Fielding
Articles on the many fielding systems out there.
James Click
-Evaluating Defense (2004) - An overview of how BP does their fielding stats
Clay Davenport
-Shortstop’s and DFT’s (1998) - A more detailed look at Davenport’s methodology
Chris Dial
-Dr StrangeGlove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zone Rating (2005)
-What is Zone Rating? (2005)
Mike Emeigh
-Derek Jeter and the State of Fielding Analysis in Sabermetrics (2003) - Emeigh’s 8 part series on fielding (parts 2 and 4 missing as of now)
-Derek Jeter and the State of Fielding Analysis in Sabermetrics - Part 3
-Derek Jeter and the State of Fielding Analysis in Sabermetrics - Part 5
-Derek Jeter and the State of Fielding Analysis in Sabermetrics - Part 6
-Derek Jeter and the State of Fielding Analysis in Sabermetrics - Part 7
-Derek Jeter and the State of Fielding Analysis in Sabermetrics - Part 8
-Total Baseball’s Fielding Runs - A Primer (2001)
Dan Fox
-Simple Fielding Runs Version 1.0* (2008) - A retrosheet based fielding metric
Michael Humphreys
-Defensive Regression Analysis, Part 1 (2003)
-Defensive Regression Analysis, Part 2 (2003)
-Defensive Regression Analysis, Part 3 (2003)
-Defensive Regression Analysis: Complete Series (2005)
Justin Inaz
-How should we calculate Zone Rating? (2007)
-How should we calculate Zone Rating? (Part II) (2007)
Shane Jensen
-SAFE (2007) - A new fielding measure
Dan Levitt
-Fielding opportunities by position based on pitcher hand (2000)
Mitchel Lichtman
-Ultimate Zone Rating, Part 1 (2003) - Explaining UZR
-Ultimate Zone Rating, Part 2 (2003) - Adjusting for parks, handedness, speed of batted ball, etc.
Sherri Nichols
-Defensive average
Charlie Pavitt
-A long-winded rant concerning the evaluation of fielding (2007)
David Pinto
-A probabilistic Model of Range (2003)
-More on Probability and Range (2003)
Sean Smith
-Measuring defense for players back to 1956 (2008) - Using Retrosheet’s files, Sean Smith has created a new fielding metric
Tom Tango
-The fielding system approach I’ve been preaching (2007) - Tango and company on SAFE and fielding evaluation
-Evaluating Catchers - A new look at catcher defense
-Fans’ Scouting Report - The fans take on fielding
Tom Tippett
-Evaluating Defense (1999) - Overview and Diamond Mind’s approach
David Vaillette
-Adjusted Range Factor (2002)
John Walsh
-Infield Defense - Back to Basics (2007) - Where do grounders go … and who field them?
Keith Woolner
-Field General or Backstop (2000) - From the 1999 Baseball Prospectus
-Catching Up With The General: A Postscript (2000) - A followup to the above article
-Simulating Catcher’s ERA (2002)
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