Comments on: 2007 Review: Top Second Basemen

By: SAsSDGAFDYFD

SAsSDGAFDYFD — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:25:04 +0000

where’s alex cora on worst?

By: HeavyGod

HeavyGod — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:58:38 +0000

Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!

By: Sky

Sky — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:27:29 +0000

After talking with JinAZ, we figured out the difference is likely due to Phillips’ 26 (yes, 26) GIDPs. At about -.32 runs each, that’s 8.3 total runs penalized against the Reds’ second baseman.

And fyi, I used the most complicated BaseRuns formula on Patriot’s site, which does not include ROE (not that I have a data source with ROE, anyway) and does include Ks, SHs, SFs, SB/CS, and all the basics.

By: JinAZ

JinAZ — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:13:25 +0000

That’s interesting–I have Phillips at 33 RAR on offense and 9 RAA on defense (FSR pulls him up a little bit). I may pull up my spreadsheet tonight to compare numbers here.. I’m not using custom team linear weights (instead I’m just using custom league linear weights), but otherwise our methods are more or less the same (I think).

Are you using Tango’s base runs coefficients to produce the linear weights? I find that those tend to underestimate run production a little bit when I plug them into THT stats, probably because we don’t have access to things like RBOE’s. I’m using slightly larger coefficients that I’ve forced to match ‘04-’07 NL production. Maybe that’s where the difference lies.
-j