Monthly Archive: February 2019

How Do Various Defensive Metrics Relate to Each Other?

This post aims to very generally shed light on how a couple key defensive metrics often applied in baseball circles relate to each other.  Observed will be five such stats, all cumulative scores of...

First Round Pick Visualizations

Here are two auxiliary plots in conjunction to the post made last week.  They provide a bit more insight into players who have been drafted in the first round over the past 19 amateur...

Happiness, Expectations, and the First Round

An oft-cited formula that I believe originated in psychology circles is this:  Happiness = Reality – Expectations.   At a glance, this formula seems to hold water; it very simply stands to reason that...