Category: Quantitative

I was recently listening to a podcast called Revisionist History.  Revisionist History, hosted by the (among other things) journalist and writer Malcolm Gladwell, is really, really good, but that isn’t the point here.  ...

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...

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...

Much has been made over the past couple years as teams seem to, more than ever, embrace one of two attitudes leading into any particular season.  The first attitude is of those teams who...