Total Zone, Part 2

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Total Zone
Published 4/28/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
... 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.

Team Totals for SFR 2007 Redux
Published 12/24/2007 by Dan Agonistes at Dan Agonistes
... that shows the similarities between SFR and Bill James' Win Shares method and how using a more granular data set helps us be a little more discerning. And although I've mentioned it a few times, Sean Smith developed his TotalZone metric back in April of 2007 and so I was basically thinking the same thoughts well after Sean had developed his system. I simply didn't find his article when I sat down to construct the system late one Friday night. As is pointed out in the comments to that post systems like these could be used as is when retrosheet data contains both the fielder who ...

Measuring defense for players back to 1956
Published 1/10/2008 by Sean Smith at The Hardball Times
... is updated daily during the baseball season and is reported on several websites. I usually use CNN/Sports Illustrated . The Fan's Scouting Report is run by Tango Tiger; you can read more about it on his site . If you haven't already been doing so, visit the site next year and cast a ballot for your favorite team. The original TotalZone system (now called TotalZone+) was first explained on the Statistically Speaking page of MVN.com. Here's part one and part two . Click here to download the career and single-season ratings for all players from 1956 ...

Schrodinger`s Bat: Simple Fielding Runs Version 1.0 by Dan Fox
Published 1/24/2008 at Baseball Prospectus
... is concerned in the final section of today's column. While the idea of creating a system based on play-by-play records turned out not to be very original , the implementation of ...