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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Scouting Play-by-play logs

By Tangotiger, 02:35 PM

We tracked a good portion of the balls in play yesterday, using nothing more than our eyes and baseball sense.  Below you will find the complete log of our observations.  Note that this was our first try, and obviously, we’d need some guidelines.  For example, if you have a play that will be made 40% of the time by 20% of the fielders, and 20% of the time by 30% of the fielders, 10% of the time by 40% of the fielders, and 0% of the time by 10% of the fielders, it’s not really apparent what the average is (18%). 

Anyway, for posterity’s sake, and future research purposes:

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