Comments on: Tribe-o-Metrics http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=3637 A CLEVELAND INDIANS BLOG FROM THE ESPN SWEET SPOT NETWORK Wed, 22 May 2013 12:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ryan McCrystal http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=3637#comment-2241 Ryan McCrystal Sun, 06 May 2012 13:46:49 +0000 http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=3637#comment-2241 I agree that they are more subjective than other stats, but technology has improved the accuracy of fielding stats dramatically. The issue with saying you can remember runs he’s saved, is that you’re only remembering the plays on which he’s had the most direct impact. You’re essentially just counting web gems. Fielding stats today are able to more accurately compare players range, and account for balls that should have been reached. I don’t have access to those details, but I would guess this is where Kotchman is hurt… very similar to Asdrubal last year. He made plenty of web gems, but he also failed to get many balls that other shortstops were getting to which dragged down his fielding stats.

]]> By: medfest http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=3637#comment-2238 medfest Sun, 06 May 2012 11:52:36 +0000 http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=3637#comment-2238 Much as I hate Kotchmann,he’s saved at least three runs with outstanding to very good plays(just off the top of my head) that should be credited in his UZR,and it’s not like he’s been a statue out there at other times.

This is the problem I have with fielding metrics, they are judged subjectively and then given the patina of unquestioned accuracy by making it a “statistic”.

I scored games for the original Fielding Range project for Stats Inc. way back in the late eighties,early nineties and couldn’t believe the wide variance of opinions submitted on the same plays.

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