Monthly Archives: August 2009

Calculating FIP and WAR from Retrosheet Data, Part 1

By Bryan Packman | Published: August 31, 2009
Ok, I finally have the beginnings (Finally have the beginnings? That doesn’t sound right.) of FIP and WAR calculations for starting pitchers. After parsing pitching data out of retrosheet files from the 2007 season, I calculated FIP and WAR for SP on a per-game level. By taking a weighted average of these game-level [...]
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Off to Minny

By Bryan Packman | Published: August 28, 2009
Going to Minnesota for a short weekend trip. Hopefully I’ll run into a few of those 10,000 lakes, but I doubt I’ll see much more than that ugly, green carpet covered by a big, white balloon. Made a lot of progress on my FIP and WAR calculations last night … almost ready to show some [...]
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Park Factors

By Bryan Packman | Published: August 27, 2009
Oh, it feels good to be back. Yesterday, I spent a full day at the office programming, and then programmed for a few more hours once I got home. After feeling “stuck” at a job I stopped liking, it’s been a while since I’ve felt that passion for something I was working on. [...]
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Weird Things about ERA

By Bryan Packman | Published: August 21, 2009
One of my planned projects during my new found unemployment involves sabermetrics. As a first step, I’m writing scripts to parse Retrosheet files and calculate advanced pitching metrics like FIP and WAR. Along with these advanced metrics, I’m also calculating more traditional stats like ERA. When some of the resulting ERAs in my database [...]
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Just another WordPress weblog

By Bryan Packman | Published: August 18, 2009
I quit my job last week.  I’ve been a LAMP developer for the past two years for an online dating company, and, well, this sums it up pretty nicely. Can’t complain about the job I had. I was paid well, I liked the people I worked with, and I learned a ton about scalability. [...]
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