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George William James (born October 5, 1949) [1] [2] is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics.
Pythagorean expectation is a sports analytics formula devised by Bill James to estimate the percentage of games a baseball team "should" have won based on the number of runs they scored and allowed. Comparing a team's actual and Pythagorean winning percentage can be used to make predictions and evaluate which teams are over-performing and under ...
LABR was the first high-profile fantasy sports experts league of its kind. Formed by John Hunt, the fantasy baseball columnist for USA Today Baseball Weekly, the league was first formed in 1994 and featured such celebrities as Peter Gammons, Keith Olbermann and Bill James. [1]
I drafted Marte on many teams last year, when he was selected between picks 75-100. But now that he requires a top-30 selection, I’m out. The 31-year-old’s 36 homers from 2024 were out of ...
[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2024 MLB season] Fantasy and real-life predictions for the NL East. 1. Atlanta Braves. 2. Philadelphia Phillies (Wild Card) 3. New York Mets. 4.
Red Sox adviser Bill James wants MLB to take steps to eliminate 'dangerous' bat tosses.
James explains in his book, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, why he believes runs created is an essential thing to measure: With regard to an offensive player, the first key question is how many runs have resulted from what he has done with the bat and on the basepaths.
Game score is a metric devised by Bill James as a rough overall gauge of a starting pitcher's performance in a baseball game. It is designed such that scores tend to range from 0–100, with an average performance being around 50 points.