Baseball Prospectus Basics

[OilCan]

I thought this would be an appropriate first thread. Basically, this is a link to BP's "Basics" archives. The Basics cover sabermetrics in general. Since I think this forum is intended in part for people to learn about sabermetrics, this link can provide a good introduction. There's good explanations of support-neutral stats, EqA, measuring pitcher usage, etc.

http://premium.baseballprospectus.com/archive.php?mode=action&column=31

[bigteethkeith]

http://baseballprospectus.com/current/

Here's were BP has a bunch of interesting stats.

[Rich]

BP Glossary of stats:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/cards/glossary.shtml#eqa

[RhodyYanksFan]

does BP use sabermetrics, or did they come up with their own kind/style of analysis based on the classic Bill James sabermetrics?

[NicktheStick36]

Sabermetrics is the scientific analysis of baseball.

So the answer to your questions are "yes".

[WiffleWOOD]

Originally posted by RhodyYanksFan
does BP use sabermetrics, or did they come up with their own kind/style of analysis based on the classic Bill James sabermetrics?

sabermetrics is just a term, it's not any defined set of statistics. BP uses both sabermetrics established by Bill James (win shares, runs created, etc), and some of their own (like VORP - value over replacement).

They also use a bunch of metrics for their projection system, PECOTA.


you can find out about all of those on the Basics page.