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  1. CSteinhardt

    Do pitchers actually want to aim for a donut hole?

    I've been playing around with some of the statcast data and trying to figure out how well we can predict the success of a pitch from the tracking data alone. More broadly, the idea behind FIP was to recognize that pitchers do not control the defenses behind them, so that any attempt to measure...
  2. CSteinhardt

    Late First Rounders -- Now What?

    By the end of the 2016 draft, the Celtics are currently on track to have a roster of something like:   Expected to be major pieces: Olynyk Sullinger Smart [Max contract UFA] 2015 BOS 1st (lottery) 2016 BKN 1st (likely lottery)   Hopefully useful, but not (yet) major pieces: Young Bradley...