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Lance Berkman's and Larry Walker's WAR
Trying to find a player similar to Lance Berkman isn't easy. He's fairly low on PECOTA's sim score, and that's probably because Lance is a rather unique player. Finally, I stumbled across ...
Astros Community Projection Project: PECOTA Update
I've yet to go through and figure out where the tweaks we've thrown out on individual players are, but I went through and averaged the CHONE and PECOTA projected wOBA's for the hitters. There we...
An update on the 2009 Astros Prediction Project
**UPDATE** The outs and IP are all accounted for and the PA have been adjusted, per this thread at BtB. I went through the spreadsheet again today and updated the offense to reflect the wOBA as ...
Lance Berkman and Carlos Lee's surplus value to the Astros
With the new release of WAR and fair market value to FanGraphs, it's now pretty easy to see how over or underpaid batters have been. The news this offseason is how hamstrung we are by payroll co...
2009 Astros WAR Project
**UPDATE 5:25PM** I went through and added the value of each player in terms of 2008 Free Agent value, according to the FanGraphs and, I believe, Tom Tango's methodology. Our payroll, the the et...
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