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Hoban - A player ranking (August 8, 2003)

Posted 11:55 a.m., August 8, 2003 (#1) - James Fraser(e-mail) (homepage)
  I'll offer this up too... From Hoban's author comments section at the onlince bookstore selling his product:
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Bill James on Evaluating Defense and the Author’s Efforts

SABR-L is the official website of SABR and the #1 place where serious baseball research is discussed by serious researchers. (It must be if baseball’s #1 analyst will participate.) During February/March of 2003, a discussion was held by members regarding WIN SHARES, the new book by Bill James. During that discussion, Prof. Hoban expressed some reservations about the way Mr. James assigned offensive and defensive values to some players.

Bill James posted some comments about this discussion. They read in part:
"Mr. Hoban believes (as I understand it) that he has a more compelling logic to assess offensive and defensive value. Well, somebody will, sooner or later; I wish him luck. I think that, as a whole--as a research community--we're finally getting some traction in this area; we are finally beginning to inch toward estimates of defensive value which will stand up to rigorous analysis. It is my impression that we still have a very long way to go, and that there are still some pretty basic questions remaining to be answered." "

DIPS bookmarks (September 13, 2003)

Posted 10:07 p.m., September 14, 2003 (#5) - James Fraser(e-mail) (homepage)
  Charles,

It would make sense, but I don't recall seeing such a study amongst all of those links (but I've only scanned through a lot of them). I'll let you know when I finish slogging through them.

James

Obscure Rule Flags Students Who Sharply Improve SAT Scores (January 21, 2004)

Posted 11:41 p.m., January 21, 2004 (#2) - James Fraser
  At McGill before every multiple choice exam we are warned that "The Exam Security Monitoring Program is in effect - this program compares student seating plans with unusual matched distributions of correct and incorrect answers. Evidence from this program can be used to corroborate or initiate a charge of cheating."... although I doubt it often gets used.