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Friday, October 26, 2007

This article by yours truly looks at two interesting things about defense

By , 02:41 AM

This is a two-part article published by The Hardball Times.  In Part 1, I look at the relationship between speed and UZR.  It gives us a lot better numbers to regress small sample UZR’s toward.

Part 2 looks at the, until now, (as far as I know), unanswered question, “Does a small OF allow a team to ‘hide’ a slow (poor) OF’er and can you leverage a fast (good) OF’er in a large OF, and if yes, how large is the effect?”

I really didn’t look into the latter question too deeply, but I have some preliminary answers I think.

(9) Comments • 2007/10/26 • Sabermetrics • Fielding
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