November 23, 2009
Order Now The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 is now in development and will ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Tom Tango and Craig Wright. If you use this link to purchase the Annual, you will be in the first group to receive it and you'll be supporting THT. Most Recent Comments
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Sunday, January 23, 2005David Pinto’s Defensive AnalysisPosted by Dave StudemanLast year, David Pinto published a "probabilistic model of range" -- one of the most sophisticated zone-based analyses of fielding around. Similar to MGL's Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR), it calculates how well each fielder got to balls hit in specific zones, compared to the major league average for each zone. MGL isn't publishing his UZR rankings this year, so it's great that David is publishing his analysis again. Hopefully, this is the first of several tables David will produce. According to David's analysis, the best fielding teams this year were the Cardinals, Red Sox, Cubs and White Sox. You've probably already noticed that the first two teams also happened to make it to the World Series. Head on over to David's blog for more great insight. Dave was called a "national treasure" by Rob Neyer. Seriously. Comments about this article can be sent to him through the miracle of e-mail. CommentsLeave a comment:Commenting is not available in this weblog entry. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||