In The Lab: Houston Astros Marginal Utility
In Economics, there is a fairly basic concept known as the law of marginal utility. We usually explain…
In The Lab: Jose Altuve and the HOF Index
It often is hard to separate analysis and fandom. If you ask most Astros fan to name the…
In The Lab: A Look at Former Astros OF Carlos Beltran
We have hit the lull in between the hot stove league and Spring Training. There will be more…
In The Lab: Astros Bullpen Projections
Last time, we took a look at starting pitcher projections for ERA. We will do the same here…
In The Lab: Houston Astros Starting Pitcher Projections
We looked at Astros hitter projections a couple of weeks ago and the natural follow up would be…
In The Lab: An Historical Look at the Astros Offense
Often, the biggest problem with complex statistics is that there is not a good enough frame of reference.…
In The Lab: Astros Batters and Secondary Average
One of the things we want to do in the lab is to find as many different ways…
In the lab: Fun with Projections
it is a new year and with new years come all kinds of possibilities. One of the fun…
In the lab: Expectations for Tatsuya Imai
There are certainly projections for all of the Astros pitchers and some sources have provided them for Tatsuya…
In the lab: Bullpen BPO
Obviously, things have changed considerably in the last 24 hours. The signing of Tatsuya Imai changes the pitching…
In the lab: Starting Pitcher BPO
Look around the Astros fansphere and you will see no other topic of conversation that has resonated as…
In the Lab: Right Field BPO
We finish our trip through the diamond in right field. Ironically, the combined output by the two primary…