2023 MLB Season Preview

Summertime is near, pitch clocks are working, and America’s pastime is ready to entertain us through October.

MLB Deep Dive: How To Use Expected Stats Properly

“This player is having a good year, but his xwOBA is slightly lower than his wOBA, so he’s going to get worse.” This is a common phrase you’ll hear within the baseball analysis community. To be fair, with the data made available to us, it’s easy to come to conclusions like this. However, it’s not…

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MLB Study: Rethinking How We Look At Team Defense

They say that a run prevented is as important as a run scored, and this checks out. In fact, based on the coefficient of determination (r^2) for the two variables, a run prevented has actually been more correlated with team success than a run scored. This has been labeled as the “run prevention era”, and…

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Analyzing The Stability of Amateur Baseball Players’ Statistics

In baseball, prospects are generally seen as a crapshoot, and it is easy to see why. According to Scott McKinney of Royals Review, of Baseball America’s top 100 prospects from 1996-2003, nearly 70% of them posted Wins Above Replacements (WAR) on average of 1.50 or less. Considering that these are supposed to be the premier…

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NFL Week 17 Game-By-Game Previews

The Holidays have come and gone, but there is still plenty of reason for cheer; we’re in the midst of an incredibly exciting end of the NFL season. At the moment, three teams have a legitimate shot at earning the #1 seed in the AFC, both the AFC South and NFC South are completely up…

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NFL Week 16 Game-By-Game Previews

In football, they call it “any given Sunday” for a reason; you never know when you’re going to witness something you’ve never seen before. In Week 15, we didn’t even have to wait for Sunday for the excitement to start, with the Vikings completing the largest comeback in NFL history on Saturday, followed by a…

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NFL Week 15 Game-By-Game Previews

At some point, can we sit back and acknowledge the absurdity that has been the 2022-2023 NFL season? Think about this; in a week where the Broncos were eliminated from the postseason and the Rams needed a comeback by Baker Mayfield to win their fourth game, we’re talking about the Lions, Seahawks, Giants, and Commanders…

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