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Activity Number: 175
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 7, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Sports
Abstract - #307647
Title: The Combination of Subjective Judgment with Statistical Projections in the Evaluation of a Baseball Player
Author(s): Sig Mejdal*+
Companies: St. Louis Cardinals
Address: 346 Dunsmuir Terrace, #3, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085,
Keywords: baseball ; player evaluation ; applied statistics
Abstract:

A few baseball teams, including the St. Louis Cardinals, have brought in quantitative analysts (i.e., scouts) to compliment their existing evaluation system. I will present processes I use to evaluate players' hitting, pitching, fielding, and base-running skills, along with a description of the limitations and difficulties associated with combining these objective measures with the long-standing subjective evaluations.

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