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Will the lessons of Gilbert Brule echo with Oilers fans?

James Shields' BABIP and inning totals over each of the last four seasons: 2006: .332 (124.2) 2007: .292 (215) 2008: .292 (215, not a misprint) 2009: .317 (219.2) League average BABIP against is...

A different youtube video every day, just to get you sufficiently pumped.Props to whoever recorded this. There's nothing like a college football student section (except maybe a college basketball...

We did this a while ago, may as well do it again. Let's see what homerun range Carlos Pena is looking at. Balls in play over the last two years: 2007: 355 2008: 328 Amount of flyballs: 2007:...

People as a whole will never accept advanced statistics because they are bad at math. The MSN website has an article up on it's main page right now talking about the odds of winning the lottery;...

I had originally written several paragraphs about how there are some Ohio State fans who need to relax. I mean, sure, the team isn't as awesome as we'd all hoped, but they aren't bad. They're 6-1,...

We're halfway through the season (time flies, doesn't it?), which makes this a reasonable time to take a look at some statistics. It's always interesting to compare what we think we know about the...

If you've been reading every single OSU preview you can get your hands on (like I have), you've probably seen a stat like this one a time or two: - Penalties: Ohio State 72 for 574 yards -...