A Strong Signal in the Number of Home Runs — and a Surprising Special Cause
It's been a busy few weeks for me with work travel and, blogwise, I'm winding down into a few weeks of "blog…
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A PDSA Cycle in the Early Days of Baseball Uniforms
As somebody who grew up as a big baseball fan, I somehow managed to not see the Ken Burns documentary, Baseball.
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Is “Kaizen” a Slogan or a Methodology for the Seattle Mariners?
Here is an interesting article that a few people pointed me toward the other day about the Seattle Mariners team:
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Metrics Require More Than 2-Pointers or 3-Pointers: NCAA Men’s Hoops Final…
Two data points are not a trend. But, one data point can be a "signal" that a metric has changed enough to merit…
Lessons from Brett Favre on Permission and Innovation
It's a big week for American football. Monday was the College Football Playoff championship game. Alabama, led by…
Don’t Overexplain College Football Playoff TV Ratings Being at “An…
We have to be careful with text descriptions of business metrics -- this is true when it's numbers in the news or…
Using Process Behavior Charts to Compare Red Bead Game “Willing…
This post is Part Three of a series on using Process Behavior Charts for snapshot comparisons (of individuals,…
Is Andre Drummond Sustaining His Free Throw Improvements? Has Dwight Howard…
Last year, I looked at the free throw statistics of Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons. News headlines talked…
Shohei Ohtani, Norm Bodek, and The Harada Method Featured in the WSJ
You might remember my blog post from May about the Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese player for the Los Angeles Angels of…
Home Runs as Tables of Numbers, Run Charts, and Process Behavior Charts
If you're not a baseball fan, I apologize for a second baseball-themed post this week. Baseball has a lot of…
Taking Don Wheeler’s Class; MLB Batting Averages are Lower… So What?
I recently saw this headline:
Baseball on pace for lowest batting average since 1972
Just because it's the…
Is the Reported Drop in Major League Baseball Attendance a “Signal” or…
Here is my latest article that I published on LinkedIn:
Is the Reported Drop in Major League Baseball Attendance…
Major League Baseball Works on Standardizing the Ball… For What Purpose?
Back in 2014, I wrote an article for The Lean Post:
"Standardization is a Countermeasure, Never the Goal"
I'm a…
The Making of an MLB Phenom, Shohei Ohtani: Looking at The Harada Method
I first learned about an approach to personal development called "The Harada Method" when Norman Bodek co-authored…
2018 Lean Healthcare Draft – Mock Draft Projections and Exclusive Fake…
Tonight is the start of the NFL Draft, which almost gets as much coverage nowadays as a Presidential election.…
How to Go From Analytical Wonk to “Process Improvement” Coach In…
As you might know, I have always enjoyed baseball and like blogging about ideas and statistics that come from the…
Are Minor League Baseball Games Getting Slower or Faster? What do "process…
Are minor league games taking longer? Well, yes and no, depending on the league.
My next book, Measures of…
Every Metric Has Variation – What Can We Learn from NCAA Football…
Last week, I saw a headline about a drop in NCAA college football attendance.
I wasn't satisfied with the two…