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Monday, January 04, 2010
The New BPro
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We’ve added some of the best minds out there to meet these goals. You’ve already seen their work in the past month here at BP, and their names should already be familiar to many of you. Russell Carleton (known to many on the web as “PizzaCutter") and Colin Wyers are two of the best statistical minds contributing content on the internet, and now their work will be exclusive to Baseball Prospectus. Beyond the featured analysis they will provide on a content level, both are working behind the scenes to enhance our statistical offering, including the development of new metrics, which we will share with the public as they become perfected, with an explanation of why they should become the new standard.... That is going to change, and Eric will be spending a lot of time talking about our numbers, as well as many of the new metrics currently in development, and explaining the nuts and bolts around them, and why they are the best out there at accurately measuring team and player performance....
1. SIERA (Skill Interactive ERA): A run estimator that corrects QERA’s flaws and dethrones it as the most accurate of its kind. There’s a long explanation of SIERA in the upcoming Baseball Prospectus 2010, and look for it here soon.2. New, “from the ground up” defensive measurements, including a separate project that will result in a state-of-the-art metric for measuring the value of catcher defense.
3. A revamped and much improved MORP.
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First, the new faces. Another name that has already been on the site a few times, Tommy Bennett, is becoming a BP-exclusive contributor. We’ve had our eyes on Tommy for quite awhile, as his work at Beyond the Box Score combined excellent analysis with highly entertaining writing, and we’re confident you’ll come to enjoy his work as much as we have.In addition to Tommy, Jeff Euston is coming aboard. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, I could instead refer to Cot’s Contracts.
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which will allow PECOTA to continue its growth as the most detailed projection system available.
I love PizzaCutter as much as a virtual saberist can love another virtual saberist.. Colin is great and I knew that Jeff was a perfect match for someone (BPro, B-R, or Fangraphs), and Idol or no Idol, it was a given that both these guys would make it to BPro if that’s what either wanted. Tommy is great and is a cross of Neyer and Phil. Eric has been excellent wherever he was. This is about as good as a Tango-approved team that BPro could have brought on board.
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