There's a great SABR Boston-sponsored sabermetrics forum at the Boston Public Library tomorrow (Saturday May 20). It's free. Here's the schedule:


10:00 Intro

10:15 Steve Miller The Pythagorean Won-Lost Formula in Baseball

10:45 David Grabiner Do Clutch Hitters Exist?

11:15 Mike Gimbel Lively Ball Era vs. Dead Ball Era - More Myth than Reality?

12:00 Lunch [on your own]

1:00 Door prizes

1:10 John Thorn Zanzibar Cats: Discussion of Stats vs Story

2:10 Andy Andres Sabermetrics at Tufts University

2:40 Matt Gallagher The Midseason Managerial Boost

3:10 Bill James Paper Response to "Underestimating the Fog", read by Tom Tippett

3:30 Panel w Tom Tippett Discussion on Bill James paper

4:00 Door Prizes

Here's the link for Underestimating the Fog in case you would like to prepare for the discussion. James wrote the paper, however, so is he responding to the responses to his own paper or...?

Boston rocks. Sometimes I really wish I still lived there. Where else would something like this happen?

Update on the door prizes:

Door prizes include two Sox-Yanks tickets and two Sox-Tampa tickets.

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For those interested, here is an article on the Hartford Courant describing the event at a high level.

I took extensive notes and will be writing up something more comprehensive.

Since I've been lurking (and posting) here, I have never seen a thread devoted to sabermetrics, and the presentation of small-scale (perhaps even simpleton) sabermetric studies. I thought of this recently as I had done a 15-minute expected runs analysis in the "Should Papi Bunt More?" thread. Certainly, if I gave it a couple of hours, I could calculate the success rate necessary to make bunting worthwile for any out/runner situations as well as versus righties and lefties.

Does anyone else think it is a good idea to start such a thread to foster this kind of thing? Or perhaps this stuff, when done (usually by JHB or Abe), is better to be posted in the thread of the topic at hand?

How about this forum?

Oh sure, Miss Smarty Pants

Yeah, I suppose that may be the dumbest question I have ever asked. On this board anyway. Well, today anyway.