Great article on the coming revolution in defensive stats

jar2574 · 07-10-2009, 11:56 AM

We've been discussing defensive skills a lot on this board. Here's a great article about the technological advances that are making defensive stats much more useful.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/sp...ameras.html?hp

Interesting quote:

"Teams have begun scrambling to develop uses for the new data, which will be unveiled Saturday to a group of baseball executives, statisticians and academics, knowing it will probably become the largest single advance in baseball science since the development of the box score. Several major league executives would not publicly acknowledge their enthusiasm for the new system, to better protect their plans for leveraging it."

Foxseven76 · 07-10-2009, 12:23 PM

Wow, very interesting. With all of that raw data the sky is the limit with what people will be able to track. It appears to open the door to a very effective way to track defensive fielding abilities.

RonCo · 07-10-2009, 12:53 PM

Colin Wyers at Hardball times has been playing with the first bits of this kind of data in the recent weeks.

07-10-2009, 11:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
jar2574 Major Leagues Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 391 Thanks: 62 Thanked 24x in 18 posts	Great article on the coming revolution in defensive stats We've been discussing defensive skills a lot on this board. Here's a great article about the technological advances that are making defensive stats much more useful. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/sp...ameras.html?hp Interesting quote: "Teams have begun scrambling to develop uses for the new data, which will be unveiled Saturday to a group of baseball executives, statisticians and academics, knowing it will probably become the largest single advance in baseball science since the development of the box score. Several major league executives would not publicly acknowledge their enthusiasm for the new system, to better protect their plans for leveraging it."

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07-10-2009, 12:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
Foxseven76 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Wow, very interesting. With all of that raw data the sky is the limit with what people will be able to track. It appears to open the door to a very effective way to track defensive fielding abilities.

07-10-2009, 12:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
RonCo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 6,566 Thanks: 21 Thanked 149x in 67 posts	Colin Wyers at Hardball times has been playing with the first bits of this kind of data in the recent weeks.