SABR and sabermetrics 2015

SABR Day is 2015; there could be a meeting near you.

http://sabr.org/sabrday

uhhh, that is, 1/24/2015

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p+r last night

i swear they've used this before, i saw screengrabs last year

this season jumped 3 years ahead, it was just pecota vorp and eckstein before

SABR Analytics Conference
March 12-14, 2015
Hyatt Regency Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona

Newly announced guests: Dave Stewart and Tony LaRussa!

http://sabr.org/analytics

PECOTA sez Mets in WC hunt

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/dc/

would love to see some sort of confidence interval for that dodgers projection, i can't remember the last time pecota predicted that many wins

BP annual delivered yesterday; fewer pages cuz smaller type. :/

Worth purchase for the Jeter player comment alone.

2015 recipients of the Henry Chadwick Award, established to honor the game’s great researchers—historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists—for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past:

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-announces-2015-henry-chadwick-award-recipients

The SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards will recognize baseball researchers who have completed the best work of original analysis or commentary during the preceding calendar year. Nominations were solicited by representatives from SABR, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, The Hardball Times, and Beyond the Box Score.

Read the pieces and vote here:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=25472

"Aw hell, I don't keep statistics. Whatever they send me, I just sign and send it back. Of course, I call them a few names first."

Fred Talbot, 1969.

I'll go to Phoenix if I win the lottery or hold up a liquor store this month:

http://sabr.org/analytics/schedule

RP2—Jason Wilson and Jarvis Greiner, Biola University, "A 2014 MLB Case Study in Quantitative Pitch Mapping Using QOP (Quality of Pitch) and GI (Greiner Index) with PITCHf/x data"

RP8—Ben Jedlovec, Baseball Info Solutions, "Trajectory-Based Hitting and Pitching Statistics"

RP12—Scott A. Van Lenten and Frank J. Infurna, Arizona State University, "Performance Enhancing Dads? Paternity and Bereavement Leave in Major League Baseball"

RP13—Harold M. Wasserman, Florida International University, "An Empirical Analysis of the Infield Fly Rule"

last one sounds amazing

I was startled to hear the author of the BP annual article on the Diamondbacks guesting on the daily podcast today: former ilxor David R! Apparently he writes and says things around the interwebs.

his yakkin about baseball bits on the classical are hilarious

http://theclassical.org/articles/yakkin-about-baseball-journeys-among-the-basebros

<3 u ruben

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12331388/the-great-analytics-rankings

happy to see Marlins as the bridesmaid

@robneyer
La Russa: "The psychological reality is, some guys can't pitch the ninth inning." #SABRanalytics

@robneyer
Dave Stewart on beating infield shifts: "I speak as a player. We're stubborn mules. We don't make adjustments." #SABRanalytics

I don't think there will be a SABR event in Montreal this year, I need to move out of here.

maybe you should organise one

there's a Montreal chapter, they must meet once in awhile.

In August, the Negro Leagues Conference is in Pittsburgh:

http://sabr.org/latest/save-date-2015-jerry-malloy-negro-league-conference-august-6-8-pittsburgh

I met with them once, it seemed like lots of in-fighting was going on and nobody had the energy or will to make something good happen. They never answered my mail.

mtl had one on sabr day this year. i missed it because i forget why.

hey vhs, you wanna drink beers and talk about baseball in mtl sometime?

had a murray chass-like reaction to this

http://www.hardballtimes.com/how-does-eye-color-affect-daynight-splits

haha. i jumped to "it's a non-issue"

btw it turns out i am going to the SABR convention, in Chi 6/24-28.

is this our sabermetrics thread?

i saw somewhere that tango was going to unveil a new composite pitching metric today, anyone seen that?

it's this at BP, have not read yet (only peripheral Tango credit)

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=26195

research presentations at next month's convention:

http://sabr.org/convention/sabr45-presentations

Harry Pavlidis of BP on measuring catcher game-calling

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12880518/mlb-best-game-caller-dodgers-catcher-aj-ellis

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=26493

revising Deserved Run Average

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=26613

well, if anyone has questions they want me to pose to "Rainbow" Trout or Sidd Finch next week...

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-45-curveballs-pitching-prodigies-real-and-imagined

The Cubs' broadcasters were pretty funny and on point -- I cannot fucking stand that blowhard Curt Smith, however.

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-45-broadcasters-panel-len-kasper-ron-coomer-jim-deshaies

I caught the 'Little League HR' pres, v entertaining.

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-45-hildebrandt-grilc-win-2015-presentation-awards

This is the only 'coverage' i was able to find other than on the SABR site, and SI for Kids.

http://www.southsidesox.com/2015/6/30/8866951/notes-from-the-sabr-conference-in-chicago

Ron Kittle has def honed his act on the rubber chicken circuit.

Apparently there were 126 first-time attendees, which is amazing as most of them looked to be under 40, and I've *never* gotten anyone interested in coming.

BU offer SABR101x Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics free online. Probably not advanced enough for ILBB.

https://courses.edx.org/courses/BUx/SABR101x/2T2014/

Saberseminar speakers: Cherington, Farrell, Cameron, Harry Pavlidis. At BU in 2 weeks.

http://saberseminar.com/the-participants-the-program/

another sabecast right now if yer near a TV

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/142562010/mlb-network-to-show-special-astros-giants-game

agenda for Boston

http://saberseminar.com/schedule/

literally just found there's a difference between 'At Bats' and 'Plate Appearances'

well ya gotta start somewhere