Michael Lewis on Shane Battier and "sabermetric" analysis in basketball.
An interesting article over at Basketball Prospectus on using Pomeroy's numbers in the tournament. The second to last table, about 3/4 of the way down, is the most relevant one; no surprises there, but it's always nice to confirm that KPom's stats do, in fact, work.
More CHONE: NL East, NL Central, NL West. The standard deviation of his projections is a lot lower than PECOTA's this year, which is interesting.
Chris Mottram on Scott Van Pelt's radio show.
Jhonny Peralta on playing third base: "The only good thing is I don't have to move as much."
Good stuff on how park factors affect different types of hitters.
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