THE BOOK cover
The Unwritten Book is Finally Written!
An in-depth analysis of: The sacrifice bunt, batter/pitcher matchups, the intentional base on balls, optimizing a batting lineup, hot and cold streaks, clutch performance, platooning strategies, and much more.
Read Excerpts & Customer Reviews

Buy The Book from Amazon


SABR101 required reading if you enter this site. Check out the Sabermetric Wiki. And interesting baseball books.
MOST RECENT ARTICLES
MAIL : You ask | We say

Advanced


THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Filter posts by...

 

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Optimal shift length

By Tangotiger, 01:28 PM

I REALLY need to see this with the same players in all the pools in the same amount.

Plus, it would seem to me that a guy’s long-shift might end when a goal is scored.  All to say that if you select for length of shift first, you are going to have a bias in your sample.  What you should do is look at the shot% in the NEXT 1 seconds.  So, of players who played for 40 seconds, what happens in the 41st second?  You still have some kind of survivor bias, but it’s going to be fairly muted.

(3) Comments • 2010/02/12 • Other SportsHockey
Page 1 of 1 pages

Latest...

COMMENTS

May 26 03:03
Pete Palmer’s new book: Basic Ball

May 26 01:11
Largest demonstration in Canadian history?

May 25 23:40
“Why Kickstarter works”

May 25 19:41
What sabermetrics is NOT

May 25 16:59
Howard Stern

May 25 15:12
Do pitcher’s reach back for velocity when needed?

May 25 12:51
Chad Curtis

May 25 11:26
Lack of hustle during a game

May 25 10:58
Rooting for laundry

May 25 02:38
NFLPA lawsuit against collusion

THREADS

February 11, 2010
Optimal shift length