It’s time for real, live playoff baseball. Or as sabermetricians like to call it: the season where weird stuff happens. The playoffs are entirely different from the regular season, with an emphasis on top-tier starting pitching and the savvy usage of strong late-inning relief. Sabermetrics researchers have struggled in vain for years to pinpoint a […]
Dedicated (or even casual!) readers of our NFL, NBA, tennis or soccer coverage probably know that FiveThirtyEight loves it some Elo ratings. The Elo system, originally designed by a Hungarian-American physicist to rank competitive chess players, can be easily adapted to assess just about any form of competition, telling us who’s good and bad at […]
Dedicated (or even casual!) readers of our NFL, NBA, tennis or soccer coverage probably know that FiveThirtyEight loves it some Elo ratings. The Elo system, originally designed by a Hungarian-American physicist to rank competitive chess players, can be easily adapted to assess just about any form of competition, telling us who’s good and bad at […]
Where to begin with the Washington Nationals? How does a team that was projected to win 95 games finish so far from the playoffs? How does a team with Max Scherzer and two of the best young players in baseball, Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg, muddle their way through the second half of the season? […]
Where to begin with the Washington Nationals? How does a team that was projected to win 95 games finish so far from the playoffs? How does a team with Max Scherzer and two of the best young players in baseball, Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg, muddle their way through the second half of the season? […]
