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Baseball Prospectus - : Evaluating Defense (March 1, 2004)
Discussion ThreadPosted 10:16 a.m.,
March 2, 2004
(#11) -
cricketing baseballer
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Weren’t DFTs first described in the 2002 Baseball Prospectus?
And can one take UZRs back in time? If I understand the DFT system correctly, you can use them for 1903 or 2003, regardless. But can one do that with UZR? If not, that would render UZR somewhat “enigmatic” to me.
Also, while we are on the subject of fielding, why are people so dead set against Range Factors. The article highlights a lot of problems, but as a relatively quick and dirty solution wouldn’t a kind of RF+ system work? I only ask this because I’ve missed some of the debate on this, not because I’m carrying any torch for RFs (or DFTs for that matter).
Dick Allen - Rating footballers (alright, soccer players) (March 20, 2004)
Posted 1:30 p.m.,
March 25, 2004
(#3) -
cricketing baseballer
This could potentially make loadsamoney. Fantasy (rotisserie) football is a big thing in England, with many major newspapers offering big prizes in their competitons.
The main problem is, as we found out some years ago around Italia '90 time, that soccer fans don’t like to read very much. This may have changed, given the sales of of various soccer books have been better than before, and this would be perceived as useful by fantasy players.
I know this might not be quite what Rich was after, but I thought he might be interested if he didn’t know it already.