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Jim Albert

@jimalbert.bsky.social

Bayesian statistician, baseball, tennis enthusiast

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CSV Downloads of Retrosheet Data / Who Controls the Count? Collecting Retrosheet Data One reason behind the contributions in baseball research is the availability of data. Retrosheet was founded in 1989 with the purpose of computerizing baseball game recor…

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A New Chapter with the Astros Working for Teams As many of you know, there has been a great growth in sports analytics in recent years which is demonstrated by the many analysts currently employed by professional sports teams. …

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Print copies should be available in January. The Ebook is available in SpringerLink now.

Code for the examples: lnkd.in/gJ4Jbsgp

R package for the data sets (install from CRAN): RbyExample

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The Colavito and Kuenn Trade Rocky Colavito, a Cleveland baseball All-Star slugger, passed away this week. He was a very popular player for the Indians in the 1950’s β€” recently a statue of Colavito was unveiled in …

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Using Statcast Colors for Pitch Types in R Tom Tango recently posted in BlueSky the color codes for the pitch types that they use in Baseball Savant. He asked me by email if there was a way to create a dictionary or library to represent the…

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Revisiting Pitcher W/L Records Previous Post on W/L Records A couple of years ago, I wrote a post β€œIs a Pitcher’s Win/Loss Record Meaningful?”. This was motivated by Bill Ripken’s belief (stated in his State of…

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Making Sense of Joe Carter’s RBI Introduction β€” Should Joe Carter be in the Hall of Fame? Last week, the 2025 Hall of Fame (HOF) ballot was released. At this time, baseball fans reflect on popular players who have not been i…

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