- EqAAR (Equivalent Air Advancement Runs) - Contribution of base runners advancing on fly outs
- EqGAR (Equivalent Ground Advancement Runs) - Contribution of advancement on ground outs.
- EqSBR (Equivalent Stolen Base Runs) - contribution of stolen bases including runs subtracted for caught stealings and pickoffs.
- EqHAR (Equivalent Hit Advancement Runs) - contribution of runners taking the extra base on a hit: first to third on a single, second to home on a single, first to home on a double.
- EqOAR (Equivalent Other Advancement Runs) - contribution of other base running advancements - passed balls, wild pitches and balks (evidence shows that those events are not entirely randomly and are influenced by base runners to an extent).
- EqBRR (Equivalent Base Running Runs)- the sum of the five above statistics above or total base running contribution.
- Number of opportunities
- Each runner is compared to league average for each situation mentioned above
- Base runners are penalized for making outs on bases attempting to advance
- Runners on base and numbers of outs before and after the play determine the run value
- Run value is also influenced by where the ball is hit - left field, center field, right field
Table 1 - Base Running Runs Above Average for Tigers in 2007-2008
| Player | EqBRR (2007) | EqBRR (2008) | EqBRR (two yrs) |
| Curtis Granderson | 6.42 | 5.96 | 12.38 |
| Gary Sheffield | 4.99 | -0.06 | 4.93 |
| Placido Polanco | 0.92 | 2.93 | 3.85 |
| Gerald Laird | 2.15 | 1.16 | 3.31 |
| Carlos Guillen | -0.17 | 0.86 | 0.69 |
| Adam Everett | -1.72 | 0.76 | -0.96 |
| Marcus Thames | -0.10 | -1.49 | -1.59 |
| Brandon Inge | 0.35 | -2.32 | -1.97 |
| Miguel Cabrera | -4.30 | -2.54 | -6.84 |
| Magglio Ordonez | -1.89 | -7.98 | -9.87 |
Great stuff, Lee. A couple things:
ReplyDelete(1) I wonder why BP don't have these data going back to 1954? It seems all you'd need is PxP info in which all the advancements or lack thereof are reflected. It's not like advanced fielding analysis, for which you need the camera system. Or am I missing something here?
(2) These figures reflect bottom line EqR generated, which is affected by playing time. How valid would it be review this info on a per-600 PA basis? I know that injury-proneness is always a factor, but a rare injury to somehow not otherwise prone may yield a projection for them that's ... ahem ... off-base. Valid?
Chuck, I'm not sure why BP only goes back two years. You are correct that retrosheet gives them all the info they need to go back to 1954.
ReplyDeleteAs for your second question, you would have to do it on an opportunity basis rather than a PA basis. This is a little tricky because you have to consider the opportunities for the five elements (air advancement, ground advancement, etc)first before getting the final number.
Opportunity basis -- interesting. OK, I get why, because you have to account for varying levels of performance across the league for each player's team, but how can you project opportunity level? I understand that different teams create different levels of opportunity because of the unique player makeup of the team. My question is, how do you factor the opportunity likelihood of the team into projections? Create a projected team figure of likely players on a roster and layer player projection onto that?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of something simpler than that:
ReplyDeleteGranderson had 46 opportunities to move up on a ground out and was -.1872 runs below average on that type of advancement. If he had the same opportunity rate over 160 games rather than 141 games, he would be -.1872*(160/141)=-.2124. Then you would do the same thing for all the different advancements and add up the results at the end.