Tag Archives: sabermetrics

Park Factors

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. It feels [...]
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Weird Things about ERA

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 did [...]
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