Bill James

5 posts

  1. 3-Year Batting, Pitching and Fielding Stats

    Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on winning their third World Series in ten years. Narrative and praise can be bestowed upon any player, manager, coach, or executive, for their success the past decade. Many in the…

  2. Hall of Fame Potential by Game Score

    There are six Starting Pitchers on this year's Hall of Fame ballot: Rk HOFs JAWS 1 Roger Clemens 73 99.0 2 Curt Schilling 46 61.4 3 David Wells 40 39.1 4 Jack Morris 39 35.1 5 Woody Williams 14 24.2 6 Aaron Sele 15 17.5…

  3. Average Game Scores for 2011

    Messing around on baseball-reference, on the second night of baseball's winter meetings, I ranked starting pitchers by average Game Score in 2011. "Unhiding non-qualifiers for rate stats" makes the list particularly…

  4. Ranking Pitchers by Win Projections

    Awesome reader Gavin emailed a question in today. He writes... In a real simple season long pool. All it is, is u take 20 pitchers, u get 1 point per win and whoever has the most accumulated wins at the end wins. Have…

  5. Mid June Leaders

    Spending some time this afternoon on the Baseball Reference 2009 MLB Advanced Batting stats page , gave us an enlightened look into the first ten weeks of the season. We were looking at individual stats, and the two…