Comments on: Kansas City Royals 2010 Positional Review: Right Field http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365 Deconstructing The Process Tue, 14 May 2013 01:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Nick Scott http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365&cpage=1#comment-4089 Nick Scott Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:39:49 +0000 http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365#comment-4089 Thats a good idea andrew. If I have some time, I’ll put together a look at how positions have improved, regressed.

]]> By: Andrew J Overton http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365&cpage=1#comment-4086 Andrew J Overton Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:38:00 +0000 http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365#comment-4086 Thanks for the explanation Nick, and yes it makes good sense. I understand why you use it. Interested to see the year to year differences. Gives a good guide to look if we are improving at specific positions or regressing.

]]> By: Nick Scott http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365&cpage=1#comment-4085 Nick Scott Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:41:04 +0000 http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365#comment-4085 hi andrew, yes, I did these last year at http://www.brokenbatsingle.com.

sops+ is explained in the catchers post. the s stands for split in this case position. OPS+ normalizes the OPS and puts it in a form where 100 is roughly average. sops+ instead of taking all of the league, it just looks at that split. so a 100 sops+ means an average right fielder if we’re looking at RF, CF for CF…etc. That way we aren’t comparing catchers to third basemen offensively. Make sense?

]]> By: Andrew J Overton http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365&cpage=1#comment-4084 Andrew J Overton Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:37:23 +0000 http://www.royalsauthority.com/?p=3365#comment-4084 That really shows you how great of a season Dejesus was having before he got hurt. While he was healthy he was the number 3 or 4 rightfielder in the AL last season. I wonder what kind of haul we could have gotten for him had he remained healthy. Frenchy will be a OBP downgrade, but if he can bring up the SLG he might be an offensive wash from what the team did in the past season. Nick, did you do positional analysis in any previous years? Where can I read about sOPS+? Not sure what the s means.

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