Author: Chris Ford
Indians Hold First, Mariners Second In This Week’s Baseball Organizational Computer Rankings
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…
MLB Pace of Play Proposals Won’t Save Any Time
A few days ago, reports appeared which indicated that Major League Baseball’s competition committee had agreed to two key changes under the guise of “speeding up the game.” Intentional walks will not need to be pitched, the pitcher can indicate that he wants to walk the batter, and the batter will be immediately granted first base.…
AL Dominates Ejections Race While Cleveland Still Can’t Get People To Show Up: Below the Box Score, Week of 5/23
Cooler heads have prevailed this week, as only nine ejections were recorded to last week’s 17. Interestingly, the AL continues to dominate, having almost twice as many ejections as the NL, with a score of 37-19. This week the Blue Jays once again took center (or rather, centre) stage with three ejections in three separate incidents,…
Indians hop the Cubs, Braves Are Top-To-Bottom Terrible: Baseball Organizational Rankings Week in Review
Every week — or so, last week was cancelled because I welcomed my first child into the world — 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…
Below the Box Score: The Ejections Keep on Coming!
The ejections continue at nearly an exponential pace with SEVENTEEN ejections this week, seven of which were the result of the now-famous Odor Punch™ & ensuing brawl that took place on Sunday. The American League continues to absolutely dominate the National League, with 29 ejections on the season to the Senior Circuit’s 18. In completely…
Below The Box Score: Twelve Ejections & Cleveland Sets Record Low Attendance – Week of 5/9
The interesting stat of the week? 12 ejections, ten of which were in the American League, giving the league a commanding lead in season ejections, 18-11. Secondarily, the story remains Cleveland’s terrible attendance. At this point, there have been three games this entire MLB season with fewer than 10,000 fans and all three took…
MLB Expansion in Mexico City: How Much Deeper Would the Fences Have To Be?
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told CSN Chicago on Thursday that both Montreal and Mexico City are in the sights of the league for potential expansion to 32 teams. Montreal would bring a team back to the city after they moved south in 2004. Mexico City, on the other hand, would be completely new and fascinating…
Cubs Org Heads North, White Sox Org Heads South: The Baseball Organizational Rankings Week in Review
The Baseball Organizational Rankings have been out for a few weeks now, and it’s time to take a look at the changes that have happened since launch. For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major and minor leagues by some…
Below the Box Score: Fast Baseball – A new low! Week of 5/2
The story this week is FAST BASEBALL, with lots of new records being set this week in regards to pace of play. First off, the Dodgers and Padres played on Sunday and completed the entire ordeal in a mere 127 minutes, becoming the quickest game of the year so far. This was a 1-0…
Can Free Throw % Tell Us How Good a Basketball League Is?
Living in Germany, my options for live, high-caliber sports are limited, if I don’t want to sit outside in 35 degree rainy weather and watch soccer. As such, over the past year and a half I’ve tried to “make it work” with hockey and basketball. With hockey, the larger ice helps the game feel more…
Below The Box Score: Ejections-a-plenty! Week of 4/25
The story of this week has to be the ejections. After last week had no ejections, the umps warmed up their tossin’ arms and 6 were ejected this week. The Padres had two of their own rung up this week, which is the weekly high for a team (unsurprisingly). The Padres helped even the score…
Introducing the AMSTS Baseball Organizational Rankings!
In an effort to make the success of an organization more clear, we have introduced the AMSTS Baseball Organizational Rankings. This allows you to play around with the sliders to appropriately weight the value of each league, from MLB to the Rookie League, to see what organization tops your list. Methodology: For the default rankings,…