Recent Advances

Exit velocities, launch angles, distances, ‘barrels’ — do more stats describing how a ball is hit make us smarter about baseball, or make the game more fun?

This course will follow up on the concepts learned in Inside Baseball: Analytics in Action. With the help of Pitchf/x and Statcast, baseball has made major advances in analytics in the 21st century, more so than any other American sports league. With new information available, not only are teams better able to evaluate their players, but fans also are able to consume the game like never before. From additional ways to research the game to more dynamic statistical analysis on broadcasts, the information revolution in baseball is here to stay. This course will explore in depth how tracking technology—from pitch location to spin rate and everything in between—has impacted, and will continue to impact, America’s favorite pastime. Guests will include members of the sabermetric community and other baseball industry representatives.

Big Data Confidential is about how the Pirates used the latest advances in baseball statistics to achieve a winning season for the first time in 20 years. It is also about the marriage of sabermetrics and scouting to produce winning baseball.

This week marks the second edition of the SABR Analytics Conference, in Phoenix (http://sabr.org/analytics).

Sabermetrics are a big part of baseball these days. With just a little time investment, you'll find they're pretty easy to understand.

Baseball ProGUESTus: The Secret History of Sabermetrics.

Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary.

Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary.

I am a life long baseball fan. I learned the great game of baseball from my father, who learned it from his father, and I have since passed the lessons of the game on to my son.

The Top Five Technological Advancements in MLB History.

Bill James defined sabermetrics as “the search for objective knowledge about baseball.” Thus, sabermetrics attempts to answer objective questions about baseball, such as “which player on the Red Sox contributed the most to the team’s offense?”

A sabermetric primer: Understanding advanced baseball metrics.

If you've got questions about particular sabermetric statistics or concepts, this is your place.

Advanced stats might seem like a complicated foreign language, but becoming conversational is actually very easy. Learn how to analyze a hitter's numbers.

The Official Site of Major League Baseball.