I love data visualization. I love baseball. Flip Flop Fly Ball is an amazing combination of the two. Inspired by what’s possible with Photoshop and baseball stats, I decided to see what I could do programmatically. My first results are below.
According to Baseball Prospectus, Jacoby Ellsbury is second in the majors in baserunning, with his speed accounting for 4.2 extra runs over the course of the season so far. That’s about three home runs’ worth of extra offense.
It doesn’t take long these days before a player having a career year starts hearing accusations of steroid usage. First of all, baseball is a game largely determined by luck. Second of all, unless your name is Madoff, any endeavor with small sample sizes will show some natural variance in your performance.
But we really need [...]
We’re using separate threads because we don’t have the technology to solve race conditions.
(No, no, we’ve already agreed in advance we’re not making the obvious race joke here.)
12:20pm <Aerion> The room applauded at “and non-believers”. We’re all proud heathens here
12:09pm <Aerion> Bio-units, terminate noise exchange! It is time for you to ingest inaugural [...]
Today’s closer-than-it-should-have-been win by the Patriots over the Seahawks, the loss by the Jets to the 49ers, along with the Dolphins’ win over Buffalo (which apparently took place in Canada of all places) brings all three teams to a three-way tie atop the AFC East.
I don’t really have any analysis of the situation, or any [...]