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Bill James’s remarks on the BCS are making all sorts of rounds on the internets, and when you do what I do it’s awfully hard not to pay attention to whatever Bill writes. This particular subject is important to me because I find the process of using statistical rankings to rank sports teams fascinating…
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A sincere and warm congrats to sabermetric fellow traveler Tommy Tango on his new consulting gig with the Seattle Mariners. Tommy’s first set of moves will be to replace Jim Presley at third with Edgar Martinez, install Ken Phelps as the fulltime DH, and use their first round draft pick on High School superprospect…
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A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone out there. When all you boys and girls dig in and start opening presents, be sure to avoid this pitfall: Merry Christmas!!
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There are still 100 teams participating in World Cup qualifying, 31 one of which will join the hosts for the big show in South Africa in 2010. But who really still has a shot to go? And who really should already be making their hotel reservations? Which of the big guns are in trouble?…
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Rank Country OFF Rating DEF Rating 1. Brazil 1.97 303.74 2. Spain 1.57 340.61 3. Argentina 1.80 247.19 4. Netherlands 1.49 295.77 5. England 1.59 248.67 6. France 1.41 279.39 7. Italy 1.38 268.03 8. Germany 1.87 191.00 9. Czech Republic 1.57 212.43 10. Portugal 1.46 204.98 11. Romania 1.33 218.92 12. Croatia 1.33…
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Here’s the list of the chances of qualifying based on the 10,000 simulations. Obviously no rounding was needed. Country Qualify% South Africa 100.00% Brazil 99.88% Australia 99.85% Paraguay 99.44% Japan 99.09% Spain 99.09% Netherlands 98.41% Argentina 98.34% Mexico 97.13% England 96.86% Korea Republic 95.59% USA 95.24% Germany 93.42% Italy 91.10% Iran 86.04% Côte d’Ivoire…
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Hi folks (if there’s anyone still there). I’m back after a long layoff. I could explain things further, but suffice it to say, life happens. But I’m back and will be posting more regularly (I hope). One thing to note is that the site will probably shift a little bit more in the soccer/other…
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I tell you, I don’t understand my fellow men sometimes. Such peculiar behavior. Professional sideline eye candy Erin Andrews seems to be causing a stir yet again. I think what’s happened here is that sideline reporters are supposed to be “attractive” and Erin is considerably above that bar. And so folks like Rick Sutcliffe…