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HBT: New Defensive Metric - Big Zone Rating(BZR)
Topic Started: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:35 pm (16 Views)
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So, I have been on a Hardball Times binge the past couple days and I found these articles pretty interesting. Basically Peter Jensen, one of their writers, took hit locations from MLB Gameday and created a fielding metric from them. There are all kinds of potential problems with the accuracy that he points out - and tries to adjust for - but nevertheless, it's pretty interesting to look at.

There are two articles out so far with a third one coming next week. The first article is just info about the data he collected, the second article goes into how he actually created the metric, and the article coming out next week is apparently going to have a listing of the top players at each position (using BZR) last year. Just thought I'd share:

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/using-gameday-to-build-a-fielding-metric-part-1/

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/using-gameday-to-build-a-fielding-metric-part-2/

Enjoy.
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Very interesting. Thx for the read.
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I'll bookmark this for tomorrow. I've literally had no time to read all of my usual suspects between school and soccer.
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