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FiveThirtyEighter Nate Silver Answers Your Questions About Politics,...
We recently solicited your questions for Nate Silver regarding his new book The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t. Not too surprisingly, a lot of the questions were...
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Money Didn’t Buy Happiness in Baseball in 2012
(Photo: Anthony Storo) If you wish to win in baseball, your team has to spend money. Just look at the New York Yankees. USA Today reports that in 2012 the Yankees led the American League in spending....
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The All-Star Game Incentive?
(Photo: Loren Javier) The Tigers (bravo!) and Giants are in the World Series, with possibly 4 of 7 games to be played in San Francisco. The majority of games will be played there because the extra game...
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Does the “Best” Team Win the World Series?
(Photo: Eric) It’s been a few days. And although I ain’t over it yet, I think I can write about the Detroit Tigers losing the World Series. When the playoff in baseball began, 10 teams – and their fans...
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The Man Who Changed Professional Sports
Marvin Miller passed away last week. When this happened I immediately began work on a post detailing the important impact Miller’s work — as the first leader of the Major League Baseball Players...
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More on Ty Cobb From His Biographer’s Son
(Photo: Aaron Webb) Our “Legacy of a Jerk” podcast covered the notorious legacy of baseball great Ty Cobb, whom history has recorded as an ungracious and vicious human being. But the writer Charlie...
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t the Government Fix Sporting Events?
This blog has clever readers. One of them, Corey Forbes, writes in to say: We know that point shaving, game throwing, match fixing, and referee scandals have existed in professional and college sports...
View ArticleThose Brutal Ballplayers
Too much cheating, substance abuse, and violence among baseball players? Absolutely — 100 years ago. A great read from Tobias Seamon* in The Morning News: Ty Cobb had a nervous breakdown in his rookie...
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More Predictions, From Bad to Worse
(Photo: Josh McGinn) Our “Folly of Prediction” podcast made these basic points: Fact: Human beings love to predict the future. Fact: Human beings are not very good at predicting the future. Fact:...
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Why Masahiro Tanaka’s Yankees Contract Is Good for Baseball
(Photo: Reading Tom) A few days ago, the New York Yankees signed Masahiro Tanaka to a $155 million contract. As Bryan Hoch of MLB.com notes, this is the fifth-highest salary for a pitcher in Major...
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