TotalZone, a new defensive measure

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THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball found this 4/24/2007 on mvn.com [flag]
This weekend, I did something I’ve wanted to do for a while now.  I dusted off my copy of Baseball Hacks, learned some basic Perl programming, downloaded Retrosheet’s bevent  program, emailed or a little help (thanks Joe) and built myself a play by play database. Its a wonderful thing.  I started playing around with it, and thought I’d see how far I can get constructing ... [link]

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TotalZone, a new fielding measure
Published 4/24/2007 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... http://mvn.com/mlb-stats/2007/04/23/totalzone-a-new-defensive-measure/

links for 2007-04-26
Published 4/26/2007 by billfer at The Detroit Tiger Weblog
... Statistically Speaking | MVN - Most Valuable Network » Blog Archive » TotalZone, a new defensive measure

Simple Fielding Runs
Published 12/6/2007 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... comes up with his Retrosheet fielding system.  Last year, Chone also came up with his Retrosheet fielding system.  Hopefully, jinaz will come up with a comprehensive comparison of UZR, PMR, RZR, Fans, Fox, and Chone. ...

Dave Stieb and an historical Reds baseball proposal
Published 1/3/2008 by Justin at On Baseball and the Reds
... For defense, I'll use the best data I can find. For more recent teams, that'll probably be either ZR or (best case) UZR. For teams prior to 1980, I'll probably have to use BPro's RAA....though I might look into doing something like Sean Smith's TotalZone or Dan Fox's ...

Measuring defense for players back to 1956
Published 1/10/2008 by Sean Smith at The Hardball Times
... . 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 ...

Friday links
Published 6/27/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
Pizza Cutter has developed a new fielding metric using retrosheet data (part 1, part 2), similar to Dan Fox’s and Sean Smith’s. Good discussion at The Book Blog. If you’re interested in “run estimation stuff,” check out Patriot’s last few posts. Sticking with the theme, there’s some additional discussion of the topic here.  Geoff Young compares Adrian Gonzalez and Justin Morneau … and Jeff from Lookout Landing thinks Gonzalez is one of the most underrated ...