Eastern Conference
The Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association is made up of fifteen teams, and organized in three divisions of five teams each. The three division winners are seeded 1, 2 and 3 for the playoffs in order of their record, with all non-division winners seeded 4 through 8. This leaves open the possibility that a #4 seed could have a better record than a #3 seed. On the other hand, home-court advantage in a playoff series is decided by record, not by seeding, so if a #3 and #4 team met in a playoff series in which the #4 team had the better record, the #4 team would have home-court advantage. The Eastern Conference playoffs is divided into three rounds, with the winner facing the Western Conference champion in the NBA Finals to determine the champion. All playoff series are best-of-seven. The current divisional alignment was adopted at the start of the 2004-05 season, when the Charlotte Bobcats began play as the NBA's 30th franchise. This necessitated the move of the New Orleans Hornets from the Eastern Conference's Central Division to the newly-created Southwest Division of the Western Conference. Full Article on Wikipedia
Andres Torres And Flyballs
Q: Who was the 3rd most valuable position player on the Giants last season by wins above replacement?A: Andres Torres—
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Tiger Woods absence leaves market in limbo
Last month’s emotional press conference did nothing to help the speculation over Tiger Woods so it remains a big doubt whether the world No 1 will be in attendance when The Open Championship returns to St Andrews in July.Tiger Woods was victorious the last time the tournament was played at the Old Course, with his 14-under finish enough to win by five strokes from Colin Montgomerie, and he would have been a short-priced favourite had he confirmed he would be in attendance this time around.
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Labwork: Tale of Two Seasons
A quick graph post tonight before I turn in. I’m trying to come up with a graph that shows the ups and downs of a player’s progress over the course of a season. I know that the praiseworthy FanGraphs has been doing similar graphs for awhile, but I wanted to try my hand at my own style and it’s good Excel formatting practice anyways. These graphs are very simple, they plot BA/OBP/SLG by game. I eventually want to try and do wOBA version since wOBA = the best thing ever.
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Injury Status Spreadsheet
A quick update: I was going to attach this to my previous post but forgot to.
I Can’t Believe I’m Writing About Eugenio Velez
Heaven help me. I can’t believe I’m writing about Eugenio Velez. There’s nothing better (or worse) than STFP (Spring Training Fluff Pieces). Now that baseball is back in action, sportswriters tend to go a little overboard with their spring time pieces. The phenomenon is well known. The latest offense in STFPs? Eugenio Velez.“Velez attacks flaws in hopes of sticking”
Seve Ballesteros sets his sights on St Andrews
seve ballesterosSeve Ballesteros is among 32 former champions who have been invited to take part in a four hole tournament as part of the 150th Open anniversary celebrations on the eve of the Championship proper.
Cheap Relief Arm: Edwar Ramirez
Ah, nothing like cruising around for cheap relief arms with upside. In order to create room for the newly signed Chan Ho Park, the Yankees have DFA’d 29-year-old reliever Edwar Ramirez. You can read the Wikepedia article on the process of DFA, but the meat-and-potatoes lies here:
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Bullpen Management, Do We Give Too Much Credit?
When it comes to evaluating prospects or looking at roster make-up, I’ve always been a little biased against relievers. It’s not that I think all relievers are replaceable, but in the short-term of baseball history, what teams have paid for and what they’ve gotten has been grossly out of proportion when it comes to relief arms. We’ve seen the almighty save stat loose some of it’s luster, but teams generally still spend a good bit on relief arms. Somehow Brandon Lyon got 3 years and $15M from the Astros this offseason.
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Tiger Woods speaks, but golf still waits
In amongst all the promises, the apologies and the admissions, the sporting world learned absolutely nothing about Tiger Woods after he revealed he had no idea when he would be returning to the PGA Tour.Rumours had him returning next week, next month, in time for the Masters, not at all this season or never depending on the source you read, and Friday’s ‘press conference’ did absolutely nothing to stop any speculation about the world No 1’s future.
I’m In The Best Shape of My Life!
Hooray, baseball is back. Well, sorta back. Here’s my annual don’t-worry-too-much-about-Spring-Training post.
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Rentaclub.co.uk – the UK’s first online golf equipment rental service
Rent-A-Club - the UK’s first online golf equipment rental service
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Giants Reach Deal With Lincecum
Our long national nightmare is over. Hot off the presses:The contract is reported to be for two years and $23 million. SI.com reported that Lincecum will receive $8 million in 2010, $13 million in 2011 and a $2 million signing bonus to be split between the two years.
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High Heat vs. Low Heat
Playing around with some PFX tonight. I wanted to plot a graph of fastball height location vs. frequency thrown. I selected Matt Cain and Jeremey Affeldt as comparisons.
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