Comments on: Baseball’s DNA? http://www.captainsblog.info/2010/04/14/baseballs-dna/299/ A Daily Look Inside The Yankee Universe (and around the world of baseball) Thu, 16 May 2013 22:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Derek Jeter Confounds Critics, Age with Historic Offensive Season « The Captain's Blog http://www.captainsblog.info/2010/04/14/baseballs-dna/299/#comment-24708 Derek Jeter Confounds Critics, Age with Historic Offensive Season « The Captain's Blog Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:16:31 +0000 http://captnsblog.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-24708 [...] Jeter’s defense has been the foundation of their jest. Putting aside metrics like UZR, which are inherently flawed, it does seem as if the Captain has lost a step in the field. Considering his range was never among [...]

]]> By: Could Steroids Push Bernie Williams’ HoF Candidacy Over the Borderline? « The Captain's Blog http://www.captainsblog.info/2010/04/14/baseballs-dna/299/#comment-33 Could Steroids Push Bernie Williams’ HoF Candidacy Over the Borderline? « The Captain's Blog Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:02:16 +0000 http://captnsblog.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-33 [...] hard to believe that Williams was that much of a liability in the field. Considering the many doubts about UZR (the fielding component of fangraphs’ WAR since 2002), it seems intellectually lazy to simply [...]

]]> By: WAR Is Not the New RBI (but It Has Its Own Flaws) | New York Yankees blog, Yankees blog, A blog about the New York Yankees | The Yankee Analysts http://www.captainsblog.info/2010/04/14/baseballs-dna/299/#comment-32 WAR Is Not the New RBI (but It Has Its Own Flaws) | New York Yankees blog, Yankees blog, A blog about the New York Yankees | The Yankee Analysts Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:01:26 +0000 http://captnsblog.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-32 [...] worth of data to be accurate. What’s more, because classification involves human intervention, inherent biases and user errors come into play. On that basis alone, the metric seems ill suited to be combined with more refined statistics that [...]

]]> By: WAR Is Not the New RBI (but It Has Its Own Flaws) « The Captain's Blog http://www.captainsblog.info/2010/04/14/baseballs-dna/299/#comment-31 WAR Is Not the New RBI (but It Has Its Own Flaws) « The Captain's Blog Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:19:43 +0000 http://captnsblog.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-31 [...] worth of data to be accurate. What’s more, because classification involves human intervention, inherent biases and user errors come into play. On that basis alone, the metric seems ill suited to be combined with more refined statistics that [...]

]]> By: On The Defensive: An Early Look at UZR Data « The Captain's Blog http://www.captainsblog.info/2010/04/14/baseballs-dna/299/#comment-30 On The Defensive: An Early Look at UZR Data « The Captain's Blog Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:09:57 +0000 http://captnsblog.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-30 [...] has released its first installment of 2010 UZR data. I am not a big fan of this metric for reasons previously outlined, but nonetheless, it is gaining prominence and is worthy of [...]

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