Stolen Signs
Kendall Guillemette and Harry Pavlidis discuss baseball statistics, as well as look for the stories and people behind the stats.
Displaying all 7 Episode of Stolen Signs with the tag “stats”.
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Episode 10: Looking back at PECOTA
October 12th, 2017 | 1 hr 16 mins
baseball, projection, sabermetrics, stats
We start by talking about projection systems in general, then dive into 2017 PECOTA team projections. We look to see how adding in actual playing time affects the team totals. Then we talk about individual players that out-performed and under-performed their PECOTA projections.
This Week I Learned:
Harry learns that "bullpenning" is a thing, sort of, maybe, kind of. (h/t Matt Trueblood)
Kendall learns to make adjustments in parenting, just like hitters like Mike Trout have had to make adjustments to high fastballs. (h/t to Jeff Sullivan) -
Episode 6: Baseball and Psychology with Dan Brooks and Russell Carleton
September 8th, 2017 | 1 hr 9 mins
baseball, performance, psychology, sabermetrics, stats
This week Harry and Kendall welcome Dan Brooks from Brooks Baseball and Russell Carleton from Baseball Prospectus. We talk with Dan and Russell about how baseba
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Episode 5: Sabermetrics Timeline
September 1st, 2017 | 1 hr 1 min
baseball, sabermetrics, stats
Harry Pavlidis and Kendall Guillemette go through a rough outline of the history of sabermetrics.
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Episode 4: Stats and Storytellers with Jonah Keri
August 25th, 2017 | 1 hr 12 mins
baseball, sabermetrics, stats
This is the first in a new recurring series called Stats and Storytellers. We're excited to welcome Jonah Keri as our first guest.
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Episode 3: Not Just Academic: Rob Arthur and Jim Albert on the Hot Hand
August 17th, 2017 | 1 hr 12 mins
baseball, sabermetrics, stats
This week we talked to Rob Arthur of FiveThirtyEight and Jim Albert, professor of mathematics and statistics at Bowling Green State University about Rob's artic
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Episode 2: DIPs, FIP, DRA and You
August 15th, 2017 | 1 hr 25 mins
baseball, dra, fip, pitching, sabermetrics, stats
We briefly recap SaberSeminar 2017, answer a listener email about how to learn more about baseball stats, and we have a discussion about pitching metrics w/ Jon
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Episode 1: Welcome to the Stolen Signs Podcast
August 1st, 2017 | 55 mins 21 secs
baseball, sabermetrics, stats
This is episode 1 of the Stolen Signs podcast, a new podcast from the stats team at Baseball Prospectus.