friarforecast.com - 7/28/2008
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I had a bunch of links for this weekend, but just not much time to post them. Anyway, here are a few …
Tangotiger linked to an old article on fielding analysis . I’ve only skimmed it so far, but if you’re interested in how fielding is (or could/should be) measured today , I’d recommend checking it out. The Book Blog thread (linked above; the first one) also has quite ...
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No Maas: Interview with Pitchf/x guru and Hardball Times author, Josh Kalk
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
... the ball back to the pitcher and that has happened much less in 2008. Second, in 2007 there are many games where PITCHf/x tracked an inning or two and then nothing for the rest of the game. In 2008, outages like that are much less frequent and when they do occur they last for a much shorter period of time. The data doesn’t appear to be more precise however (though that really isn’t a problem with the 2007 data) and the park to park accuracy is only minimally improved. Thanks to Friar Forecast .
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