Category Archives: Tech

A Personal Reminder of Where I Stand on Net Neutrality

By Bryan Packman | Published: October 29, 2009
In the spring of 2008, I made my first attempt at blogging. The blog only lasted about 10 posts until I eventually lost interest. The site’s no longer up, but I have the wordpress database backed up, and I may decide to republish these early posts at some point. This morning, I decided to [...]
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Net Neutrality Video Dump

By Bryan Packman | Published: October 27, 2009
Glenn Beck is misinformed, and a jackass: Rachel Maddow is well-informed, and intelligent: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy And of course, Jon Stewart is awesome:
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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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