The greatest difference between today’s young athlete and my own experience as a young athlete is that I played the sport of the season from football to basketball to baseball. A 2008 survey by the National Council of Youth Sports found that one in four of the 60 million children surveyed, ages 6 to 18, …
Throughout my baseball and statistics course at Quinnipiac University, I encouraged my students to write postings for my blog. This will be the first student posting. Other student postings will follow. But, I will also be keeping my readers up to date on the future signings of the more than 150 free agents still unsigned. …
As mentioned in my Blog: Baseball and Television Grow in Popularity Together, certain individual baseball games shown on television had an enormous impact on baseball’s popularity. This blog will highlight a game which is considered one of those special games. The date was October 3, 1951. The game was Game 3 of a three-game playoff …
After writing two blog postings about television ratings and baseball, I decided to research the history of the symbiotic relationship between baseball and television. The information that follows was discovered from documents published by the Baseball Hall of Fame. My first surprise was discovering when and where the first televised game was. The date was …
By Alex Everett The funny thing about baseball is that what we expect to happen doesn’t always happen. As I posted in my last article the Mets were the only team with a positive run differential (+11) and a losing record (79-83). Using Dr. Stan’s formula to predict winning percentage (Winning Percentage = .000683*(runs scored …
In my last blog posting I presented an argument proposed by some people that National TV ratings should not be used to compare the popularity of the World Series (WS) to the popularity of the Super Bowl because the World Series is a regional event whereas the Super Bowl is a national event. The 2014 …
The 2014 World Series between San Francisco and Kansas City is underway. Outside of Kansas City and San Francisco does anyone care? In the locker room at my workout facility in Cheshire, Ct. I asked several people two questions. Have you watched any of the World Series games? Are you interested in who wins the …
As said in the previous blog posting by Dr. Stan “The Stats Man”, the Mets were the only team in 2014 with a winning season and a losing record. A winning season means the subtraction of their runs allowed from their runs scored for the 2014 season was positive. This difference is called their run …
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 …
George Shuba died on Sept 29, 2014 at the age of 89. He was the last living Brooklyn Dodger who appeared in the final game of the 1955 World Series, the only one won by the Dodgers in their Brooklyn history. In that game he pinch-hit for Don Zimmer and grounded out. This game was …