AL East Positional Analysis And Ranking: Right Field

February 17, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment

I am in the midst of a series examining the relative strengths and weaknesses of the teams in the AL East, on a position-by-position basis. The players at each position are being ranked in relation to their peers within the division, with each team being assigned points based on where their player ranks in comparison […]

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2010 Season Presents Puzzling Mathematical Results

September 27, 2010 by Jess Coleman · 1 Comment

If you can understand correlations, you can begin to understand something essential to success in baseball. Why? Because correlations show how one variable affects another variable. For example, we can see how strikeouts influence runs scored, and we would find that there is no notable correlation (actually true). The dictionary describes a correlation as a […]

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