November 12, 2004

Who's Slacking in the No-No Department?:
Bill James' love letter to Rob Neyer about the most unlikely pitcher to have never thrown a no-hitter.

posted by yerfatma to baseball at 08:38 AM - 13 comments

I think that's a pretty interesting way to crunch the numbers.. nice find.

posted by blarp at 09:40 AM on November 12, 2004

Very interesting. And Bumpus Jones to boot! Thanks for the link, fatty.

posted by Ufez Jones at 09:47 AM on November 12, 2004

Interesting use of data. Always curious as to why these things are published. This is interesting stuff but what is it good for? Dont we tend to get a bit carried away with Stats??

posted by daddisamm at 09:59 AM on November 12, 2004

Sports are interesting stuff, but what are they good for?

posted by tieguy at 10:35 AM on November 12, 2004

The internets are interesting stuff, but what are they good for?

posted by rocketman at 11:00 AM on November 12, 2004

I find these stats a million times more interesting than baseball itself. I don't know if I could watch an entire inning of baseball, but I could read shit like this for hours..

posted by blarp at 11:00 AM on November 12, 2004

That's interesing, blarp, because I had the opposite reaction. I can appreciate the effort to study sport scientifically, this kind of stat-crunching bores me to tears.

posted by dusted at 11:50 AM on November 12, 2004

I love this sort of stat-crunching. Mainly because I'll spend HOURS doing it on my own, just for kicks. /math geek

posted by grum@work at 12:35 PM on November 12, 2004

the actual book that his comes out of is pretty intersting....especially the 'guide to pitchers' that makes up the bulk of the book-a listing of a great deal of the pitchers of any significance in baseball,with a listing of their pitches...interesting because they sneak in a few FICTIONAL pitchers as well..including Sydd Finch and even Charlie Brown..but they forgot...NUKE LALOOSH....

posted by NYSSoftballBlue at 01:08 PM on November 12, 2004

Interesting in small doses like this to me.

posted by billsaysthis at 01:15 PM on November 12, 2004

I've got the N/J GtP book in the nightstand queue, maybe I'll get to it at Thanksgiving.

posted by mbd1 at 01:59 PM on November 12, 2004

More Jamesian analysis: Bill on the 2004 playoffs.

posted by yerfatma at 10:53 AM on November 13, 2004

thanks, guys. even this australian understood the stats. normally baseball statistical minutiae turns me off, but no-hitters are something special

posted by owlhouse at 12:21 AM on November 14, 2004

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