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A Sabermetric Look at the 2014 Playoff Teams

In a previous blog I talked about two important sabermetric formulas. Bill James’s Formula is Win% = (Runs Scored)2 / [(Runs Scored)2 + (Runs Allowed)2] and Stan “The Stats Man” Formula is Win% = 0.000683*[(Runs Scored) – (Runs Allowed)] +.50. James’s formula is called the Pythagorean Formula for Baseball and Stan’s Formula is called the Linear Formula …

A Sabermetric Approach to Predicting Major League Standings

Bill James, the Father of Sabermetrics,  introduced his ”Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball”.  His theorem provides a formula to predict a team’s winning percentage (W%)  using the runs scored (RS) and runs allowed (RA) by the team for a season.  Sabermetrics uses mathematics (especially Statistics) to make objective baseball decisions. The Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball states: …

The Little League World Series Brings All People Together

Since the 1970s, Ferguson, Mo. has gone from being 85 percent white to about 70 percent black and is a suburb which is considered inner-city today. Following the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, we witnessed an uprising of racial tension leading to violence between the whites and blacks. During …