Amazing

This is knowledge that must be capitalized upon somehow.

Numbers, stat!

Placed my order for my three annual baseball books (for about a decade now), plus second editions of a couple more recent additions to the collection.

Within a few days, these two will be on my coffee table and/or at my bedside:



And as they're released in February, these will get added to the pile.



Oh. Baby.

I cannot tell you how many times I've read 2007's first edition of The Fielding Bible, or 2008's Gold Mine. And the Hardball Times Annual? Chock full of good shit every year.

Of course, I've got Anathem to work on too. It will be a good Winter/Spring for reading. Then again, it always is.

The coolest thing in the history of things

The pictures and videos at this post are fantastic! Follow the link to the BBC site too.

Beautiful.

For political junkies

Cool statistics/polling site, written by a guy from Baseball Prospectus.

Numbers and pie-charts and cartograms, oh my!

Geekery that boggles

It's a beautiful thing.

This guy has graphical representations and various ranking algorithms for any baseball number you want. And counting.

Oh, the hours I could spend here, if I didn't have shit to do.

Blogrolling

I've updated the sports section of my blogroll.

I've been reading the latest additions for quite a while, but forgot to add them.

Fire Joe Morgan - the name alone would be enough, as Joe Morgan is the biggest idiot in the universe of color-guy idiots. But the snark and statistically logical goodness that backs up the truth behind the snark is what I love. This post is the perfect introduction, if you've never read them before. And here's another one.

Flotsam Media - I've already posted about the greatest blog post in the history of blogs. But they bring the funny and the true almost every day.

Shysterball - Just good damned commentary and news.

Vegas Watch - Comentary, odds, commentary on odds, links.

That is all.

The greatest blog post in the history of blogkind

Would be this one.

You see, it's beautifully, amazingly, ridiculously funny, in a completely esoteric way. You get it, or you have no fucking idea what's going on.

"But there a million funny posts out there, full of esoterica," you say? Well, you are correct. I must grant you that.

They didn't take this much math. And they weren't about baseball. So they lose.

This one's for you, Mike.

Oh happy day!

Today, my copy of the 2008 edition of this wonderfully nerdtastic book arrived in the mail. One of the three baseball books I buy every year, and probably the best of the three.

Cryptonomicon will have to take a break for a couple days while I do my cover-to-cover browse of all this statistical goodness.

Then I'll slowly attack the hard-core analyses chapter by chapter, especially the new WPA and defense stuff.

Mmmm, numbers.

I should have been a fucking actuary.

Fucking cats...

See my little Clustermap on the right?

See it?

Here is the one for I Can Has Cheezburger?


Oh... and a LOLcat for Star Trek nerds.

How bad are you? Well, you suck. But you don't rank for all-time suckage. So you have that going for you. Which is nice.

More baseball geekery.

I have arrived

My 881st visitor found me via a Bloglines search for "naked girls."

Oh, by the way, Britney Spears, porn, XXX, nude, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton.

Some baseball statistics nerdery

I love this shit.

More Sitemeter geekery

Of course, I skew those numbers because when I first go to the page, I'm not automatically logged in, so that counts as a visit. Those Mac numbers are mostly me.

Statistics geekery

I was playing with sitemeter during my lunch break, and checked out the maps. Way cool.

Started in North America. Hey, Canada! No idea who that is.


Zoom out to the world map, and I'm surprised to see London!


I'm bad. I'm worldwide.

And considering what a numbers/stats geek I am, I need to ration my sitemeter browsing, or I'll never get anything done. Believe me, it's not about vanity. It's my OCD attitude toward measurables. Charts and graphs? Yes, please.

Don't even get me started on baseball...