Ballparks Database Updated!
April 30, 2012 by Kevin Johnson · 2 Comments
The Seamheads.com Ballparks Database has now been updated with 2011 data plus the latest and greatest corrections. As a reminder, we provide two sets of calculations: 1-year factors and 3-year factors. The 1-year factors are observed factors, based on only the season in question. While we do use an other parks corrector as described in the […]
And your 2011 World Series Winner is…
October 17, 2011 by Mike Lynch · 4 Comments
About 30 years ago, Bill James introduced a prediction system that picked the World Series winner with 70% accuracy. He wrote about the system for Inside Sports magazine in 1982, then expounded on it in his 1984 Baseball Abstract. He developed the system in 1972 and it accurately predicted the World Series winner at a […]
Bill James’ World Series Predictor Goes With…
October 26, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 2 Comments
More than 25 years ago, Bill James introduced a prediction system that picked the World Series winner with 70% accuracy. He wrote about the system for Inside Sports magazine in 1982, then expounded on it in his 1984 Baseball Abstract. He developed the system in 1972 and it accurately predicted the World Series winner at […]
