The Pastime

[No, not the steak finder, although I could use one of those.]
As some of you may have noticed, the fine folks who run Baseball-Reference introduced the Play Index a few months ago. (a hat tip goes to Jeff Sackmann at Beyond the Boxscore for linking to it)
The Play Index basically takes all the goodness of […]

In the latest chapter of my ongoing saga with umpire statistics, I’ve refined the graphs, and added new features like averages and standard deviation.
I also pared the data down to looking at just six umpires this time around. I picked them at random from the outliers on the scatterplot I did earlier.
The umpires are John […]