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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Scoring practices not a source for drops in recorded errors?
I would have figured it was the main culprit over the past few decades. Bill James thinks otherwise:
Errors per game have dropped somewhat consistently over baseball history, from 3 per game 120 years ago to around 0.65 errors per game this previous decade. It’s been a pretty steady decline. How much of this would you say is an improvement in fielding, and how much is due to scorers simply charging fielders with errors less often? It just seems to me that in today’s baseball, everything that could possibly be scored a hit is scored a hit.
Asked by: Patrick F.
Answered: July 21, 2010None whatsoever is attributable to changes in scoring practices. If anything, the expectations of scorers have increased over the years. People have said what you just said as long as I’ve been around baseball. It was nonsense 50 years ago, and it’s nonsense now.
Easy enough to figure out I suppose, by following a similar process as here:
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/fielding-aging-curves/
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