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With qualifying starting up again this weekend, Voros McCracken projects the field for Euro 2012. Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are virtual locks. After that, it gets interesting.

Story | Conversation | August 31, 2011

Voros McCracken takes a crack at breaking down the odds of relegation and shows that making the Premiership isn't the hardest thing for a club. It's staying there.

Story | Conversation | August 04, 2011

Voros McCracken breaks down the last 15 seasons of Premiership statistics and discovers that if you want to play in the Champions League, then it's vital to finish in the top four the year before.

Story | Conversation | August 03, 2011

Peter Keating dissects batting average on balls in play, which is one of baseball's most misunderstood statistics.

Story | Conversation | May 24, 2011

Voros McCracken looks at the recent history of the U.S. under-20 program and finds some similarities to how Argentina develops players.

Blog | Conversation | April 17, 2011

Ben Jedlovec provides an in-depth look at BABIP numbers, writing that while defense and luck play significant roles, extreme ground ball and fly ball pitchers from last year won't necessarily regress to the league average this season.

Story | Conversation | April 16, 2011

Voros McCracken examines the growing parity in the English Premier League and wonders if we're destined to see a wider array of champions in the future.

Story | Conversation | April 05, 2011

Tristan H. Cockcroft tries to explain the BABIP (batting average on balls in play) stat, and how fantasy owners can use it to analyze player performance.

Below, a long excerpt from a much longer article about Voros McCracken, who merely changed baseball analysis as we knew it, practically overnight. Jeff Passan: When a Baseball Prospectus book suggested pitching and defense were too intertwined to b...

Tristan H. Cockcroft tries to explain the BABIP (batting average on balls in play) stat, and how fantasy owners can use it to analyze player performance.

There is new evidence that teams, not individuals, historically have the most success on batting average on balls in play.