July 29, 2005

Baseball Prospectus: is making all is content freely available until next Wednesday. There's some great stuff in there for the baseball stat-head types, as well as some good trade rumors columns and other more general interest stuff. Most of the content is typically subscription only.

posted by holden to baseball at 10:46 AM - 6 comments

I buy their book every year, and it's fantastic. However, I don't subscribe to their online content. It's great, and I enjoy the free stuff this week (and the tidbits they normally release each day in the free section), but I still haven't made that leap to paying for online information just yet. But these guys are the closest I've come to taking that final step. Warning: if the concepts of Billy Beane, on-base-percentage or "Derek Jeter is a bad fielder", or complicated statistical analysis makes you angry/upset, this is not the website for you.

posted by grum@work at 12:45 PM on July 29, 2005

Thanks. There's a live chat with said Beane as i type.

posted by catfish at 01:28 PM on July 29, 2005

Thanks alot. There is a ton of info in there

posted by jojomfd1 at 01:34 AM on July 30, 2005

Is there a football prospectus, or another book/website like this, with that much content??

posted by jojomfd1 at 01:39 AM on July 30, 2005

jojomfd1 -- Baseball Prospectus now puts out a Football Prospectus book, which can be ordered through Amazon (there is a link on the BP front page). I can't vouch for the Football Prospectus book, but the BP book is a fantastic tool for fantasy baseball and just for looking at historical numbers and likely future trends. As far as websites are concerned, Football Outsiders is a great site with advanced statistical analysis for football. It's a more SABR-type approach to football stats than you typically get from other sources.

posted by holden at 12:36 PM on July 30, 2005

Thank you very much Holden

posted by jojomfd1 at 04:51 PM on July 31, 2005

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