THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

For you Pedroia lovers (and haters): don’t worry, I will clean up the data at some point.

Out of curiosity, how do you clean it up?

Best I don’t reveal too much so that people don’t figure out how to counteract me.

Data has been cleanedup.  Pedroia has taken over from Jeter as most hated player.

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It’s been almost two days since we started this, and we’re already at 30% of the totals from last year.

Special thanks to these sites for promoting (according to my referrals):

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/fans-scouting-report-2010/
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=11845
http://brewersfandemonium.yuku.com/topic/23236/t/2010-Fans-Scouting-Report.html
http://www.royalsreview.com/2010/8/24/1648906/fan-scouting-report-voting
http://www.anothercubsblog.net/2010-articles/august/fans-scouting-report.html
http://www.motownsports.com/forums/detroit-tigers/84847-2010-fan-scouting-report.html
http://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20100824114207996
http://www.purplerow.com/2010/8/24/1648482/2010-fan-scouting-report
http://dockoftherays.com/2010/08/24/the-2010-scouting-report-project/
http://www.twitter.com (via ReTweets)
http://triplesalley.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/fans-scouting-report-2010/
http://motorcitybengals.com/2010/08/24/you-too-can-scout-the-tigers/
http://www.lonestarball.com/2010/8/25/1650859/2010-fan-scouting-reports
http://www.thegoodphight.com/2010/8/24/1648978/tango-tigers-scouting-form
http://camdencrazies.com/2010/08/24/2010-fans-scouting-report/

If you’re site is not on the list, it may simply have not hit my referral list yet.

Thanks…

Thanks to these sites as well:
http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/5007/friday-filberts-64
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/blog_article/get-the-vote-out/
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/the_book_blog_the_2010_scouting_report/
http://ducksnorts.com/blog/2010/08/friday-links-27-aug-10.html
http://www.aarongleeman.com
http://parl.wordpress.com
http://disciplesofuecker.com/fans-scouting-report/
http://sonsofsamhorn.net/topic/59673-2010-fans-scouting-report/
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/8/26/1651960/2010-fans-scouting-report
http://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20100826142826150
http://www.prosportsdaily.com/forums/showthread.php?t=526648
http://www.blessyouboys.com/2010/8/26/1651938/watch-a-lot-of-baseball-got-an
http://fromthedugout.ocregister.com/2010/08/26/rate-the-angels-fielders/63821/

Believe me, I may get the credit, but what I’m doing is nothing without everyone else being involved.

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I’m at 42% of last year’s total.  I haven’t checked if that’s the normal pace or not.

Tango, what if anything do you do to adjust for the bias that is likely to be found in this survey as a result of the vast majority of the repliers being both knowledgeable of and believers in defensive metrics?  Isn’t it likely that the results of this survey are not actually scouting input but rather just a reflection of these defensive metrics?