Crooked Numbers: You Stay Classy, San Diego
2/02After a few years in the fold, one of our own moves on.
Crooked Numbers: More Hilbert Questions
1/12Spinning off of Keith Woolner's work, James Click proffers more questions for analysts to answer in 2006.
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1/05James looks at two unanswered--and unrelated--questions in today's 2-for-1 special.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: The Numbers You Saw
12/29James recaps the 2005 season by revisiting some of his predictions from the Spring.
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12/22James discusses the curious practice of teams acquiring what they already have, and wonders about the notion of Replacement Value in the process.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: Deviation from Standards
12/15James adjusts the way we present information to see if there's anything useful to be learned.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
12/01James takes a look at the crazy offseason market for relievers to see if there's anything we can learn about reliever consistency.
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11/17A look at some of the more unjustified uses of MVP votes in recent memory.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: Today’s Oxymoron Is Free Agents
11/10James looks back at last winter's free agents to see what he can learn about this winter's relative scarcity of quality players.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: Homeland Defense
11/03James takes a look at the year-end Park Adjusted Defensive Efficiency numbers and discovers a new reason for home field advantage.
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10/27James takes a look at the myth that certain hitters only do well against bad pitchers.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: An Appreciation
10/19James, a Bay Area native, honors the late, great Bill King.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: In Need of Relief
10/13With just a few guys getting work in postseason bullpens, James wonders if relievers perform worse when summoned several days in a row.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: Crappy Odds
10/06Winning a playoff series is often seen as a crapshoot. Is it?
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: Still Not Clutch
9/29James makes a key adjustment to his clutch work from last week.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCrooked Numbers: Popping the Clutch
9/22James takes a crack at win probability and the concept of clutch, and discovers that a certain media darling is just not clutch.
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