The Last 4 Years: Part 4 (Wins & Payroll Correlation)

So I recently finished up my first statistics class in college (of course I got an easy A) and learned quite a few things I could use for this here little blog of mine. Some people are always insisting the more you spend the more you are GUARANTEED to win. So my assignment for today [...]

The Last 4 Years: Part 3 (Payroll & Attendance)

Sorry I’ve been pretty sick this past week so I didn’t get to this as soon as I would have liked but better late than never. Anyways on to Part 3 of my series….THE LAST 4 YEARS: Payroll and Attendance. In this post I wanted to discuss some of the numbers that are recorded off [...]

The Last 4 Years: Part 2 (Playoffs)

So here it is part 2 of the saga known only as “THE LAST 4 YEARS”. In this episode we’ll discuss the playoffs. This makes my research a little easier because I’m actually eliminating 6 teams. Why? Because easily enough they have not made the playoffs in that time frame. So this will be the [...]

The Last 4 Years: Part 1 (Regular Season)

The name Matt Holliday brings a chill to my spine. The name Tim McClelland brings a shudder. But more importantly those two names combined brought an end to my wonderful 2007 baseball season. Yes I admit it the “loss-that-not be-mentioned” hurt quite a bit and actually caused me to become a shut in and turn [...]