If you’re in a bowling league, you wouldn’t expect people to track how good you’ll be in actual competition based on what you rolled just messing around with your friends. Yet, in the world of baseball, we attempt to keep track of wOBA and wRC+ for the 28~35 games that don’t even count. […]
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Stat Chat: Swinging At Some Swing Metric Truths And Myths
March 15, 2025 | 2025 Fantasy Baseball | 4 Commentsby: SandwichPick
If you’re as online as a normal Razzball reader would be, you’ve seen a lot of talk about MLB Statcast’s new bat tracking metrics. Bat Tracking data was officially introduced to the public last year on May 13, starting with data for the 2024 season, and since then they’ve backfilled data up to the All […]
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February 28, 2025 | 2025 Fantasy Baseball | 2 Commentsby: SandwichPick
If you’ve heard of the Three Body Problem, you know that while it is possible to model the movement of two objects orbiting each other in space, it is impossible to accurately model the movement of three (or more) objects orbiting each other in space Modeling a baseball lineup over the course of a 162 […]
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