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Baseball Prospectus (BP) is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well as player and team performance projections on the site.
Christina Kahrl is one of the co-founders of Baseball Prospectus.She is the former executive editor of the think tank's website, BaseballProspectus.com, [1] the former managing editor for their annual publication, former writer and editor for ESPN.com, and is currently sports editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Sabermetrics. Sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics) is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the movement's progenitors, members of the Society for American Baseball ...
Baseball Prospectus' playoff odds currently identify four teams with playoff odds between 40% and 55%: the San Diego Padres, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals and Diamondbacks.
Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA projections give the Brewers 79 wins this year. FanGraphs is a tad more optimistic but at 80 wins still pegs the team to have its first losing full, 162-game season ...
The average projected win total from Vegas, Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA projections and FanGraphs’ projected standings is 78.5 for Milwaukee. Will the Brewers finish higher or lower than that?
PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, [ 1] is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime batting average of .249, is perhaps representative of the typical ...
Keith Woolner (born c. 1968) [1] is an author for Baseball Prospectus and is the creator of the statistic Value Over Replacement Player (VORP). [2] VORP is acknowledged by the sabermetrics community as one of the key concepts in the analysis of a player's performance and market valuation. [citation needed]