Kyle Bland
@blandalytics.pitcherlist.com
Trying to make analytics a little less boring. All takes backed by a colorful chart
Dir. of Data Analytics & Research @ https://pitcherlist.com/. He/Him
Dir. of Data Analytics & Research @ https://pitcherlist.com/. He/Him
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I put together a Starter Pack for Pitcher List Staff (& Friends!). Give them a follow if you want cool baseball content and 80-grade vibes!
go.bsky.app/TesPXS6
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This is going to be an awesome event in March. It rocks that I get to be a part of it with @thomasdrance.bsky.social. We're already cooking up some fun shows for that week with special guests.
("popular" and "sophisticated" are their words, not ours. But i'll take it!)
www.nhl.com/avalanche/ne...
("popular" and "sophisticated" are their words, not ours. But i'll take it!)
www.nhl.com/avalanche/ne...
Introducing the Hockey Analytics League Operations (HALO) Meetings & Conference 2026 | Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche are proud to be hosting the sport’s biggest hockey analytics conference of the season this March. The event is expected to host representatives from at least 25 of the NHL’s 32 ...
www.nhl.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
This is going to be an awesome event in March. It rocks that I get to be a part of it with @thomasdrance.bsky.social. We're already cooking up some fun shows for that week with special guests.
("popular" and "sophisticated" are their words, not ours. But i'll take it!)
www.nhl.com/avalanche/ne...
("popular" and "sophisticated" are their words, not ours. But i'll take it!)
www.nhl.com/avalanche/ne...
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Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
Pham struggled with contact lenses in 2025, and this report from late June says he felt like he was "heading in a right direction" after trying multiple different lenses. Timing lines up almost perfectly with his Contact/Power gains.
sportsnetpittsburgh.com/2025/06/25/p...
sportsnetpittsburgh.com/2025/06/25/p...
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Pham struggled with contact lenses in 2025, and this report from late June says he felt like he was "heading in a right direction" after trying multiple different lenses. Timing lines up almost perfectly with his Contact/Power gains.
sportsnetpittsburgh.com/2025/06/25/p...
sportsnetpittsburgh.com/2025/06/25/p...
Tommy Pham got better as the season went on, adding positive Contact and Power contributions to his consistently plus Swing Decisions.
He faced a brutal slate of challenging pitches at the start of the year, then gradually crept up to a more league-average quality of competition.
He faced a brutal slate of challenging pitches at the start of the year, then gradually crept up to a more league-average quality of competition.
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Tommy Pham got better as the season went on, adding positive Contact and Power contributions to his consistently plus Swing Decisions.
He faced a brutal slate of challenging pitches at the start of the year, then gradually crept up to a more league-average quality of competition.
He faced a brutal slate of challenging pitches at the start of the year, then gradually crept up to a more league-average quality of competition.
Adjusting hitting stats for the quality of pitcher/pitches faced? Someone should show Pham Process+
pitcherlist.com/what-is-proc...
pitcherlist.com/what-is-proc...
January 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Adjusting hitting stats for the quality of pitcher/pitches faced? Someone should show Pham Process+
pitcherlist.com/what-is-proc...
pitcherlist.com/what-is-proc...
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I’ve been doing a pod for my stream regulars for awhile now. A few of them want me to promote it more so I’ve decided to do a monthly publicly visible version (all other episodes get uploaded quietly to yt)
I talk about my job, data science, baseball stuff, management stuff
youtu.be/QUSi8KBY-U4
I talk about my job, data science, baseball stuff, management stuff
youtu.be/QUSi8KBY-U4
Yap Wan Monthly Public Pod 2026-01-03 leadership qualities, theory vs practice in decision making
YouTube video by Nick Wan
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I’ve been doing a pod for my stream regulars for awhile now. A few of them want me to promote it more so I’ve decided to do a monthly publicly visible version (all other episodes get uploaded quietly to yt)
I talk about my job, data science, baseball stuff, management stuff
youtu.be/QUSi8KBY-U4
I talk about my job, data science, baseball stuff, management stuff
youtu.be/QUSi8KBY-U4
I don’t understand how the Avs are *so* dominant at even strength and **so** impotent on the power play.
January 4, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I don’t understand how the Avs are *so* dominant at even strength and **so** impotent on the power play.
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I'm excited to announce that, at long last, my first article for Pitcher List will hit them there interwebs tomorrow! Watch this page for the link!
January 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I'm excited to announce that, at long last, my first article for Pitcher List will hit them there interwebs tomorrow! Watch this page for the link!
Hello and welcome new followers! Here are the awesome staff of @pitcherlist.com! Give them a follow for the upcoming season 👍
I put together a Starter Pack for Pitcher List Staff (& Friends!). Give them a follow if you want cool baseball content and 80-grade vibes!
go.bsky.app/TesPXS6
go.bsky.app/TesPXS6
January 2, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Hello and welcome new followers! Here are the awesome staff of @pitcherlist.com! Give them a follow for the upcoming season 👍
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Extremely cool new app created by Kyle Bland of @pitcherlist.com that uses the Tracker for its source data: bbhof-ballot-metrics.streamlit.app
Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot Analysis
This app was built in Streamlit! Check it out and visit https://streamlit.io for more awesome community apps. 🎈
bbhof-ballot-metrics.streamlit.app
January 2, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Extremely cool new app created by Kyle Bland of @pitcherlist.com that uses the Tracker for its source data: bbhof-ballot-metrics.streamlit.app
Hall of Fame voter metrics!
"Stinginess" measures player slots not used. 1 is median, higher means voted for fewer players, and 0 means they used all 10.
"Orthodoxy" is how common their votes were that year, given the number of players you voted for. 100 score means you had the most common players.
"Stinginess" measures player slots not used. 1 is median, higher means voted for fewer players, and 0 means they used all 10.
"Orthodoxy" is how common their votes were that year, given the number of players you voted for. 100 score means you had the most common players.
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Hall of Fame voter metrics!
"Stinginess" measures player slots not used. 1 is median, higher means voted for fewer players, and 0 means they used all 10.
"Orthodoxy" is how common their votes were that year, given the number of players you voted for. 100 score means you had the most common players.
"Stinginess" measures player slots not used. 1 is median, higher means voted for fewer players, and 0 means they used all 10.
"Orthodoxy" is how common their votes were that year, given the number of players you voted for. 100 score means you had the most common players.
Re-running this for 2025 and... Yikes, Rockies! The Giants were the most stressful, alternating leading and trailing in the last few innings
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Re-running this for 2025 and... Yikes, Rockies! The Giants were the most stressful, alternating leading and trailing in the last few innings
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Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other
country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million
more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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This is your annual reminder that “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) has the same meter as — and therefore can be recited to the tune of — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
December 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is your annual reminder that “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) has the same meter as — and therefore can be recited to the tune of — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
Got to play on pro ice tonight. All of our fans were there, just out of frame
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Got to play on pro ice tonight. All of our fans were there, just out of frame
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New post: what predicts future future goal differential the best? What about offense? Defense? Revisiting an old research idea with data from the chip era
open.substack.com/pub/puckover...
open.substack.com/pub/puckover...
Which Is Better at Predicting Future Goals: Corsi, Expected Goals, or Scoring Chances?
Revisiting an old topic with new data
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
New post: what predicts future future goal differential the best? What about offense? Defense? Revisiting an old research idea with data from the chip era
open.substack.com/pub/puckover...
open.substack.com/pub/puckover...
For a fraction of the price of training an LLM, I can also struggle with the word "the"
Going with the trend of the day, i also asked an AI if it could tell me the last 40 Stanley Cup winners and ... what are we even doing here, man
December 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
For a fraction of the price of training an LLM, I can also struggle with the word "the"
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"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy.
"And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.
"And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.
December 18, 2023 at 10:16 AM
"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy.
"And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.
"And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.
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Relievers (!!) and Catchers are getting pricey. Looks like some of the fear about the shallowness of 2B is dissipating.
December 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Relievers (!!) and Catchers are getting pricey. Looks like some of the fear about the shallowness of 2B is dissipating.