Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site csd2.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!csd2!dimitrov
From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: New Statistic?
Message-ID: <3900007@csd2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 12:16:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: csd2.3900007
Posted: Mon Jun  3 12:16:00 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Jun-85 00:57:35 EDT
Organization: New York University
Lines: 16

[]

Watching Keith Hernandez play has given me an idea for a new statistic
to measure fielding effectiveness. Call it Runs Saved. Say that a player
gets a run saved if he makes a play to prevent a run from scoring,
when a failure to make the play probably wouldn't have been an error.
What I have in mind is only the plays that directly prevent a run from
scoring, not the ones that, for example, prevent a runner from reaching
base who would later have scored. So your typical run saved play would
be: runners at second and third, Hernandez grabs a line drive over
his head - two runs saved.
Of course, we should also subtract errors a player makes which directly
allow a run to score. It seems to me that this would measure how good a
player is at fielding in crucial situations.

Isaac Dimitrovsky