Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics to the basics of sabermetric analysis explains concepts, including normalization, peak versus career performance, linear weights and runs created, as well as popular calculations like OPS (On-base plus Slugging), WHIP (...
Athletes are always looking for an edge – how to get better, how to raise their level of play – and are looking for different tools and resources to help them to accomplish this goal. In recent years, baseball has been going through a boom of data-driven player development, w...
Karma Zone utilizes images captured by two high-speed cameras positioned over the first base side and behind the home plate to calculate the coordinates in space. The results are displayed on the broadcast screen as a grid pattern of the strike zone as shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7. It ...
Little League baseball seasons aren’t long, but you can’t be expected to remember every detail of each player’s performance. Keeping statistics on all your players lets you see at a glance how your hitters, fielders and pitchers are performing. If you're used to keeping baseball stats a...
Michael Lewis, inMoneyball, described how the baseball analyst Bill James was frustrated by the fact that major league hitters were consistently rated by their batting averages. James wrote: “a hitter should be measured by his success in that which he is trying to do, … create runs. It ...
Salariesovertheyears.Inthispaper,four“FormerGreat”players’personalstatisticsandsalarieswerecomparedto“ModernEra”playersthatachievedsimilarrecords,inanattempttocalculateapproximatelyhowmucheachformerplayerwouldearniftheyplayedtoday.Personalstatisticsusedtocomparepositionplayerswere,players’battingaverages(Avg.),...
Karma Zone utilizes images captured by two high-speed cameras positioned over the first base side and behind the home plate to calculate the coordinates in space. The results are displayed on the broadcast screen as a grid pattern of the strike zone as shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7. It ...