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Las 5 mejores casas de apuestas de Argentina
Read More: Las 5 mejores casas de apuestas de ArgentinaIntroducción En Argentina, la popularidad de las apuestas deportivas ha crecido debido a la búsqueda de plataformas confiables y atractivas para jugar. La aparición de las casas de apuestas en línea ha brindado a los apostadores argentinos una amplia gama de opciones que satisfacen una variedad de preferencias e intereses. 1win Argentina ha llamado la…
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HOW MUCH WILL HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE MATTER IN 2020?
Read More: HOW MUCH WILL HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE MATTER IN 2020?The home team has won approximately 53.5% of all MLB regular season games from 2010-2019. In a normal season, the home team has a small but significant edge over an evenly matched opponent. However, the upcoming 2020 season is far from normal. We know home field advantage exists in baseball, but do we know why?…
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Pitcher Launch Angle, Visualized, Part 1
Read More: Pitcher Launch Angle, Visualized, Part 1In May, I tweeted that I had a hunch that pitchers had very little (to zero) control over exit velocities against them. This is going to sound stupid, verging on really stupid, but I honestly wonder if pitchers have any control over EV, like, at all and whether or not their allowed batted ball quality…
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REVISITING KS AND BBS
Read More: REVISITING KS AND BBSStatistics are, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary points out, “a collection of quantitative data”. Pure and simple. What is not that simple is how we use this data or how we make sense of it. Fortunately, we live in a time and age where we have at the disposal of our fingertips incredible sources (in quantity…
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DJ LEMAHIEU: TO EXTEND OR NOT TO EXTEND?
Read More: DJ LEMAHIEU: TO EXTEND OR NOT TO EXTEND?Yankee fans remember the DJ LeMahieu signing as a confusing move by a team that already had enough infielders and were in the middle of a pursuit of then free-agent Manny Machado. A high average, low everything else hitter coming from Coors Field? His role was originally going to be a versatile defensive player and…
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INTRODUCING A DYNAMIC HARD HIT RATE AND “TRUEHIT”
Read More: INTRODUCING A DYNAMIC HARD HIT RATE AND “TRUEHIT”At the beginning of April, I asked this question to my Twitter followers: Given just the video, would you consider this ball hit hard? (poll below) — Connor Kurcon (@ckurcon) April 8, 2020 It’s a pretty simple question, but one without a simple response. The attached poll went roughly as I expected, with 60% of the responders…
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BENEFICIARIES OF THE 2019 “DRAGLESS” BASEBALL
Read More: BENEFICIARIES OF THE 2019 “DRAGLESS” BASEBALLIt’s no secret that MLB has gone through many alterations of the baseball over the past 5 seasons. There have been incredible articles on the matter. In 2017, Ben Lindburgh of The Ringer, in collaboration with Mitchell Litchman, studied game used balls from as far back as 2015, finding that, among other things, the seams…
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IT’S ALWAYS “SONNY” IN CINCINNATI
Read More: IT’S ALWAYS “SONNY” IN CINCINNATIIt’s Always “Sonny” in Cincinnati Have you ever sifted through fantasy baseball rankings and wondered, “why can I draft this player so late?” Or conversely, “why do I have to draft this player so early?” I’ve come across a ton of these players while preparing for 2020 fantasy drafts, and look forward to writing about…
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LRP: QUANTIFYING THE LOCATION ASPECT OF COMMAND
Read More: LRP: QUANTIFYING THE LOCATION ASPECT OF COMMANDCommand. It’s a term in baseball that some people have trouble defining, and yet everyone knows it when they see it. Everyone knows that this is what elite fastball command looks like. Just like everyone knows that this is what elite breaking ball command looks like. It’s different from control; control is simply the ability…
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PCRA UPDATE II: NORMALIZATION
Read More: PCRA UPDATE II: NORMALIZATIONI’ve made some changes to the pCRA formula based on a few things, including how it has been doing this year compared to some of its peers like xFIP and SIERA. If you read the initial piece (found above), I compared the root mean squared error (RMSE) of pCRA to next season’s ERA to both…
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Las 5 mejores casas de apuestas de Argentina
Introducción En Argentina, la popularidad de las apuestas deportivas ha crecido debido a la búsqueda de plataformas confiables y atractivas para jugar. La aparición de las casas de apuestas en línea ha brindado a los apostadores argentinos una amplia gama de opciones que satisfacen una variedad de preferencias e intereses. 1win Argentina ha llamado la…
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HOW MUCH WILL HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE MATTER IN 2020?
The home team has won approximately 53.5% of all MLB regular season games from 2010-2019. In a normal season, the home team has a small but significant edge over an evenly matched opponent. However, the upcoming 2020 season is far from normal. We know home field advantage exists in baseball, but do we know why?…
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Pitcher Launch Angle, Visualized, Part 1
In May, I tweeted that I had a hunch that pitchers had very little (to zero) control over exit velocities against them. This is going to sound stupid, verging on really stupid, but I honestly wonder if pitchers have any control over EV, like, at all and whether or not their allowed batted ball quality…