Bill James Answers All Your Baseball Questions
Bill James I sure hope the Red Sox don’t start the season with a wicked slump. If so, people might blame this blog. When we solicited your questions for Bill…
Bill James I sure hope the Red Sox don’t start the season with a wicked slump. If so, people might blame this blog. When we solicited your questions for Bill…
Bill James If the name Bill James doesn’t mean anything to you, then you are probably not a baseball fan and have no need to read further. If, however, you…
We’re quite fond of Bill James in these parts. The baseball-stats guru and sabermetrics pioneer brought a level of scientific analysis to baseball that has changed the game. He’s appeared…
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…your ninth-place hitter can set things up for the top of the lineup. I particularly like what Bill James had to say in Everson’s article about why most managers do…
…I ran this by Bill James on his website. His comment was that the only downside he saw was the part about attracting top starting pitchers. He also said that,…
…looks, so I don’t think this strategy is going to work. Sorry! Q. Have you noticed any ways that beauty is a double edged sword? Bill James had a…
…within their budget by buying wins for less. Using statistical analysis and ideas popularized by sabermetrician Bill James, but largely ignored by baseball insiders, the A’s found good players they…
…that Bill James did a lot of his early work while he was a night watchman at a bean factory, but what’s the Bill Barnwell story? – Jon A. About…
America’s favorite statistical guru answers our FREAK-quently Asked Questions, and more.
Photo: j9sk9s If you’re the kind of sports stat-head who loves that the Bill James movement has become mainstream in baseball, and you wonder why basketball doesn’t pay more attention…
…On his list: The Bill James Baseball Abstracts, Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, How Animals Work, The Honest Rainmaker and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen…
…grumbled that football has been slow to embrace a Sabermetric approach to the game (see Bill James here, on baseball; see Mike Zarren here, on basketball). It seems that football…
According to this article in Wired, a man named Dean Oliver is trying to do for basketball what Bill James and Billy Beane did for baseball: create and exploit new…
…to close this post with the words of Bill James (as noted in Miller’s autobiograph): And that is what makes Miller special to the history of the game, that he…
Levitt and I have a column in this Sunday’s Times Magazine about the attempt to bring to the sport of basketball the intense statistical analysis that Bill James has made…
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle….
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit…
