The Best baseball blog posts from around the web http://baseball.blogdig.net/ 2009-11-22T05:18:25-04:00 http://baseball.blogdig.net/ http://baseball.blogdig.net/template/images/backgrounds/headers.jpg text/html 2009-11-22T01:05:00-04:00 http://baseball.blogdig.net/ blogdig.net http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bottom9/~3/8carIHgcQZk/Weekend_Update__Castillo__Halladay_and_Other_Cubs_Rumors.html The Chicago Cubs made a little noise last week with the two-year, $7.5 million deal for John Grabow and send Aaron Heilman to Arizona for a pair of prospects. Then Friday afternoon, the Cubs added five players to their major league roster ... three expected and two, well a little surprising. John Gaub, Welington Castillo and Blake Parker along with Rafael Dolis and James Adduci were protected from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft with both Gaub and Parker expected to be a part of the Cubs pen at some<br> ---- <a href="http://baseball.blogdig.net/archives/articles/November2009/22/Weekend_Update__Castillo__Halladay_and_Other_Cubs_Rumors.html">link</a><br><br><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0b3c1a9881fc49d8963ec7260cb10748&u=1258869900"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0b3c1a9881fc49d8963ec7260cb10748&u=1258869900" border="0"/></a><br><br>Bottom9 Baseball: The best baseball blog posts from around the web<br>The Best baseball blog posts from around the web<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?a=8carIHgcQZk:6xYkcKsypLg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?a=8carIHgcQZk:6xYkcKsypLg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://baseball.blogdig.net/archives/articles/November2009/22/Weekend_Update__Castillo__Halladay_and_Other_Cubs_Rumors.html text/html 2009-11-22T00:58:00-04:00 http://baseball.blogdig.net/ blogdig.net http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bottom9/~3/wJLmp1jG46g/Focus_on_the_important_stuff.html Amid the minor controversy about the latest Cy Young Award voting, there's an important point I made in my last post that really, really bears repeating:Now get back to your typewriters and start writing about my Yankees. It's been a couple of days since you've talked about us.I'm serious! We just won the World Series and the focus should be on us. Don't you know we're trying to trade for Roy Halladay. That Petite filed for free agency. Thank god for some dame named Joan Keri who knows what's<br> ---- <a href="http://baseball.blogdig.net/archives/articles/November2009/22/Focus_on_the_important_stuff.html">link</a><br><br><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0b3c1a9881fc49d8963ec7260cb10748&u=1258869480"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0b3c1a9881fc49d8963ec7260cb10748&u=1258869480" border="0"/></a><br><br>Bottom9 Baseball: The best baseball blog posts from around the web<br><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?a=wJLmp1jG46g:VtIAemGQPQk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?a=wJLmp1jG46g:VtIAemGQPQk:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://baseball.blogdig.net/archives/articles/November2009/22/Focus_on_the_important_stuff.html text/html 2009-11-22T00:37:00-04:00 http://baseball.blogdig.net/ blogdig.net http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bottom9/~3/R6H5GdnHzB8/Quick_Sim_Update.html Have finished writing the code for the World Cup Simulations. Some features in this one:1. 10,000 sims as usual.2. Results of all 640,000 matches in dump file.3. Win percentages for each team in both percentage and fractional odds form.4. Current version alternates between CONMEBOL/CAF and CONMEBOL/AFC/OFC composition of pots. Will change when we know for sure which is which5. Penalties decided by coin flip.6. New match simulator using a binomial function instead of Poisson (this further<br> ---- <a href="http://baseball.blogdig.net/archives/articles/November2009/22/Quick_Sim_Update.html">link</a><br><br><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=0b3c1a9881fc49d8963ec7260cb10748&u=1258868220"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=0b3c1a9881fc49d8963ec7260cb10748&u=1258868220" border="0"/></a><br><br>Bottom9 Baseball: The best baseball blog posts from around the web<br>The Best baseball blog posts from around the web<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?a=R6H5GdnHzB8:mK8MdVyNuXw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?a=R6H5GdnHzB8:mK8MdVyNuXw:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Bottom9?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://baseball.blogdig.net/archives/articles/November2009/22/Quick_Sim_Update.html