we’re in the last week of the season, but has anyone sewn up the MVP award? As we did last week for the Rookie of the Year candidates, let’s use the Total Runs metric first introduced in [...]
September 28, 2009
Tags: Albert Pujols, Baseball Info Solutions, Ben Zobrist, Chase Utley, Chone Figgins, Derek Jeter, Hanley Ramirez, Joe Mauer, Mark Teixeira, Miguel Cabrera, MVP, Prince Fielder, Ryan Zimmerman, Zach Greinke Posted in: John Dewan, Stat of the Week, awards, stats One Comment
John Dewan’s Stat of the Week™
The Latest Scoop
In the previous edition of Stat of the Week, we took a small sample from Baseball Info Solutions’ Enhanced Fielding data to compare Jason Giambi and Mark Teixeira’s ability to scoop bad throws at first base. We showed that while Teixeira scoops more balls than Giambi, he also plays the field more [...]
August 26, 2009
Tags: Baseball Info Solutions, Derrek Lee, Fielding Bible, Jason Giambi, John Dewan, Mark Teixeira Posted in: John Dewan, Stat of the Week, book, stats No Comments
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