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Issue One Hundred And Sixty Two.
PFF's Gunner Win Rate measures special teams effectiveness, with Ben Skowronek leading at 33.3% in 2024. StatsBomb analyzes throw-in success using metrics like xG and OBV. Pudding.cool uses advanced metrics to predict Toronto Blue Jays’ lineup. A Substack post highlights the evolution of baseball stats to models like Pythagenpat. Sports Info Solutions evaluates MLB umpire tendencies with metrics like Extra Strikes Per 150 Called Pitches.
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Introducing Gunner Win Rate
Ben Skowronek leads the NFL in Gunner Win Rate for 2024, winning 33.3% of his gunner snaps, a metric newly introduced by PFF to assess the effectiveness of special teams gunners in punt coverage.
Measuring Throw-In Success
Explores how to measure the effectiveness of throw-ins in football, emphasizing that success varies by team strategy—whether creating scoring chances, retaining possession, or regaining territory—while analyzing metrics like xG, OBV, and space creation to illustrate different approaches and outcomes among teams.
Batting by the Numbers
Players' skills were rated using metrics like batting average, isolated power, walk rate, and speed score, then logistic regression and fitting methods predicted lineup positions for the "modern" Toronto Blue Jays, comparing traditional and analytics-driven approaches.
End of Season Statistics, 2024
Describes how their baseball statistics process evolved from manual calculations in 1996 to using Baseball-Reference and spreadsheets, focusing on simple yet accurate methods, with an emphasis on Pythagenpat and acknowledging the limitations and adjustments they made, such as excluding extra-inning runs for cleaner team comparisons
Scouting Home Plate Umpires and Their Tendencies
Some MLB umpires tend to call more or fewer strikes than their peers, and they evaluate their tendencies using metrics like Extra Strikes Per 150 Called Pitches and Strike Zone Runs Saved.
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