Author Index

Authors listed below are not necessarily affiliated with Stathead, but all have contributed outstanding research on baseball to the public (i.e. have posted their research findings on a public Web site).

Blau, Clifford

• Offensive Replacment Level

Diamond Mind Baseball

• Pitcher Hold Ratings & Catcher Throwing

Fontaine, Tom

• The Sagarin number, simply!
• Invisible Offense
• Batter Rate Index Grades (BRIG) (Updated and substantially revised on 5/23/98)
• Pitcher Rate Index Grades (PRIG) (Updated and substantially revised on 5/23/98)
• One Year Park Factors:

  1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981

  ANA, BAL, BOS, CHA, CLE, DET, KCA, MIN, NYA, OAK, SEA, TBA, TEX, TOR

  ARI, ATL, CHN, CIN, COL, FLO, HOU, LAN, MIL, MON, NYN, PHI, PIT, SDN, SFN, SLN

Furtado, Jim

• 1997 BTF Ball Park Factors
• BTF Park Effects - Explanation of Methods
• Using BTF Park Factors
• POWER

Gilbert, Bill (or use this alternate email address)

• BPA -- Measuring Offensive Performancegilbert/measoffperf.htm

Glapski, Jefferson

• Run Production in the DH Era

Grabiner, David

• Does Clutch Hitting Exist?
• Batting With RISP
• Can you protect a hitter?
• Major League Equivalencies
• Strike FAQ
• The Sabermetric Manifesto

Jarvis, John F.

• Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
• Apportioned Wins and Losses

Jones,Mike

• rec.sport.baseball FAQ

Lahman, Sean

• Is the pitching lousy or just new?

Moore, Roger

• The Effect of Batting Order on Runs Scored

Morong, Cyril -- articles hosted on Clifford Blau's site

• How Hitting and Pitching Contribute to the Success of Division Winners

Pankin, Mark -- Articles on Markov modelling and Batting Order Optimization

• Finding Better Batting Orders
• Subtle Aspects Of The Game
• Speed, Strikeouts, (Base Advancement), and Scoring
• Markov Chain Models

Pease, David

• Rob Deer Fan Club

Rawdon, Michael

• The Value Of A Baseball Player

Royko, Mike -- the late columnist for the Chicago Tribune

• The Ex-Cub Factor -- hosted on Benjamin Fleischer's homepage

Shauger, Stephen

• Favorite Toy

Spira, Greg

• Pitching To The Score

Tomlinson, Stephen

• How Joe got 102 RBI's in 1997

Wolverton, Michael

• Support Neutral Win-Loss Records

Woolner, Keith

• Field General Or Backstop: Evaluating the Catcher's Influence on Pitcher Performance
• Catching Up With The General: A Postscript
• 2000 VORP totals for hitters
• 2000 VORP totals for pitchers
• 1999 VORP totals for hitters
• 1999 VORP totals for pitchers
• Statistics Glossary
• On Replacement Level and VORP
• A description of Marginal Lineup Value (MLV)
• 1998 VORP totals for hitters (updated weekly)
• 1998 VORP totals for pitchers (updated weekly)
• Knapsack Optimization and the Budget Planning Problem
• VORP (Value Over a Replacement at a Position)
• The VORP MVP's (top offensive VORP's for all seasons through 1995)
• 1997 VORP totals for hitters
• 1997 VORP totals for pitchers
• 1996 VORP totals for hitters
• 1996 VORP totals for pitchers.
• RBI's are meaningless???
• Peak ages for hitters
• Forecasting pitchers: The "K"-rystal ball
• 1996 Estimated pitcher's quality of opposition
• Competitive Ecology
• The First Stathead
• I, Stathead
• Long Live the DH!
• Cal Ripken and Roberto Alomar -- the best DP combo of all time?
• Forecasting batters: The "K"-rystal ball