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Why Have the Detroit Tigers Faltered? An Answer from Lee Panas of Tiger Tales

June 7, 2008 by

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Both during and after an NBA season I offer posts on individual teams centered around two points of view.  First I look at how many wins a team could have expected given the past performance of the players employed.  I then look at how many wins the team could expect given the current performance of […]

Game One Thoughts

June 7, 2008 by

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When I analyze an entire season I go to all the effort to calculate Wins Produced. When I want to evaluate players in a single game, though, I turn to Win Score and PAWS (Position Adjusted Win Score). Wins Score and PAWS (again) Just to review… Win Score – the simple version of Wins Produced […]

Predictably Irrational – A Book Review

June 7, 2008 by

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Back in January I posted a review of the latest Tim Harford book – The Logic of Life.   Here is how I described this book: “The Logic of Life” can be described as a book that takes the standard assumption of rationality in economics for a ride.  In essence, Harford examines a whole collection of […]