Measuring Shadows

A while ago I wrote a post  about one of the most unenlightened areas of baseball strategy: the use of pitchers.  I proposed eliminating the...

A month ago I wrote an article looking at changes in San Francisco Giants' starting pitcher Tim Lincecum 's pitch command and veloc...

Earlier a wrote a few posts on what the SF Giants' optimal starting lineup should be using Basim , a baseball simulator I wrote.  A lot...

About ten years ago, baseball started to undergo a statistical revolution: youth became valued, OPS was born, and walks finally became value...

A week ago I proposed a contest for readers to construct the best possible lineup from the 2002 Giants roster; the rules are here and here ...

A week ago, I introduced a contest to design the best lineup from the 2002 Giants roster; details are here and here .  Submissions for the ...

A while ago I wrote a python program, Basim , that simulates baseball games, and used to construct a statistic for the offensive output of a...

What's the best lineup, order included, that can be made from the 2002 San Francisco Giants ?  Think you can come up with a better one t...

Earlier I posted about Basim , a baseball simulator I designed that simulates baseball games based on the stats of people in the lineups.  M...

Long story short: you should make aging all star for prospect trades at the start of the season, instead of at the trade deadline, if you...

Tim Lincecum is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants.  For the first five years  of his career he was one of the best pitchers i...

I'm working on improving  Basim  and  eWAR  (some new content and some bug fixes), but it's going to take time to run the new calcul...

This is continuing a series of posts about a baseball game simulator I made.  For the introductory post, look  here .  For a revised look at...

Earlier I wrote some early results  from a baseball game simulator I wrote.  Here I'll describe exactly how the simulator works. As an...

For the previous post in this series, click  here . First of all, I found a bug in the stealing bases section of my lineup code.  I've...

Welcome to Measuring Shadows, a blog about thoughts, games, and ethics.  We will post about more serious subjects later, but first a foray i...