Happy Valley Hardball with a sabermetrics twist

Penn State inched up another spot to eighth in the conference despite giving up a ton of runs, forty nine to be exact, to Illinois in the four game set this weekend. It helped that the Nits also scored forty two on the Illini hurlers. Still the Nits projection is significantly behind their actual winning [...]

Michigan had been slowly building a case for themselves as worthy of an at-large bid should they falter in the Big Ten Tournament. Their split with Indiana this weekend didn’t do their case any good as they slipped 5 spots to 44. At 44, they would definitely be a bubble team not an at-large lock. [...]

Fitting farewell | Altoona Mirror via kwout UncleLar Take: I think I owe John Wilson an apology. It’s not that I publicly questioned his start for the Penn State Altoona ball club on senior day (I did link to a bunch of articles here on the blog) but privately I thought it was a nice [...]

Lions win two on road – The Daily Collegian Online via kwout UncleLar Take: Joe Blackburn’s comment ““I definitely don’t wanna say their pitching was weak but we’ve definitely seen better in the Big Ten” brought a smile to my face. If Blackburn had questions about the Illini staff, who gave up 43 runs to [...]