Subj : Baseball stats: offensive sabermetrics
To   : All
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Sep 05 2017 04:44 pm

Any baseball statiticians / sabermetricians here?

I have an idea/inspiration for (what I think is a new/better) offensive metric
with a working title of "realized potential at bat". I wouldn't want to
duplicate existing work and I'm aware that offensive statistics are a very
popular area of focus/work for new statiticians, but so far, I haven't been
able to find a single metric which includes the factors of my algorithm. I've
been looking at http://sabr.org/sabermetrics and the linked-to pages and
documents.

In summary, my metric (RPAB) would represent the amount of realized-potential
per plate appearance and average realized-potential of a player or group of
players over a selected period of time (e.g. game, month, season, career). The
RPAB would reflect the fact that for example, in many scenarios, a strike-out
is actually a better outcome (realized-potential) than a L/GDP. The resulting
metric is just a number similar to a batting average, but likely much lower on
average: 1.000 would represent a perfect RPAB and MLB averages would probably
be around .100.

Anyone have experience with sabermetrics want to discuss? :-)

                                            digital man

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