If you have missed all 5 pieces in “The Playoffs are a Crapshoot” well…tough! You should’ve been reading Braves Journal more, ya twit!
Nah, just joshing. Here are the links to the first 5 parts:
… Finish ReadingIn case you missed the first 4 parts of “Playoffs are a Crapshoot”, here they are:
In case you missed the first 3 parts of “Playoffs are a Crapshoot”, here they are:
In the previous installment, we estimated … Finish Reading
Before we get to Jonathan F’s brilliance, Playoffs are a Crapshoot Part 3, Here are Notes from Matt L:
Last night, we successfully migrated BravesJournal to a new host. This officially gives Ryan and the community full access/ownership to … Finish Reading
If you missed the first piece in “Playoffs are a Crapshoot”, it provided a basic overview of what will be discussed and you can find it here.
There are 10 teams that make the playoffs every year, six division winners … Finish Reading
It was Billy Beane in Moneyball who famously remarked, “The playoffs are a crapshoot”. The argument goes that whatever assiduousness and craft goes into producing a winning regular season team, the outcome of the playoffs is random. I want to … Finish Reading
There’s been speculation here at several points about whether the Braves 2018 edition is streaky. The main reason we might want an answer to that question is the supposition that a streaky team will have trouble when they get … Finish Reading
With 40 games in the hopper, this seems like a convenient time to take a closer look at how the Braves’ offense is stacking up against its NL peers (all numbers through 5/15).
Braves OPS by position (w/NL rank):
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I started this little excursion to try and figure out why baseball has such a small home field advantage. I had a theory that I could explain it through baseball’s differential travel behavior. That hypothesis failed pretty miserably. But I … Finish Reading
Note from Alex: The previous piece in this series, Part 3, was pre-empted by rumors about the Upton trade within hours of publication. I’m linking to it here, so that you can go back and read it.
I started … Finish Reading
