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Charles Saeger · February 17th, 2007, 10:37 AM

Not entirely relevant to the thread, but I thought I'd jump in here, and since I'm new, I avoided making a new thread, violating netiquette by hijacking an existing one.

Some folks know me from BFT, and I'm coming around here really to see if what Tango told me was true: folks would be interested in an open-source traditional statistics fielding system. (Sorry I took so long, Tango. Been both lazy and busy.) I have a system, Context-Adjusted Defense (CAD, Don Malcolm's title) that I have developed over the years, and I lack much of the expertise (database programming, namely -- I've done everything in Microsoft Excel, where I earn my daily bread so it's easy for me, but it has its limits) to develop it much further. There's an older version on BFT, though I've done work since then -- TangoTiger and Michael Humphries have seen a draft.

Thus, this is my feeler post. For what I'm looking out of this is a database of all players with defensive ratings, and what other folks can fix in various formulae and adjustments. (Among other things, I used a few seasons of Retrosheet data to make many of the tweaks, and ultimately, I have no proof that things stay constant from the 1970s NL backwards.) I almost surely have screwed a few things up, and there are areas (baselines most prominently) where I openly admit I have no idea what to do.

February 17th, 2007, 10:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
Charles Saeger Rookie Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4	Not entirely relevant to the thread, but I thought I'd jump in here, and since I'm new, I avoided making a new thread, violating netiquette by hijacking an existing one. Some folks know me from BFT, and I'm coming around here really to see if what Tango told me was true: folks would be interested in an open-source traditional statistics fielding system. (Sorry I took so long, Tango. Been both lazy and busy.) I have a system, Context-Adjusted Defense (CAD, Don Malcolm's title) that I have developed over the years, and I lack much of the expertise (database programming, namely -- I've done everything in Microsoft Excel, where I earn my daily bread so it's easy for me, but it has its limits) to develop it much further. There's an older version on BFT, though I've done work since then -- TangoTiger and Michael Humphries have seen a draft. Thus, this is my feeler post. For what I'm looking out of this is a database of all players with defensive ratings, and what other folks can fix in various formulae and adjustments. (Among other things, I used a few seasons of Retrosheet data to make many of the tweaks, and ultimately, I have no proof that things stay constant from the 1970s NL backwards.) I almost surely have screwed a few things up, and there are areas (baselines most prominently) where I openly admit I have no idea what to do. __________________ Hic sedeo, corde fracto, cacare conatus, sed pepedi.