Author: Chris Ford
Fourteen Ejected As Tempers Flare, A Six Hour Epic Settled by Position Player Pitching – BtBS, Week of 7/4
Finally! Ejections, and plenty of them. With 14 last week, the second highest number of ejections in a week this season, the umpires league-wide kept themselves busy. The high for the week belonged to both the Blue Jays, who have an astonishing 14 ejections on the season thus far, and the Pirates, who have the…
Rockies Giving Fans Value For The Money, Rangers Pack The House – Below the Box Score, Week of 6/27
If you had places to be this week, hopefully you were not a fan of Colorado baseball. In all seven games this week, the Rockies averaged a 3:40 length of game. The twist? Not one single extra inning game. With 102 runs over seven games, nobody got home from a Rockies game in shorter than 3:17 this…
Not Sports: A Color Coded Map of Every National Anthem’s Subject
Apologies in advance for not staying in my lane, but this one truly had a sporting origin. While sitting and watching the UEFA 2016 tournament, I really enjoy watching Spain take the pitch for the national anthem as their fans sing the unofficial lyrics while the team members themselves stand stoically. It made me wonder what…
Umpire Gets Ejected By Player, Giants Might As Well Play In Refrigerator: Below the Box Score, Week of 6/20
If you’re a fan of attending the ballgame with a nice summer’s breeze, and view going to a baseball game as an opportunity to sit outside in the nice weather, it’s safe to say you probably don’t attend San Francisco Giants games. At least through June. The Giants hosted a miserable (weather-wise) three game series this…
Rangers Claim Top Organization, Yankees Take Top Farm System: Baseball Organizational Computer Rankings, Week of 6/17
Every week we take a look at the weekly changes in the Baseball Organizational Rankings that we here at AMSTS have created in an effort to quantify the quality of various team’s entire organization. For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major…
Nate Silver’s NHL Expansion Analysis Is Weak At Best (AKA Why Las Vegas Isn’t A Bad NHL Option)
In a post on FiveThirtyEight yesterday, noted political pundit and Sabrematrician Nate Silver posited that “Las Vegas Is A a Terrible Place For An NHL Team” based upon his robust analysis…. Built upon Google searching habits. That’s right. One of the most respected data analysts in the blogosphere simplified a metric of “fans…
Speedy Baseball For All; No Need For Ice Cream In San Francisco. Below the Box Score: Week of 6/13
Only five ejections this week, following last week’s three, seems to indicate that cooler heads have mostly been prevailing. The exception perhaps being Yordano Ventura and Manny Machado going at it and earning nine and four game suspensions respectively. Let’s enjoy it once more, shall we? Your browser does not support iframes. With that, it…
Cubs Hold Top Spot, Royals Take a Dive: Baseball Organizational Rankings, Week of 6/10
Every week we take a look at the weekly changes in the Baseball Organizational Rankings that we here at AMSTS have created in an effort to quantify the quality of various team’s entire organization. For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major…
A Look At Every Out Made Since 1952
One of the best things about baseball is that there is a statistic for everything, and it’s a true data nerd’s game. Want to know who has the 10th longest streak of consecutive games with a single since the year 2000? You can find it. (It’s Luis Castillo) Want to develop your own methodology for determining…
Dodgers Draw 5000 More in Lowest Attended Game Than A’s Entire Series: Below the Box Score, Week of 6/6
The story this week is the Dodgers, who have drawn impressive numbers in a city known for it’s fan fickleness. In fact, as the headline mentions, the Dodgers drew a minimum of 46,366 this week. Meanwhile, up I-5, the Oakland A’s drew 41,361 fans… in three games. In fact, the Cardinals also outdrew the A’s…
Changes At The Top As Cubs Take Top Spot – Baseball Organizational Rankings, Week of 6/2
Every week we take a look at the weekly changes in the Baseball Organizational Rankings that we here at AMSTS have created in an effort to quantify the quality of various team’s entire organization. For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major…
NL Catching Up On Ejections, Cleveland Starts Watching Baseball: Below the Box Score, Week of 5/30
The National League has decided they want to compete in ejections, going 7-1 this week relative to their American League counterparts. The highlight probably being Noah Syndergaard’s ejection after throwing behind Chase Utley, continuing a string of bad blood between the Mets and the Dodgers stemming from Utley’s slide in last year’s NLDS Game…