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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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191
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Type:
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Roundtables
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 1, 2011 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Sports
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| Abstract - #303439 |
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Title:
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Measuring Fielding in Baseball: Present and Future
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Author(s):
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Shane Jensen*+
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Companies:
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The Wharton School
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Address:
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Abstract:
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Fielding ability remains a difficult quantity to estimate in baseball. I present a sophisticated hierarchical model that uses current ball-in-play data to evaluate individual fielders. I will discuss continuing efforts to extend these fielding models to examine the evolution of fielding ability over multiple seasons. Many challenges in this area remain: our modeling efforts are constrained by the aspects of fielding measured in the current data. These limitations will be discussed with a look towards the potential availability of much higher resolution data in the near future.
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