Root Mean Squared Musings

The latest release of the baseballr package for R includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes. [Read More]

I have nine nieces and nephews with another one on the way, so the topic of baby names has been floating around pretty consistently over the past few months. When people started throwing around potential names I wanted to see how the popularity of those names had trended over time.... [Read More]

I have nine nieces and nephews with another one on the way, so the topic of baby names has been floating around pretty consistently over the past few months. When people started throwing around potential names I wanted to see how the popularity of those names had trended over time.... [Read More]

For the past few years I’ve released an interactive tool that can be used for fantasy football players. The general idea is the tool combines traditional data, such as projected fantasy points and average draft position, with my custom Consistency metric. This year I’ve updated the tool, building it in... [Read More]

Over the past few years, Darren Willman has made some of the pitch-by-pitch data generated by Statcast available on his baseballsavant.com site. We have only gotten a taste of the kind of data that Statcast can produce, but even that taste is interesting and useful to work with. [Read More]