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Monday, February 28, 2011
How to do fielding in fantasy?
A reader asked:
This year ESPN has 6 fielding scoring possibilities.
Dp, Errors, Outfield Assists, Assists, Put Outs, Total Chances.
Bearing in mind I’m not a statistician or a maths geek, I took a rough guesstimate of the median figures for all those categories at each position for regular players, set up a series of aimultaneous equations where each one equalled it’s position run value, then tested out the results. The combined figures were tweakable for total MLB value in terms of fielding WAR, but absolutely awful for individuls, loads of noise.
Was that an OK way to go about it?
If as I suspect there just isn’t enough info in just those six stats then what would be the minimum no and which ones, to make it even half reasonable.
I ask because I want to e-mail the powers that be at ESPN with some suggestions, since they are already down the fielding route and seem more open to saber ideas.
Any feedback gratefully received, especially since I’m determined to finally get a saber league set up the way I’d really like it, and the 100 points per WAR would be a key component amongst other things.
Thanks
I’ve never had to think about this. The central idea would be to use assists for infielders and putouts or putouts+assists for outfielders. You’d also want to know the number of balls in play, or innings played.