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For the eighth year in a row, I am once again asking for hardcore baseball fans to participate in the annual Scouting Report project, in which you evaluate the fielding characteristics of players on your team. If you have a few minutes, please drop by and evaluate your team.
http://www.tangotiger.net/scout/


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Mike Green - Friday, August 27 2010 @ 02:00 PM EDT (#221596) #
Thanks, Tango, as always, for spearheading this project.  The standard deviation scores are particularly interesting. 

It might be fun to attempt a positional weighting of the various skills (post-facto) to determine suitability for position. So, for instance, the speed/reactions scores would be weighted to be of more significance vis a vis arm scores for centerfielders as opposed to right-fielders.  This might give you some information about how Vernon Wells would rate as a right-fielder, instead of centerfield, or Aaron Hill as a third baseman instead of a second baseman. 

TangoTiger - Saturday, August 28 2010 @ 11:14 PM EDT (#221636) #
I've actually done exactly that in the past.

The only issue I'd have to include is putting in a huge downward adjustment for LH at 2b/ss/3b, and, I guess, a small one for catcher.

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