tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23241716.post406379091307168737..comments2007-10-25T19:57:33.150-04:00Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697776280178146413justin@basement-dwellers.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23241716.post-19524406515421209182007-09-27T17:40:16.440-04:002007-09-27T17:40:16.440-04:00That's a really neat idea. Might be hard to answer every question, but it would be interesting to do as you say and just quantify how teams vary in BIZ to different positions. It'd be especially neat that could be correlated to something predictable, like strikeout rate. Or if there was some year-to-year correlation going on (though that could potentially be park effects too).<BR/><BR/>Another approach would be to look at weighted frequency of innings by left and right handed pitchers, and compare that to BIZ distributions. You'd expect that if opposing teams were leveraging platoon splits, an all right handed pitching staff would have more balls hit to right field than a pitching staff that is 50/50 right/left.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, cool idea! Hope I can get to it relatively soon!<BR/>-jJustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07697776280178146413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23241716.post-33575627110247382302007-09-27T17:25:53.120-04:002007-09-27T17:25:53.120-04:00Awesome, Justin! Thanks for putting this stuff out there. <BR/><BR/>Have you ever thought about looking at how teams leverage their fielders? Say, for instance, that you have an awful fielding left fiedler, but you have a staff that doesn't allow a lot of balls in play to left (at least when compared to average) -- or something along those lines.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how you'd do it or if it's even interesting, but I was thinking about it the other day. Maybe you could look at balls in zone for an individual player (or position) per overall balls in play or something. <BR/><BR/>I don't know. Just throwing something out there. Anyway, great job.MBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333094423296039626noreply@blogger.com