Blue Jays hate Pythagoras. August 23, 2008
Posted by tomflesher in Baseball.Tags: Baseball, Blue Jays, economics
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The Toronto Blue Jays won another big one today, 11-0 over the visiting Boston Red Sox. It seemed to me that between that, the 14-3 destruction of the Yankees on Thursday, and last Sunday’s 15-4 route of Boston (again), the 11-run games might have been messing with the team’s statistical expectations. Sure enough, the big run totals are increasing the Blue Jays’ pythagorean expectation, with the difference between expected win percentage and actual win percentage being higher after the all-star break than before.
Numbers are behind the cut.
Things I spend a lot of time thinking about August 3, 2008
Posted by tomflesher in Uncategorized.Tags: beer, brewing, economics, Mets, Research, sabermetrics, Yankees
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Baseball generally, the New York teams specifically, applied economics, sabermetrics (wait, those two are the same thing), Canada, Canadian politics, rational choice theory in professional sports, homebrewing, the hop shortage, torbie cats named Samantha, US politics, Brewery Ommegang.
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