Posts Tagged ‘WARP’

Baseball Therapy: Replacing the Replacement Player$

Baseball Therapy: What’s Wrong With the Free Agent Market?$

Prospectus Feature: Bill James vs. The Noise

Player value depends heavily on your assumptions, and particularly on how you decide to measure and compile a player’s supposed contribution.

Baseball Therapy: Are We Short-Changing Shortstops?$

Baseball Therapy: We Need to Talk About Defense

Are we looking the wrong way at shifts up and down the defensive spectrum?

Banjo Hitter: Mike Trout’s First 50 WARP

When the best gets better, no one is safe.

Baseball Therapy: The Viability of Burying a Bad Bat

Or, would the Yankees be better off starting Derek Jeter or Brendan Ryan at shortstop?

Reworking WARP: The Importance of a Living Replacement Level

Why and how replacement level has shifted over time.

Reworking WARP: Why We Need Replacement Level

Or why none of the alternatives to replacement level works as well.

Reworking WARP: The Uncertainty of Offense, Part Two

How we can acknowledge uncertainty while minimizing it as much as possible.

Reworking WARP: The Overlooked Uncertainty of Offense

How accurate can we be when comparing hitters’ performance?

Reworking WARP: The Series Ahead

What we’ll be doing with WARP in the coming weeks, and why.

BP Daily Podcast: Effectively Wild Episode 242: The All-No-Bang-for-Your-Buck Team

Ben and Sam draft the worst player contracts to see who can spend the most money for the least production.

Baseball Prospectus News: Replacement Level and 10-Year Projections

A few announcements about fixes for and changes to our statistical offerings.

Pebble Hunting: Fixing the Holes, American League

Each AL team had a weakest position last season. Those positions aren’t so weak anymore.

Pebble Hunting: The Non-Pitching Value of Pitchers

Is it worth paying certain pitchers more for what they do when they’re not on the mound?