“With or without you” (a/k/a WOWY) has been a staple of sports analysis for some time. In some sports, it is the backbone of so-called “plus/minus”; in baseball, Tom Tango popularized the idea as WOWY ...

Pavel Datsyuk (13) makes his teammates better, and WOWY (with or without you) charts show the improvement his teammates see when they play with him. (Mike Mulholland/MLive.com) Line combinations and ...

Last year, Baseball Prospectus introduced our Regressed Probabilistic Model (or “RPM”) for catcher pitch-framing. RPM uses PITCHf/x data to increase the measured accuracy of the actual contributions ...

Although basketball now attracts more nerds than Comic Con, basketball statistics are still all over the place. Maybe years of SportVU player-tracking data will someday bring clarity to the field, but ...

A clock face themed necklace by Polly Hitt of Tyler is seen inside at her workshop at Ye Olde City Antique Mall in downtown Tyler. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph) What can you do with a pile ...