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Ultimate zone rating (UZR) is a sabermetric statistic used to measure fielding. It compares the event that actually happened (hit/out/error) to data on similarly hit balls in the past to determine how much better or worse the fielder did than the "average" player. UZR divides a baseball field into multiple zones and assigns individual fielders ...
Wins Above Replacement or Wins Above Replacement Player, commonly abbreviated to WAR or WARP, is a non-standardized sabermetric baseball statistic developed to sum up "a player's total contributions to his team". [1] A player's WAR value is claimed to be the number of additional wins his team has achieved above the number of expected team wins ...
Baseball statistics include a variety of metrics used to evaluate player and team performance in the sport of baseball. Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and player activity is characteristically distinguishable individually, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and thus both compiling and compiling statistics ...
Baseball Think Factory, abbreviated as BTF or BBTF, was a sabermetrically -oriented baseball web site which featured daily news stories in baseball, with original content contributed by SABR members such as Dan Szymborski. The site was previously branded as Baseball Primer, and was created in 2001 by the founders of Baseball-Reference.
NERD (sabermetrics) In baseball statistics, NERD[a] is a quantitative measure of expected aesthetic value. NERD was originally created by Carson Cistulli [1] and is part of his project of exploring the "art" of sabermetric research. [2] The original NERD formula only took into account the pitcher 's expected performance [1] while a later model ...
Total player rating. Total player rating (TPR), also known as Batter-Fielder/Pitcher Wins (BFW/PW) is a metric for measuring the value of baseball players, and to enable players to be compared against each other even when they played for different teams, at different positions, and in different eras. It was developed by sabermetrician Pete ...
Sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics) is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the movement's progenitors, members of the Society for American Baseball Research ...
Power–speed number or power/speed number (PSN) is a sabermetrics baseball statistic developed by baseball author and analyst Bill James which combines a player's home run and stolen base numbers into one number. [1] The formula is: [1] (It is the harmonic mean of the two totals.) Power–speed number is displayed as a number with one digit ...