Intro about what WAR is and how you can find a more in depth definition of it here. A player’s value is some combination of performance and randomness, or luck. Hitting a hard line drive is performance; hitting it into…
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Coach Bud & Four All-Stars: The 2014-2015 Hawks
If any of you actually put yourself through watching the All-Star Game, you know that Coach of the Year candidate Mike Budenholzer coached an Eastern Conference All-Star team with four Hawks on it. At one point he actually started a…
Posted in Basketball, Columns Tagged with: Al Horford, analytics, Basketball, coach bud, hawks, Jeff Teague, Kyle Korver, Kyle trying to be smart, NBA, Paul Milsap
Regressed WAR: An Introduction
In case you haven’t already heard, baseball is a game of numbers. Some curmudgeons like to say that baseball isn’t all about statistics, and to some extent, that’s true. However, the point of playing baseball is to win baseball games,…
Posted in Baseball, Sports Tagged with: analytics, baseball, sports, sports analytics, statistics, WAR
