All posts tagged "baseball"
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503BlogPlate Discipline – Swing %
What does plate discipline tell us? how often a hitter swings and makes contact with certain kind of pitches. it also tells...
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BsR BaseRunning
Measuring speed in baserunning wasn’t a precise metrics for many years. Today they define this category as a statistic that takes stolen...
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BABIP- Batting Average on Balls in Play
Batting Average on Balls In Play (BABIP) measures how often a ball in play goes for a hit. A ball is “in...
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Sweetest Swings in Baseball History
There is nothing like watching the sweetest swings in baseball history. Over the course of the game’s history, the swing has evolved...
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Measuring ISO
What is ISO? In baseball, Isolated Power or ISO is a sabermetric computation used to measure a batter’s raw power. One formula is slugging percentage minus...
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Flashback Friday: The Magic of Wearing Number 32 in 1963
Flashback to 1963. The Miracle Mets (1969) had not yet graced baseball. Adam Sandler wasn’t born yet. And Julius Erving, who rocked...
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Runs Created Formula- What is It?
The Runs Created Formula in the Sabermetric world is defined as it estimates a player’s offensive contribution in terms of total...
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New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club
New York Knickerbockers Formed Baseball history began in earnest in the summer of 1842 in New York City. There is no doubt...
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OPS Sabermetric Talk
What is OPS? Simply add on-base percentage and slugging percentage to form OPS. This is a relative new statistic that is meant...
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What is SLG in Baseball?
Understanding sabermetrics and the use of slugging percentage is a better process of evaluating a hitter and is superior than using the...
