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Friday, February 29, 2008
Observational Analysis
Greg is right on. Good article, and is an excellent intro to his fantastic piece in the THT08 Annual. Along with Walsh’s article, these two articles are worth the price of the book by themselves.
I’ve long said that the pinnacle of sabermetrics will be the convergence of Performance Analysis and Scouting Observations. PITCHf/x and HITf/x are FIELDf/x will be front and center at this revolution. Thank you Sportvision: you will enter the Sabermetrics Hall of Fame.
Question to MGL: can you tell us how STATS codes these two plays that Greg references? And, if Appleman is around, how did BIS code those two plays?
I will disagree with Greg about only knowing the speed off ball (SOB) as not being good enough. If STATS and BIS correctly labelled the location of these plays, and if you have the SOB, and the angle off the bat, that would go a long way to tell you how fast the ball got there. It would be more helpful if you knew how many hops as well.