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Bat Flips and Nerds Minor League Free Agent Draft

January 23, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Inspired by Effectively Wild, the best baseball podcast on that side of the Atlantic, we at Bat Flips and Nerds decided to embark on our own Minor League Free Agent Draft. To spice up the event, we pitted ourselves against

Records, Damned Records and Statistics

February 1, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

When I was a kid, I liked watching any sport that was on TV. Football was by far my favourite, but anything on Grandstand, World of Sport or Sportsnight had me hooked. Every four years, I avidly watched the Olympics,

Chasing Probabilities and The Postseason Crapshoot

October 10, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

The end of the regular season is the time of the season when I check the playoff odds every day, to see how much they have changed. As I have said with WAR in my previous pieces, these are values

Checking the Fundamentals of WAR – Part 2– The Hitter & Pitcher Split

September 16, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

In the first piece, here, I discussed checking the replacement level for WAR. This was re-blogged by Tom Tango and led to a discussion with him and Mitchel Lichtman, one of the other co-authors of The Book (a seminal sabermetric

Checking the Fundamentals of WAR – Part 1 – A 1000 wins above replacement

September 5, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

My day job is in the world of data science and in it I build evaluation and prediction models. All of these models are built on certain assumptions that I hold to be true and although I update the models

Bat Flips And Nerds Fantasy Baseball Guide – Episode 1

January 23, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Podcast

Tom and Darius are here to guide you through the very basics of Fantasy Baseball. What is Fantasy Baseball? What are the different types of leagues? What are the different methods of scoring points? How does the draft work? What

How to measure a pitchers overall performance?

December 1, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

The question of how good someone is at a task extends beyond baseball. In professional sports where there are now very large sums of money involved in player development and contracts, it has become a question people want to be

1st Half Vs 2nd Half Comparisons – Hitters

October 4, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball, Pinch Hitting

In MVP voting, recency bias is going to be a factor and that can’t be helped. With that in mind, I wondered who were the top performers for the first half of the season vs the second half. Fangraphs has