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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Total Zone

I have created a new defensive measure using retrosheet event files.  I look at how many plays a fielder makes in comparisons to how many hits land in his general direction, then control for park, batter hand, and a few other things.

For recent years (2003-2006) retrosheet does not have detailed hit location, so I’m treating each outfield and infield spot as one big zone.

AROM Posted: April 28, 2007 at 04:49 PM | 3 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Designated Sitter (GGC) Posted: April 29, 2007 at 02:00 AM (#2348843)
One of these days, I'm going to hire some programmers (as opposed to deprogrammers) and have them teach me how to do stuff like this. It looks like more regulars have plus ratings rather than minus ratings. I figured that it might be the opposite.
   2. Der Komminsk-sar Posted: February 15, 2009 at 08:36 PM (#3077615)
I haven't seen a recent post for this but really should have - it would have likely garnered a fair amount of attention on a week short of actual baseball news, but...
Sean Smith and Jeff Sackmann now have this data for the minor league level up on minorleaguesplits.com. Here's Sean's recent summary bit on it from the Hardball Times.
(Very, very) Initially, I'm not super keen on these results - they don't look as stable (y-t-y) or as consistent w/ the scouty consensus as I'd like, but Sean's covers this stuff pretty well in his aforementioned piece.
   3. Chris Dial Posted: February 15, 2009 at 08:58 PM (#3077626)
Well, there are lots of questions. The OF, for instance ought to be closer (I'd think). And where did he get the run values?

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