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Jul
Posted by Josh in Sports, Symposium. Tagged: baseball, fielding, hitting, liberal use of the word "revolutionary", third-basemen, zone rating. Leave a Comment
Let me start my rejoinder by saying that there are three central premises on which John and I are in agreement:
It is tougher to quantify fielding than hitting. I firmly agree with this sentiment: In fact, this is why I believe that this new camera technology is revolutionary. It makes it easier to quantify something [...]
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Jul
Posted by John S in Sports, Symposium. Tagged: baseball, Derek Jeter, Fielding statistics, Mark Teixeira, New York Times, statistical revolution, statistics, technological advancements that are inherently limited in scope. 1 Comment
Josh thinks that, thanks to the sophisticated camera technology reported by The New York Times, there is a statistical revolution coming in baseball, specifically with regard to how we evaluate fielders.
It is true that this technology will lead to better statistics than the current options of fielding-percentage and zone rating, but I think he overestimates the [...]
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Jul
Posted by Josh in Sports, Symposium, Uncategorized. Tagged: Billy Beane, fielding percentage, implicit attacks on a certain overrated fielder, Michael Lewis, moneyball, on base percentage, revolutionary technological changes, sabermetrics, zone rating. 3 Comments
In Moneyball, Michael Lewis chronicles Oakland A’s general manger Billy Beane’s use of unconventional statistics (sabermetrics, using baseball-speak) to field a competitive team despite Oakland’s small budget. The A’s found that statistics like on-base percentage (OBP) and slugging percentage were undervalued on the open-market, allowing Beane to sign and trade for better players at a [...]
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