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Posts Tagged ‘UZR’

Friday Graph: Defense And Pitching

Aug 14th, 2009
by Chris Quick.
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Run prevention is a hugely important team skill in baseball. Baseball highlights will often be composed of those who can hit the longest home runs, but having a top defensive team can do wonders for a team’s record. For example, take the Giants. Collectively as a team the Giants can’t hit their way out of [...]

Best and Worst Giants’ Defenders 2002-2008

Dec 17th, 2008
by Chris Quick.
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A quick post this morning on the defense from 2002-2008. Thanks to FanGraphs for making bUZR publicly available. I’ve really had a lot of fun looking through the data.
I decided to use bUZR from the years 2002-2008 to find the best and worst defender on each Giants team in each year. My criteria was fielders [...]

Ultimate Zone Rating

Dec 8th, 2008
by Chris Quick.
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Exciting news this weekend, FanGraphs is now providing UZR data — Ultimate Zone Rating — on it’s website. UZR for those who don’t know, is one of the more heralded defensive systems out there. Consider UZR another handy tool to stick in your tool belt when it comes to player analysis. UZR splits the field [...]