Analytics Backlash
The Analytics Backlash: Are Teams Overcorrecting?
Several MLB teams have publicly pulled back from analytics-heavy decision-making. The Twins fired their analytics department. The Mariners restructured theirs.
Data-driven visual essays that make the invisible physics of baseball visible. Spin rates, swing decisions, and probability shifts, designed to be felt, not just read.
150 years of baseball. 20,000+ careers. Pick your ballot from the data. WAR, peak value, postseason performance, and the arguments that never end.
The forces behind every pitch, every swing, every season. Free.
Several MLB teams have publicly pulled back from analytics-heavy decision-making. The Twins fired their analytics department. The Mariners restructured theirs.
WAR is the most cited and least understood stat in baseball. Learn how it measures wins above replacement, its six components, and how to read leaderboards.
Speed-first top-100 prospects fail at 55%. Hit-tool prospects at 35%. Power at 45%. Scouting grades five tools equally, but the outcomes are not equal.
Data-driven analysis of baseball's biggest shifts. No fluff, no gatekeeping.
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